We’re higher than six years into the Swap’s lifecycle. Whereas the console has confirmed in a position to providing good video video games nonetheless to this yr – you, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – you’d be hardpressed to find a participant who isn’t ready for Nintendo’s subsequent console. Whereas rumors proceed to swirl about what the Swap successor is likely to be and when it’s maybe launched, new critiques from Eurogamer and Video Games Chronicle say the company confirmed it to builders behind closed doorways at Gamescom last month.
Eurogamer says its sources say Nintendo confirmed companions tech demos designed to disclose how properly the Swap successor runs. Significantly, one in every of many demos confirmed was reportedly a “souped-up mannequin” of the Swap launch title, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Eurogamer notes this was solely a tech demo and by no means an indication that BOTW shall be re-released.
VGC corroborates Eurogamer’s story with its private sources, together with that Nintendo moreover confirmed builders Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5 tech demo, The Matrix Awakens, launched for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Sequence X in 2021, “working heading in the right direction specs for [Nintnedo’s] subsequent console” as properly. VGC moreover mentions the BOTW demo as properly, noting that the Swap successor ran the 2017 sport at a greater framerate and willpower than the distinctive launch.
VGC says The Matrix Awakens ran on the Swap successor using Nvidia’s DLSS know-how, which upscales choice and “superior ray tracing.” The publication’s sources say the visuals have been just like the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Sequence X/S’ capabilities, although it notes this doesn’t suggest the Swap successor shall be as extremely efficient as these consoles.
Nintendo has not formally talked about its plans for a model new console after the Swap, although completely different critiques have indicated it will be portable like the Switch and is targeting a release in the second half of 2024.
This follows critiques from last February the place Nintendo said the Switch was in the middle of its lifecycle. Nonetheless, this would possibly level out that if Nintendo have been to launch a model new console subsequent yr, it’d nonetheless assist the Swap for some time. Solely time will inform.
No matter its age, the Swap is doing merely top quality for Nintendo, crossing 111 million units sold this summer. Nintendo not too way back revealed four new pastel Joy-Con controllers, a model new Mario Kart 8 Deluxe bundle, two Animal Crossing: New Horizons Switch lite consoles, and a Mario Red Switch OLED for Super Mario Bros. Wonder.
[Source: Eurogamer, Video Games Chronicle]
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