We’ve been talking about the Nintendo Switch 2 for a while now, and this has caused some discomfort among Nintendo Switch users as they believe it’s nearing the end of its life cycle. There is some truth in this, namely that the fact that we are already talking about his successor means that his lifespan is slowly coming to an end, but that does not mean that we are in for a radical and immediate transition. , Nothing is further from reality.

In an interview with Japanese media outlet Nikkei, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa confirmed that they are coming continue to support the Nintendo Switch in 2024 and 2025, meaning that even if the next-gen model were to launch next year, it would co-exist with the current console for around two years. This is something quite normal that we have actually already seen with Sony and Microsoft consoles.

For you, as a Nintendo Switch user, that means your console will be supported for several more yearsand during this phase You will continue to receive games and updates. If you were worried that your console would be left to fend for itself, rest assured, the Japanese company is aware that it has a huge user base and isn’t about to turn its back on them.

However, I cannot guarantee that the games you will receive will be exactly the same as what we will see on the Nintendo Switch 2, in fact I think it is very likely that some exclusives will arrive on the latter to increase interest from users and thus encourage them to jump to the next generation, but even in this case it is good news, because for the big N console it confirms a lifespan of about 8 years.

As for the Nintendo Switch 2, everything seems to indicate that the console will hit the market in the first half of 2024, although some sources point to the summer of that year, and that it will use a customized NVIDIA Tegra SoC. I already told you that it will not be possible to directly port a solution like Tegra Orin due to the TDP problem, but we could see versions of this adapted to a TDP of 15 or 20 watts it would work fine on a laptop.

The new SoC is said to have an 8-core ARM Cortex-A78 aa processor Ampere GPU with 1280 to 1536 shaders. This architecture is the same as NVIDIA uses in the GeForce RTX 30, which means it would have dedicated hardware to accelerate ray tracing and support DLSS Super Resolution and Ray Reconstruction.