Nintendo switch 2 It’s actually still a mystery, which is normal, considering the great secrecy with which the Japanese company usually approaches the development of its own products, be it consoles or video games. The latest rumors coming from South Korean media outlet Chosun Biz suggest that the big N video game giant is in talks with Samsung Display to implement an OLED screen in its future console.

South Korean media say so Negotiations with Samsung for the Nintendo Switch 2 to have an OLED screen began on the 1st of this month (December 1, 2023). Initially, the two companies had Chinese-based screen maker BOE in mind, but Samsung was sued in June 2023 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas for allegedly infringing five of its OLED-related patents. display.

Samsung accuses the BOE of infringing five of its patents after selling panels like those used in the iPhone 12 and next-generation Apple smartphones in the United States. In addition, the South Korean corporation also filed a complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) against BOE and eight other companies, including its subsidiaries, for trade secret violations.

Back on topic, Nintendo and Samsung would apparently consider having BOE as a component supplier for the OLED screens that would be implemented in the Switch 2 units, however, due to lawsuits filed by Samsung against BOE, In the end, Samsung Display itself, a subsidiary of the South Korean giant in the field of displays, would be responsible for the production of OLED panels..

It’s important to keep in mind that this doesn’t mean that the Nintendo Switch 2 will feature an OLED screen exclusively, but that it may be a variant of the console that would be accompanied by another with an LCD panel.

On the other hand, leaker Revegnus has announced that the Nintendo Switch 2 could launch earlier than expected in April 2024, which would correspond to the beginning of the fiscal version of the same year. This brings us back to previous rumors that pointed to marketing starting early next year, which could be pushed forward by six months if we see fall marked as a possible launch date.

In short, Nintendo is Nintendo with its usual mystery. The only thing that can be considered almost certain about the Switch 2 is that it will use an NVIDIA SoC based on ARM architecture, with many features, including DLSS and backwards compatibility, still up in the air, although at first glance it looks like the question is, as it arrives, and the latter would be very surprising if it were not there, especially when we see that we are facing a product that aims to be conservative at the level of architecture and basic technologies.