Nvidia’s big guy, Jensen Huang, popped up in a Nintendo gig—talking about this cool processor thingy in the Nintendo Switch 2. Yeah, this console’s coming out June 5, and Jensen’s all like, “It’s stunning! Smart and pretty, right there in your hand.” Not something you hear every day, huh?
So here’s Jensen on this “Creator’s Voice” thing they do, which—by the way—isn’t usually about tech stuff. And now, suddenly, there’s a partner talking hardware. Strange twist, really.
Oh, there’s a video somewhere on YouTube; don’t ask me if it’s worth watching. Probably is? Anyway, back to Jensen. He’s hyping up this Nvidia chip—like, calling it a “triple whammy.” Think: graphics that make your jaw drop, this ray-tracing magic, super dark blacks and bright whites, plus it’s all backward-compatible. Fancy stuff.
Nintendo’s team let slip DLSS is a thing here. Nvidia kept mum on the nitty-gritty specs in a blog—just mentioning RT cores. But they say the graphics are 10 times beefier than the old Switch! There’s also this AI jazz in the chip to tweak game graphics in real-time. Sounds intense, right?
And then, May came along—Digital Foundry spilled the beans: the heart of it is eight ARM Cortex A78C cores. That GPU? Kinda old-school, based on Ampere architecture. Memory’s decent at 12GB, spread between two 6GB LPDDR5X modules. They talk about this UFS storage—256GB, mind you. You can even slap in a microSD card, up to 2TB. That’s a lot of storage for… who knows what.
Weirdly, they babble more about Nvidia’s history with the first Switch and Satoru Iwata—Nintendo’s prez numero four—overseeing the OG console’s creation. Oh, he sadly passed before it came out.
Oh right, the price. Dropping at $449.99 on a Thursday. Or snag a Mario Kart bundle for $499.99 if you’re fast. Those pre-orders, though—blink and they’re gone. But maybe you’ll find one in a store. Maybe.
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