According to comments made by Furukawa during Nintendo’s recent shareholder Q&A, the plan is to utilise the existing Nintendo Account system to make the jump to the next generation as smooth as possible for customers. Here’s part of what Nintendo’s president had to say, courtesy of a translation by Twitter user Genki:
Shuntaro Furukawa: “As for the transition from Nintendo Switch to the next generation machine, we want to do as much as possible in order to smoothly transition our customers, while utilizing the Nintendo Account.”
I just hope it’s fully backward compatible, and they keep the hybrid design. I love it. Rest they can play around as they like.
All nintendo has to do is make a higher resolution OLED display, a bigger battery, and a modern day chip. Heck, they can even go Snapdragon.
More memory storage would be great too, especially if the trend towards digital only distribution continues. I’d prefer continued commitment to physical media, but now publishers are even pushing it more towards the disk/SD card basically just holding DRM for a game you still have to download, not to mention DLC and updates. I don’t even have a particularly large Switch library but my 128 GB SD card is filling up fast.
I am digital only, and my 200GB filled up fast. The only silver lining is, since Switch doesn’t support 4K, the size of games is smaller, so it can still have lots of games installed.
Nintendo invested quite a bit in their NVN api from Nvidia so I would imagine they would like to keep that going for at least another cycle. It would also help with ensuring developers are still comfortable developing the system for potentially both the new and older models.
That’s what we want, but it’s Nintendo, they are going to do some “nintendo magic” with it. So, I am only hoping they don’t change the basic things.
The hybrid design is probably the way they’re going to go. I’d love a higher spec one that isn’t though, even if it’s just a pipe dream. The ideal set-up for me personally would be:
“New Switch Lite” - Undockable, permanently handheld, like the Switch Lite but with better hardware.
“New Switch” - Dockable, again like the Switch, but better hardware.
“New Switch Pro” - Undockable, permanently docked, better hardware than the New Switch.
New Switch obviously not the best name, but my creativity is bankrupt. At least it’s not Switch U.
Just saving this comment for when “Switch U” is officially announced in April 2024 😅
It is Nintendo after all
They lost 90% of their sales the last time they added that letter, I doubt the would do it again.
Switch V.
Super Switch would be cute.