Rumour: Supposed Images Of The 'Switch 2' Motherboard Appear Online

What’s crazy is that it came out on New Year’s Eve.

I'm pretty sure everyone will reveal the console before Nintendo does

inspects suspicious reflection on the Switch's screen

Yep, I'd know my uncle's fingers anywhere. This is 100% legit.

I‘m very interested in the upcoming analyses of tech pros for the different chips. Are these 48 GBit chips and the famous T239?

Well the big chatter is wether it’s got a 16gb ram chip (DDR5) or a 12gb ram.
Something to do with a Capcom suggestion?

No cartridge slot connector or ribbon connectors? I guess they could be on the other side but that will make repairs fiendish as you would need to plug them in with the board almost against the chassis as the ribbon cables are quite short. Maybe all the connectors are on one side so the board can fold out like it's hinged?

I prefer not to engage in rumors and speculation regarding the successor to the Nintendo Switch, be it the name or the specs. As it is, when I was at GameStop a few months ago, the store associate told me that their Nintendo rep specifically told them to NOT call it the Switch 2.

I encourage everyone here to temper their expectations by not giving much credence to these supposed “leaks” and rumors, regardless of how legitimate they appear to be, lest we all end up disappointed with the final product when Nintendo themselves finally pulls back the curtain.

oh dear, time for a lot of really stupid takes about the theoretical power of Switch 2 from people who know nothing about tech yet they pretend they do

This also could be a Dev kit with slightly higher spec components than the actual public release unit.

my hope is that its true it can competently and comfortably run PS4 games. if thats true then its enough for a huge array of content and ports. hopefully it arrives port heavy.

I read yesterday that some Chinese fella has a countdown timer that points to the 8th January. He supposedly leaked the last direct in full.

Don't have anything to back up that information expect hopes and dreams that this finally gets a reveal the speculation can stop and the pre-order bum fight begin!

do people know the cost to make a motherboard like this?

@BulkSlash There's a ribbon socket visible on the CPU image. I would assume they are all on that side since there will be more space on that side where the heatsink will sit. The side we can see in the main photo will be up against the screen.

You're right about the cartridge slot - that will be less repairable.

I'm really curious about the second USB-C port on the top. Hopefully, it's not just to connect wired controllers in table top mode.

Yeah well. I mean I'm a Nintendo fan. What excites me is to know how the next Mario game will play, not really what's in the damn thing.

looking at the motherboard there, the bottom left is card slot (THANK GOD) next along, maybe the charge port but that looks like a micro usb port? Just like the original Kindle charger, then at the top is a USB input.
Nah this is just bull in my mind

99% of Switch owners and upcoming Switch 2 owners will never see their Switch naked like this. Where's the censorship? Those chips made me blush.

I saw Astral Chain and got really excited

@Bunkerneath Yeah, the rumour is that it will have USB-C both on top and bottom of the device. Which would be very convenient.

@SillyG "I'd know my uncle's fingers anywhere" sounds insanely bad without context, lol.

@chardir Ah, that's interesting. The USB and Micro-SD ports were on the same side as the CPU previously, so I was assuming this was still that side. 😅

There's an absolute nanometer war going off on Twitter at the moment over this...

"8nm!!!"
"5nm!!!"

etc...who cares as long as the games are good.

A lot of these rumors can't be fake. Some look too legit in my opinion. I really don't know what some people were expecting with a new Switch. There's only so much Nintendo can do with a rectangle slab and detachable controllers. I only care about stick drift, better battery life, and more power. Any extra gimmicks really don't matter to me personally

Hi, Dave from Digital Floundering here. The Switch was so successful that Nintendo will be wanting to mimic it's success. As a result, the specs of Switch 2 will be the exact same as Switch 1. Genius. Nintendo engineers have worked around the clock to make more modern architecture perform at such low clocks. Is there nothing NVidia and Nintendo can't do. apart from holograms.

I mean, come on, it's going to be more powerful. Anything better than PS4 ports and the odd miracle PS5 port would be great. Anything less would be pretty much the Switch lol.

Hate to post it but all these silly rumors and speculation have dimmed my hype considerably. It’s the same story as the beginning of last year. Nothing has changed. Slow Nintendo news months, let alone days, don’t help.

I don’t care that much about the timing but for all of our sakes I hope the announcement is sooner rather than later.

It'll be tomorrow for sure

Heck yeah! Handheld PS4 Pro, here we come!

I reckon I'm actually ok with rumour / leak articles this year. It's getting close isn't it. You can smell it in the ai-OH MY GOD MY PC IS ON FIRE!!!

I don’t know what make of this as I’m too ignorant to have an informed opinion about motherboards… but I do think that now that we are in 2025 an official Nintendo announcement could be coming at any time. I think around the start of February is the most likely time but it could be sooner, especially if Nintendo is worried about the whole console leaking. I mean, it could even be next week for all we know.

