Nvidia’s big honcho, Jensen Huang, really laid it on thick about the processor in the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2. He says it’s all about power, smarts, and style, which sounds pretty cool if you ask me. The console’s hitting shelves on June 5, and folks are buzzing.
Anyway, Huang popped up in this special Nintendo video—kind of unusual, right? Tech specs aren’t usually their chatting point, nor is involving other partners like this. Honestly, it’s part promo, part tech fest.
There’s a video link somewhere here—can’t say I’ve watched it, maybe I should, but hey, time is a construct. Huang’s all about these new breakthroughs: flashy graphics on mobile (still wrapping my brain around this one), ray-tracing in real-time, HDR doing its high-and-low dance. And yep, it’s backward compatible or something. But whoops, Nintendo had already spilled the beans on DLSS. Nvidia kept mum on specs; they’re all like, “We’ve got RT cores and 10x graphics performance,” a bit chest-thumpy if you catch my drift. Oh yeah, AI magic to jazz up games as you play. Fancy stuff!
Go back a sec—last month, Digital Foundry spilled the deets: eight ARM Cortex A78C cores (sounds like a sports car engine, right?), Nvidia’s Ampere graphics tech, and there’s like, some memory wizardry happening. 12GB on a 128-bit interface, supposedly impressive.
It’s packing 256 gigs of storage plus a microSD slot for up to 2TB more. Funny how even consoles can’t dodge the “need-more-storage” drama of our times.
The video veers off—sudden, I know—to talk about Nvidia’s role with the original Switch. Plus, a nod to Satoru Iwata, Nintendo’s big boss who sadly didn’t live to see the Switch take off. That got me somewhere sentimental…or maybe just teary.
Price tag’s $449.99. But if you’re feeling splurgy, a bundle with Mario Kart World is $499.99. Pre-orders were gone faster than I eat tacos, but hey, there might be some left at the store if you’re feeling lucky.
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