While the Switch Pro rumors have been dying away for a few weeks, the Zelda Breath of the Wild 2 trailer just threw some fuel on the fire.
Does the Switch Pro halfway confirm the Zelda Breath of the Wild 2 trailer? That’s what many fans thought when they watched the previews, which aired when it was announced that it would be pushed back to 2023. Gameplay looked cleaner and better than it’s ever been “for a Switch game.” Finally, Digital Foundry’s expert eye agrees to say the same.
BOTW 2 on Switch Pro?
In its weekly show, the specialized media team returned to the postponement of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 and the gameplay shared for the occasion. Digital Foundry believes the trailer suggests the new snippets ran on a more powerful Nintendo Switch. For example, the page points to more advanced and unfinished technology on the current console.
In particular, he mentions the transitional scenesanti-aliasing high quality, visibility or inflexible volumetric clouds. So many elements that would push the console released in 2017 to the limit. In other words, the excerpts shown must have been recorded on more powerful hardware, the famous Switch Pro.
A cross-platform release?
Subject of long rumours, this improved version of the Nintendo Switch would be real. However, the media believes that Zelda Breath of the Wild 2 will not be a Switch Pro exclusive. Like its predecessor, the game should benefit from a cross-platform release with a more optimized version on the future console, with more graphical elements and details compared to the other platform.
According to a leak from Nvidia, depending on the school, the Switch Pro or Switch 2 would be based on the Ampere architecture, the latest from the American manufacturer. The new version of the console would integrate ray tracing and DLSS 2.2 and was able to rely on a more modern and more powerful Nvidia Tegra chip (T234 Orin or T239 Orin). For example, the SoC T234 Orin would be engraved in 8nm for 2048 Cuda cores, while the Nintendo Switch Oled’s Tegra T214 is based on 16nm and a 256-core GPU.
