The rumors surrounding the Nintendo Switch Pro have just taken on a whole new dimension, since the very informed Bloomberg site has just released its information around the next model of Nintendo’s hybrid console. Contrary to what one might have thought, it was not Jason Schreier who released the scoop, but two other journalists who work with him, Takashi Mochizuki and Sohee Kim. These are formal, Nintendo does indeed intend to release what insiders call the Nintendo Switch Pro at the end of 2021. This new model of the Switch would operate a hardware update, with the arrival a whole new screen. It would be larger with a diagonal of 7 inches (or 18 cm) instead of the 6.2 inches (15.7 cm) of the classic Switch, and the 5.5 inches (14 cm) of the Switch Lite. But its particularity is to offer a 720p OLED panel, manufactured by Samsung, with which Nintendo has approached in recent months. According to information from Bloomberg, the Korean manufacturer would be ready to launch mass production from next June, with the goal of manufacturing 1 million OLED “Switch Pro” screens per month, just to have a stock available for its release scheduled for the end of 2021.
The advantage of this OLED screen is to offer a better quality in terms of images (we will see a clear improvement compared to the liquid crystal screen of the classic Switch), will offer a more assertive contrast, more colors. brilliant and above all a much better autonomy. Despite these hardware novelties, Bloomberg specifies that the console will continue to display games in 720p in portable mode, while a 4K upscale would be provided when the machine is connected to the TV, which means that Nintendo will probably change the dock for this. new model. Should we expect a better processor with this “Switch Pro”, knowing that the NVIDIA Tegra chip is not capable of displaying 4K as it is. The Nintendo Switch celebrated its 4 years of existence yesterday, and the technological gap with the next gen consoles that are the PS5 and the Xbox Series X is increasingly being felt. It makes sense for Nintendo to update its hardware so that its games can improve in quality, especially open world titles which require much more resources. When we know the ambitions of the next Zelda Breath of the Wild 2, it is not impossible that Nintendo will take advantage of this new model to present its game in a different light. And when you know that the Switch is only in the middle of its cycle, as CEO Shuntaro Furukawa has said, it’s a safe bet that Nintendo needs this little hardware boost to finish the career of the Switch on a better basis.
