Rumor: two Switch hardware revisions entering production

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According to the Wall Street Journal, Nintendo is currently moving its production sites away from China, to an undisclosed location in South East Asia. The reason behind this move is the trade war between China and the US, with tariffs now applying to all Chinese-made electronic products. The WSJ is also revealing that two new models have entered production: a new, more powerful system that will resemble the current one; and a second "lite" model that will be sold at a cheaper price and look somewhat different.
The Wall Street Journal reported in March that Nintendo planned to update the Switch this year with two new models. One is set to look similar to the current model with beefed-up components, while the other is expected to be a less-expensive model with a new look.
People involved in the supply chain said production in Southeast Asia has started for the Switch, including the current type and the two new models, suggesting Nintendo is getting ready to introduce them soon. They didn’t give specific volume figures but said Nintendo wanted to have enough units to sell in the U.S., the largest market for videogame consoles, when the new products go on the market.
This has not been confirmed by Nintendo yet and nobody yet knows when these two new models will hit the market. But if this comes true, will The Witcher 3 run at a higher resolution than 540p on the new, more powerful model? Time will tell. Which of these models are you more likely to purchase?

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according to the WSJ it's not going to work like that and all newer 3th party games will only work on the switch pro while games made by Nintendo will work on both systems. If they would do that i'm not supporting them ever again since i don't condone anti consumer practices

I tend not to believe everything the WSJ, or for that matter most any publication, prints. As a rule of thumb, I will read the articles, but I'll apply my own sense of realistic expectations and read between the lines. It's served me well for 30 odd years. After all, we shouldn't believe everything we read, lies spread quicker than the truth ever does.
 

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I tend not to believe everything the WSJ, or for that matter most any publication, prints. As a rule of thumb, I will read the articles, but I'll apply my own sense of realistic expectations and read between the lines. It's served me well for 30 odd years. After all, we shouldn't believe everything we read, lies spread quicker than the truth ever does.
i didn't say that i believe it, just stating what they said and my reaction towards that
 

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Isn't this like the 10th time the WSJ has claimed this? I mean, if they claim it every two months, they're bound to be the first to report on this piece of news when it eventually happens...
 

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Isn't this like the 10th time the WSJ has claimed this? I mean, if they claim it every two months, they're bound to be the first to report on this piece of news when it eventually happens...


Clearly working on the, it’s better to be wrong a few dozen times, than last to report it, system :D
 
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Isn't this like the 10th time the WSJ has claimed this? I mean, if they claim it every two months, they're bound to be the first to report on this piece of news when it eventually happens...
guess they figured out that it gets them good traffic whenever they say it, anything for those sweet sweet clicks
 

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Tegra X1 and Shield TV were first released 2015. You sure you aren't thinking of the AMD APUs in PS4 and XB1? Because those are actually hardware from 2011..

And yet, the hardware of supposed 2011 produces far superior graphics than the hardware from 2015, does say a lot eh?

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I just really hope that game ports will be more optimized on the more powerful hardware

of course not lol, it is nintendo, if they are anything, it is lazy with patches and aftersales of their games.
It still has pretty much no 3rd party support aside from indie garbage and will stay that way for the rest of its life, just like the wii, just like the wiiu.
 
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The Wall Street Journal also said that the new models were gonna be announced by this summer and they haven't announced anything at E3.

I dont know, they have been like this for months, and to pull it again at the end of E3, for me they are just telling the people who don't have a switch already "don't buy one right now, wait for the revision" and who know when that will happen...
 

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That's good. I will look forward to Nintendo Switch Pro only. I would like to know how many cores and how faster GHz speed, maybe more system ram like 8 GB RAM or above. Hope all games running at 60 fps. If new hardware maybe allow us to select different screen resolution size between 1080p, 2K or 4K in system setting for to play games. I wish need have hard drive to put in system to hold many large different kind of game files than flash memory built in it. I heard next new Switch models maybe have 128 GB memory NAND built in it, but still too small memory is not good for us. We want hard drive or SSD to put in Nintendo Switch Pro system would solve our storage problems. That's why storage capacity is very important to us and always grow up to bigger then huge capacity to hold plenty of games on them without have delete old games again, again. Hope have bigger battery capacity than old Switch to run more longer time like 11 hours and above compare to Nintendo 3DS XL/New Nintendo 3DS XL. Also Nintendo Pro controller must have big battery capacity to run 11 hours or above are approve. If battery running few hours are not approved for us. If not meet hard core gamer requirement for many hours then weak system will be ignored or we could skip buy lousy/weak hardware to wait on next new hardware generation. If hardware is still lousy then we have right to refuse buy lousy/weak hardware! It know quality problems must improve to make all gamer happy.

Switch Mini is not important to us are adults. Just for kids only can enjoy with Switch Mini.

Will 6 TB Western Digital Blue 3.5 inches desktop to fit in Nintendo Switch Pro system? Yes or No

Good idea or not. We have wait to look at new hardware pictures when company release out on internet if we can insert computer hard drive in Switch Pro system or not. Wait and see if it true or not.

If few upgrade on some hardware parts are not enough, I can skip and get Nintendo Switch 2 instead of Pro. I guess Nintendo Switch 2 maybe will have own hard drive come with system and we can swap to install 6 TB or above hard drive/SSD to put in it. Similar to PS3/PS4/PS5 allow us to swap different hard drive/SSD.

I'm glad to skip Nintendo Switch because hardware is not powerful enough. I have my own PS4 is more powerful than Nintendo Switch and can run 60 fps and 1080p gaming all of times. My PS4 controller battery last about 11 hours without voice, without vibrate, and very low blue LED light setting. I play PS4 games sometimes like 14 hours - 18 hours a day. PS4 support up to 8 TB hard drive/SSD (both internal and external hard drive/SSD). I'm look forward to PS5 system in next year 2020. :)

That is why Switch run on locked 30 fps due to hardware limited. I dislike locked fps is one problem to limit speed load on any games.
 

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I'm glad to skip Nintendo Switch because hardware is not powerful enough
You shouldn't be glad to skip it ther first party stuff is still up ther with the best games but yeh we need someone to be in charge of Nintendo who thinks power like say a Donald trump
 

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What a good job of twisting Nintendo words, New York Times! Nintendo confirmed they are moving production out of China to two different locations. One of these was revealed to be South East Asia. The other location wasn’t revealed.
 

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I want a Switch Pro so I can transfer my account and saves to it, and then use my regular switch as a piracy machine without worrying about getting banned.
 

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Idk, this whole thing seems semi-off to me. You'd think if they were gonna release a new revision anytime soon it would've been announced at E3. Maybe it'll be out around Christmas?

Nintendo don't really do this. Hell, they've actively denied new hardware was coming... the day before it was announced. They don't really follow anyone elses rules. E3 was packed for them as is. Have to be careful not to steal your own thunder.
 
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