It looks like new details have leaked! You’re probably still very much aware of the announcement of Nintendo Switch 2 and a Direct in June, which came to us along with the updated sales figures for Switch and its games. Along with that, we offered you the updated release schedule, but it’s now that we might have more official news.
You already know that the president of the company, Shuntaro Furukawashared the first details of the console and described it as a “model”. Now, after some rumors that are already circulating after its official announcement, as well as the announcement of its first official games, we now have new reports about its main features.
The information comes from Moore’s Law is Deadwho leaked PS5 Pro details in the past. Now he has spoken out about the successor to the Nintendo Switch 2, sharing all of this in his new video via Wccftech:
- The Nintendo Switch 2 was designed to have better performance in TV mode than its predecessorwhile maintaining good efficiency in portable mode.
- Their information suggests that the console will increase your performance and improve battery life in portable mode.
- In portable mode, it will operate at 5 watts with a fanless cooling solution.
- In TV mode, it will work between 15 and 30 watts with a suitable cooling solution.
- Moore’s Law is Dead compared the successor’s energy efficiency to the Steam Deckstating that the Switch 2 is competitive in efficiency.
- The Switch 2 should be able to run All games that run on Steam Deckalthough with some important differences:
- Less powerful cores than the Steam Deck chip.
- Games that run at 90 FPS on Steam Deck will run at around 60 FPS on Switch 2.
- Games that run at 60 FPS on Steam Deck will run at 40-45 FPS on the Switch’s successor, with VRR for smoothing.
- Thanks to the GPU and NVIDIA DLSS support, the Switch 2 will likely run games a a higher resolution and with ray tracing.
- The Switch 2 will be a significant improvement over its predecessor.
What do you think about this information about the successor to the Nintendo Switch? Feel free to share it in the comments. As for the most recent rumors about the Switch 2, after learning its possible name and details about its price, we learned the report about its controllers and other details.
There was also another one that placed the successor in 2024, as well as the one about the additional buttons and the possibility of it having ray-tracing.