Ugh...again...not much to go by. Can't believe EVERYTHING on the net...

This is getting annoying Nintendo needs to come out an announce the thing already… it’s always has been annoying how slow Nintendo moves to do things… Switch 2 announcement has been ruined due to all the leaks & Nintendo super slow way of trickling out new, games, announcements…

I remember when I worked for a distribution company who released retail and rental movies for the whole Scandinavian in 2004. We got the ultra-hotly anticipate Star Wars Trilogy DVD box like 4-5 months before its release.
The security and NDA's surrounding that product were rigorous.
Those who wanted to taking a glimpse of the DVD box gets fired immediately.

"Switch 2" is a potentially $10b product. So no way in the hell that Nintendo has been this casually then. It's the very same company who shoots down every fangames so fast it gets released in the wild.

Everyone (almost) does now anything for it's 16-minutes in the limelight. Everything this far has been fake, no doubt.
Otherwise Nintendo has sued them for breaking NDA by leaking.
People are so impatient and desperate now that so they believes in anything.

Also not a chance that it will be close to PS4 Pro. A hybrid console with that power level will easily cost +$1000 then.

There're some high-end handhelds out on the market who're at PS4 Pro's level and they costs a fortune (up to $1500 range). Switch were a such success thanks of its affordability.

We'll see who were right when Nintendo announces it in feb/mar. The full unveiling may coming out later.

But I'm still 100% sure of that it will be very different and a lot of less powerful than allt hose faked forged "leaks" this so far.

Again to last, Nintendo had NEVER allowed this if now it's real thing they were leaking. That everything (the "leaks") are still left unscratched on internet yet now. So nothing of value has been leaked yet.

Not everything on internet is true, don't forget it. Too many does anything for some clout nowadays.

Joy con Still can split But Add on support Mic and Speaker, VR Improve

@Not_Soos : Now that's what I call a family friendly joke.

I daresay a little too friendly...

Lol the more i read about "leaks" the more i think that Nintendo themselves are doing this as a marketing strategy 👏 now everyone knows what a Switch 2 is. Only thing they have to do is reveal the machine and some games 😂

@Keman What luck that Sony haven’t just set a precedent for a €1000 console then… oh

i take these rumors as a grain of salt.ill just wait for the actual info on it from nintendo themselves.

Based on folks doing investigations, it seems like the SoC is made by Samsung, BUT, it does not automatically mean it is Samsung 8nm. Size is still a factor, not to mention power consumption and thermals, and considering what is inside the chip besides a CPU and GPU, it doesn't seem it could fit into 8nm. Supposedly both 7nm and 6nm by Samsung are off the table because of them either winding down or have basically been delisted, so if not 8nm, then the most likely candidate is Samsung 5nm, which at lower clocks is not too far off from TSMC 5nm. The gap increases with higher clocks, but at that point, we're not worrying about portable mode.

rumors always have basis of truth these are reliable sources and i believe these nintendo youtubers..i been watching these numerous nintendo youtubers for years now and more often then not they are spot on..

How much slower is Nintendo going to be on revealing this thing so we can finally see these rumors end?

@KoopaTheGamer There are many theories on what the top USB-C port could be for. It may end up being just for charging when in tabletop mode, but then as I looked at it more, I was thinking it could also be to connect USB-C headsets if Switch 2 has voice chat straight from the console instead of requiring the NSO app.

Then I was also guessing it could be for a possible dual screen attachment allowing us to connect our Switch as a secondary screen, which would also be ideal if they bring DS games to NSO.

Not sure about this one, but a Switch 2 camera accessory may also be possible.

@Keman Those high end portables are made in relatively small numbers.

Nintendo has the advantage of buying tech in bulk which brings prices down.

It’s something to consider.

I don't care what the inside looks like, I only care what the outside looks like. The outside matter the most when it comes to these things. Besides Nintendo would never show us what the inside of their console would look like and they're not gonna start doing that ever. This image is a fake. It looks like something Alejandro at SuperSPGA would show.

Mother[board] of God, people, it's January 3, the middle or at least tail end of winter holidays in many parts of Europe, don't you have a backlog to cuddle up with instead of leering at "leaks" even now? Or has everyone really exhausted the available Switch library this side of Hentai Clock Manager 2025?

This confirms it. The Switch successor will play games!!

I had hoped the power would have been roughly Series S, but figured that was optimistic at best lol

I don’t necessarily care if this is true or not. That pretty much goes for any of the alleged leaks thus far. I have no preconceived desires or expectations. I will say just the whole chatter over the Switch Deux in general is exciting. Just the build up in anticipation that at some point in the near future, we are getting a new console reveal.

@PikminMarioKirby We’re getting closer and closer. It’s just inevitable at this point.