Welcome to the brand new Nintendo Future Hardware Speculation |OT| on Resetera. Your brand new home to discuss all of the rumors and speculation surrounding Nintendo's long awaited upcoming Hardware Reveal.
As a reminder, we have a Nintendo Community |OT2| where you can talk about more than just Nintendo's upcoming future hardware such as games, game related rumors, sales and other general thoughts as well.
About this thread, what can I expect from it?
Yes, we all know that Nintendo needs new hardware. However, please try to not troll or cause fights over what games you think runs perfectly fine, doesn't run well enough or spend your time in this new OT just trying to deter the conversations into a cycle of "no I think you're wrong" "no you're wrong, I'm right" regarding game performance on the current Switch Console lineup.
Yes, if people mostly agree that something is threadmark worthy it'll be threadmarked. I'll try to do what I can to make it as easy as possible for you to stay updated on any new developments, leaks or rumors that are genuinely reputable or people at least agree is worth pointing out for those who may just be entering the thread.
About Insiders and Hardware Speculation. Look, we all want the same thing. We all want the Nintendo Switch 2, Pro, Super Switch or whatever it's going to be called. That's the whole point of this thread -- to talk about whatever rumors various insiders are hearing. Remember to take everything with a grain of salt. Nintendo is pretty damn hard for anyone to exactly pinpoint. At this point in time, we hear so many new rumors about the "next Nintendo console" that insiders' details change weekly so, please don't get attached to any sort of speculation or rumors. It's only gonna cause pointless fights and end up burning yourself in the long run.
Be a good person! Remember, this thread is meant to revitalize Nintendo Hardware Speculation discussions which mean you'll be seeing people here who love and want the same exact thing you love or want, Nintendo! Or, at least the next piece of Nintendo Hardware. Let's try to keep it lighthearted and civil. Plus, lets try to do what we can to make this a genuinely positive and welcoming environment for one another rather than fighting each other or bickering about video game hardware.
Regarding making rumor threads outside of this one. Yeah, let's try to keep everything here for awhile. I know it's easier for some people to seem multiple threads but I promise that the threadmarks will be as organized as possible (plus we have the section below to keep up with updates as well). I think the only time we should make Nintendo Hardware Speculation threads is if we find something legitimately buyable, valuable or potentially breaking news. Then it makes sense to make a brand new separate thread for people who don't end up actively using this OT. Besides that, let's just talk about all of the rumors or speculation here.
Also for the sake of other's safety, let's try to not link any 4Chan stuff. I'm fine with screenshots but linking 4Chan is a risky move and we're better off playing it safe for everyone.
March 2022 NVidia Rumor & Speculation:
March 1 → FamiBoards: The documentation present in "nvn2" mentions that GA10F, Drake's GPU, has 12 SMs in total.
March 1 → Twitter: According to a picture provided by NWPlayer123, the codename for T239, which has been mentioned by kopite7kimi, is now called Drake, after Tim Drake, the real life alias of Robin, in the DC Comics universe. And the documentation in "nvn2" mentions that the T239's GPU's based on the Ampere architecture, supports DLSS 2.2, and supports RTX.
March 1 → Twitter: The source code for DLSS has been illegally leaked. And based on a picture provided by TechPowerUp, there exists a folder named "nvn2"; and inside the folder, there are references to NVN, the Nintendo Switch's API, on the file names "nvn_dlss_backend.h", "nvndlss.cpp", and "nvn_dlss.cpp", very strongly implying that Nintendo and Nvidia are indeed working on a new SoC for new hardware.
March 2 → FamiBoards: GA10F has 128 CUDA cores per SM, which means GA10F has 1536 CUDA cores in total since GA10F has 12 SMs. And the Tensor cores in GA10F are much closer to the Tensor cores on consumer Ampere GPUs than to the Tensor cores on Orin.
March 11 → FamiBoards: GA10F has a max memory bus width of 128-bit according to the illegal Nvidia leaks.
March 2023 Nintendo Hardware Rumors & Speculation:
Leak that got Pokémon Scarlet/Violet DLC correct, claims new Switch model will be released alongside DLC2
Jeff Grubb claims he has been hearing things about a possible Switch 2 announcement in late 2023
Reputable Chinese hardware production leaker (and forum) gets ¨Ninja´d¨ by Nintendo as Switch 2 rumors arise
Jeff Grubb: Whatever's next for Nintendo may not be a 'Switch Pro' or 'Switch 2', it may be something in-between to continue the Switch generation
September 2023 Nintendo Rumors & Speculation:
September 7 → Nintendo quietly showed the next Nintendo Switch at Gamescom, runs The Matrix UE5 Tech Demo with "Comparable" Graphics to PS5 via DLSS (source: Eurogamer)
September 7 → One 'Switch 2' demo is understood to have been an improved version of the Switch launch title Zelda: Breath of the Wild, running at a higher framerate and resolution than the original game did, on hardware targeting the new console's specs (but there was no suggestion the game will actually be re-released.) Another VGC source claimed that Nintendo showcased Epic's impressive The Matrix Awakens Unreal Engine 5 tech demo – originally released to showcase the power of PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X in 2021 – running on target specs for its next console. (source: VGC)
September 11 → BOTW was indeed running with DLSS at 4K60FPS (3.5 DLL installed seemingly?). BOTW has loading times eliminated (UFS 3.1 maybe UFS 4.0?). Matrix Demo was allegedly running with better RT than PS5/Series X (RTXDI? Lumen Improvements? Epic Settings?), but not using Ray Reconstruction. March 2024 is being chattered about a lot (Source: NateTheHate)
January 2024 Nintendo Rumors & Speculation:
January 3 → According to Kantan Games' Toto, the console could launch at $400 – $100 higher than the Switch launched at – and there's a chance its games could adopt the $70 pricing of PS5 and Xbox Series X. (source: VGC)
January 8 → Mainstream news outlet CNBC releases an article speculating about the Nintendo Switch 2 and how they think it'll launch this year, though nothing new was added to these rumors/speculation.
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