Switch U! 2024! Get hype!
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Waiting for the Switch Pro is alot like waiting for the PS5 Pro/Slim.
I don’t know if you mean this as a thing that will happen or won’t happen. PlayStation has always released revisions throughout each consoles life.
PSOne has the the small white one you could use the flip screen for
PS2 had the slim.
PS3 had the slim and model K (slide top)
PS4 has the slim and pro.
PS5 will undoubtably have revisions as the tech involved becomes more available. A slim and pro aren’t out of the realm of possibility.
Even Nintendo has done console revisions.
NES had a top loader
SNES had the weird curved one
Wii had a revision at the end of its life cycle where it took out GC backwards compatibility.
The Switch just did a revision and an alternate console to use
Do we need to talk about how many revisions the game boy line of systems have had?
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Or 3DS.
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I mean if you keep waiting for the next version of a console, you be waiting forever.
I bring up the PS5 Pro/Slim as the regular PS5 vanilla is still a year or more away.
There nothing about a Switch pro other than unfounded rumors that been floating around for a year and a half now with no evidence.
We got already a slight redesign of the main Switch as certain parts became unavailable, and just happen to have slighty better battery life, and we got a Cut down and Cheaper Switch lite with fewer fractures.
I am not sure what people want to expect with a Switch Pro at this time? The 4K dock mode? 1080p @60hz hand held mode?
Isn’t PS5 scheduled to release this year?
Nintendo in a shareholder meeting said there will be no new Switch SKU this year. Nintendo ain’t going to lie to investors.
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Q4/Winter of this year. Yeah.
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Anyone expecting those things are idiots. Even if there was a Tegra capable of pulling that off, there isn’t, that would be Switch 2 tech. Right now, the best that could be done would be something around base PS4 level. This could change with a 7nm Tegra based around the upcoming Ampere architecture but I’d still find that highly doubtful.
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Managed to find a used but like new copy of Switch DOOM on Amazon. It will arrive Tuesday same as my copy of Langrisser I & II.
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I agree. The idea of a waiting for a drastically improved Switch isn’t going to happen soon.
If you going on a long flight, a High capacity USB battery bank is a better purchase than upgrading to a newer model switch.
My biggest issue is that people are literally looking for specs that aren’t even possible at present. Nintendo hasn’t went cutting edge since the N64. Even if they did go cutting edge, they won’t, a 4K Switch just isn’t possible right now…unless you want a Switch that has a 5 minute battery and is hotter than your dream girl of choice.
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And before that no console was ever actually cutting edge, they were intentionally nerfed to keep costs down. The $199 N64 was a watered down from $10,000+ Silicon Graphics Workstation.
The PS2 and OG Xbox was the first consoles that tried to actually tried step up in actual hardware power (and to a lesser extent the Dreamcast).
What if she was 2D? 
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The thing about a switch pro, is that it won’t be so super powered that it would be able to play games that the regular switch couldn’t. All you’ll get is maybe a smoother experience, which is definitely worth something, but I don’t know that it would be that big a jump.
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At this point a Switch Pro is pointless. Nintendo typically releases a new console after five years. There is no “Switch Pro” coming this year. So that means a Pro would launch in year 4, a year before its successor arrives. If there was going to be a Pro model it would needed to launch this year at the latest.
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Agreed. Plus, if they were going for that, it likely would have come out with the newer models they just released.
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Yep, they could have done what you suggested with the last revision. They chose battery life instead. The revised Tegra could have been clocked higher and maintained the original Tegra’s power draw.
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And the fact is anything they put out now with the current tech still isn’t touching PS5 or Series X so those developers or consumers that want a pro now would just be disappointed since it still can’t keep up with current tech.
There will likely be another revision of the Switch next year but the Switch Pro folk want can’t exist unless tech jumps an insane degree or Nintendo adopted some sort of Cloud structure to deliver their games and those of third parties.
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I think a Switch 2 could have a lot of potential. The Tegra X1 is actually isn’t based on the latest Nvidia tech. It is Maxwell based. That powered the 9 series Nvidia GPUs. They’ve produced the Pascal, Volta, and Turing (current) architectures since the advent of the X1. They are launching “Ampere” later this year and its going to be on 7nm process node. They could produce something far more substantial than the 20nm Maxwell based X1. I just don’t see Nintendo hopping on the latest architecture. Now in 2022, when Ampere is more mature, it would be perfect for a Switch 2. Even then, I think PS4 Pro level GPU performance would be best the case scenario. That said, the CPU would have significant edge over the Jaguar based architecture that has been holding back current gen.