There's yet another rumor in town, this time coming from Bloomberg regarding the upgraded Nintendo Switch model, aka the Switch Pro. Citing "people familiar with the matter" who asked not to be named since the plans are not yet public, the report mentions that Nintendo expects to start assembly of the upgraded Switch model as soon as July; with plans to launch the device in September or October.

Just like Bloomberg previously reported, this report maintains that the new model will pack a 7-inch OLED Samsung display, a faster NVIDIA chip capable of 4K output in docked mode. The cost is also expected to be higher than the current $299 tag. It will be sold alongside the $199 Switch Lite, while the standard Switch will slowly be phased.

Interestingly, the report mentions that, according to its sources, the announcement of the new hardware is "imminent" and could happen before this June's E3 to "allow publishers to showcase their full range of Switch games at the global event".

As for the commercial name of this fabled "Switch Pro", Bloomberg says that "only to a handful of people within the Kyoto-based company".

What do you think of this news? Is it yet another rumor not to be taken seriously or will we finally have a look at an upgraded Switch this year?

SOURCE

 

[whateverg1012]

Really hope it is OLED, the current IPS screen has very crappy black levels.

 

[ZeroT21]

Probably only available for scalper prices by the time it's out

 

[weatMod]

Burn in is overblown, it's not a real problem unless you really have a fixed image on it 24/7.

Regarding oversaturated colors my old LGC9 disagrees, colors match what you want to be displayed, if you want oversaturated it can do it, if you want realistic it can do it too.

I don't know about that , my nexus 6p got horrible burn in and faded colors after 2 years of use
video games are the worst thing you can put on OLED
you will have fixed images when playing games like status bars
my nexus 6p has the severe burn in where the nav bar is at the bottom

 

[console]

Awesome!!!

How much cores, RAM and storage? I would love to know about hardware info.

I wish next new Nintendo Switch Pro or later must have a least 8 cores at 3 GHz or faster to support 4K, GPU more faster speed with bigger VRAM?, 8 GB RAM - 16 GB RAM and 128 GB storage or more.

Cheers

 

[Deleted User]

Awesome!!!

How much cores, RAM and storage? I would love to know about hardware info.

I wish next new Nintendo Switch Pro or later must have a least 8 cores at 3 GHz or faster to support 4K, GPU more faster speed with bigger VRAM?, 8 GB RAM - 16 GB RAM and 128 GB storage or more.

Cheers

so a laptop?

 

[SG854]

If you don't care about burn-in or oversaturated colors, sure.
Also, a 720p screen is going to look terrible with OLED Pentile tech.

Oled doesn't have to be oversaturated. It depends on the calibration at the factory level.

Since this is a budget gaming system I expect Nintendo to use a low quality OLED screen.

--------------------- MERGED ---------------------------

Burn in is overblown, it's not a real problem unless you really have a fixed image on it 24/7.

Regarding oversaturated colors my old LGC9 disagrees, colors match what you want to be displayed, if you want oversaturated it can do it, if you want realistic it can do it too.

That's true I have a B9 and you can calibrate it to accuracy. But since this isn't a TV I expect Nintendo to lock us out of calibration settings. So we are stuck with whatever factory calibration Nintendo gives us.

 

[ZachyCatGames]

Awesome!!!

How much cores, RAM and storage? I would love to know about hardware info.

I wish next new Nintendo Switch Pro or later must have a least 8 cores at 3 GHz or faster to support 4K, GPU more faster speed with bigger VRAM?, 8 GB RAM - 16 GB RAM and 128 GB storage or more.

Cheers

Nvidia Tegra210b01 with 4 ARM Cortex A57 cores running at 1020MHz, 256 Cuda Core Maxwell GPU running at 307/384/460/768MHz, and 4GB of LPDDR4X running at 1331/1600MHz.
This “Switch Pro” is a meme kek.

 

[AkiraKurusu]

If it's immune to known exploits (definitely is), then I simply do not care at present. As soon as I can run Atmosphere and use Checkpoint, FTPD and EdiZon SE, then I'll be looking for one.

Why not QLED screen, though? Longer life than OLED, from what I've gathered.

EDIT: added word for clarification

 

[Kioku]

Deja Vu... Guess we'll see. Not sure if I'd buy it. Given how little I play my Switch now.

 

[mattyxarope]

I keep telling myself I won't buy it...but I know I will

 

[Kioku]

If it's immune to exploits (definitely is), then I simply do not care at present. As soon as I can run Atmosphere and use Checkpoint, FTPD and EdiZon SE, then I'll be looking for one.

Why not QLED screen, though? Longer life than OLED, from what I've gathered.

Nothing is immune to an exploit. One will be found. Unless you mean current exploits. Then, yeah...

 

[fadx]

Anyone looking to actually getting one of these might want to look into "streetmerchant" on GitHub because I can see getting one of these being a nightmare. I've had success with streetmerchant getting other consoles and I can imagine the Switch Pro is gonna be the same situation with scalpers.

 

[Something whatever]

Seeing how a game like Miipotia has leg issues, they really have no choice but to upgrade the switch hardware.

 

[ertaboy356b]

Hope they drop the previous gen immediately so that we can have better console ports.

 

[Rabbid4240]

Sheen, this is the 7th week in a row you said a Switch Pro was on the way.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Ah yes, releasing a new revision during a silicon shortage now expected to last until 2023 where they're already starting to have issues producing their current model, what could possibly go wrong!

Yeah, we'll see about that. Can't wait for upscaled 4k and nobody to take proper advantage of it just like the New 3DS and the DSi. Woooo!

 

[godreborn]

if the switch pro is ever released, I"ll probably sell one of my switches in order to buy one. I have a hackable switch (not hacked right now), animal crossing, and 3d world Mario switches. my main is the animal crossing one. I don't know if I can part with any of my switches though. it will probably be a while before I can buy the switch pro, or whatever it's called, anyway. I'm sure scalpers will buy them all up before I even have a chance. however, I got the Mario and animal crossing switches at normal price. I managed to get the Mario switch the minute it went on sale at Target, then animal crossing was from gamestop (pouch from Target though). fortunately, they made a lot of those Mario switches, so staying up past my bedtime to get one was unnecessary. I'm sure it will be necessary here though. :-/

 

[thekarter104]

And ofcourse another rumor...
Ofcourse.... Should retire from the internet altogether and sell my PC or something...

 

[limpbiz411]

we will see what E3 brings

 

[Nicholas1024]

I'm pretty sure this is fake. Most games don't even run in 1080p, so 4k wouldn't really help except in YouTube...