The launch of the Nintendo Switch 2 could be delayed to the first quarter of 2025. Various information points in this direction, although this was not the original plan of the Japanese company. In theory, the launch of this console It was supposed to be produced sometime in 2023but Nintendo delayed the launch to such an extent that even NVIDIA would be confused.

The reason for this confusion is very simple, if the Nintendo Switch 2 was developed from the beginning with a plan to launch it in 2025, this console could improve significantlyand could have used a much more advanced knot. The source of this information says that this console will use a SoC made in Node. 8 nmand that if development were adjusted to launch in 2025, said SoC could make the leap to a smaller node that would improve performance, efficiency and costs.

There is a possibility that the Nintendo Switch 2 has undergone some type of change due to this launch delay to improve its hardware and bring it into a more 2025 configuration, but this is just a rumor so it is not guaranteed. Personally, and taking into account the cost of changing the node, I think it’s very likely that this console I ended up keeping the 8nm nodeand that there is no change in this sense.

What can we expect from Nintendo Switch 2

Right now, the information we have points to a pretty interesting configuration that would be a big leap over the current model. The SoC would be designed by NVIDIA and manufactured by Samsung in 8nm and should have an ARM processor with 8 to 12 cores. Your GPU would be an Ampere based solution customized by NVIDIA 1280 and 1536 shaders, compatible with NVIDIA DLSS Super Resolution and Ray Reconstruction.

This GPU will be able to accelerate ray tracing and will have a performance of approx 4 TFLOPs on FP32 work in docked mode, which would put it in direct competition with the Xbox Series S. In this mode, its operating frequencies will be higher and the performance will be better than portable mode, which is also happening with the Nintendo Switch. The graphics core will be supported by a unified memory system based on LPDDR5X.

Nintendo Switch 2 is expected to work between 8 GB and 16 GB LPDDR5X. Nothing is finalized yet, but the latest supply chain leaks suggest that this console could end up with 12GB of LPDDR5X. It would be the optimal configuration to move current generation games seamlessly.

The storage unit of this console will be of type UFS 3.1it will have a minimum capacity of 256 GB and offer sequential read speed 2,100 MB/s. This would put it almost on par with the Xbox Series X and Series S, as both have SSDs capable of reaching speeds of 2,400MB/s.

Overall, it’s important that even in the worst-case scenario, the Nintendo Switch 2 It will be a very big development. compared to the original model and that it will be a full-fledged next-generation console thanks to that NVIDIA GPU based on the Ampere architecture.

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