Nvidia’s head honcho, Jensen Huang—yeah, the big guy himself—was talking up the processor in the Nintendo Switch 2 before it drops on June 5. He’s all jazzed about how it packs “performance, intelligence, and beauty in the palm of your hand.” Quite the sales pitch, isn’t it?
He popped up in some “Creator’s Voice” piece Nintendo threw together. Normally, they don’t spill the beans on tech stuff, so having other folks chime in? That’s a bit out of the ordinary for them. Makes you wonder what’s cookin’.
Anyway—or wait, maybe I’m getting ahead of myself—the clip even touched on Nvidia’s role in the OG Switch and gave a nod to Satoru Iwata, the late Nintendo president. That got me a little emotional, not gonna lie.
Now, Huang was going on about the new chip being this trifecta of awesome: top-tier mobile graphics, proper ray-tracing, deep shadows, bright highlights—you get the drift—and oh, backward compatibility. DLSS got a mention too, but he didn’t dive too deep there, just some tech-y mumbo jumbo like “10x the graphics performance” of the old Switch. Like, whoa!
And there’s more—AI processors to jazz up your gaming in real-time. I didn’t know I needed sharper gameplay until now.
Digital Foundry spilled some beans in May. Turns out, there’s stuff like eight ARM Cortex A78C cores, courtesy of ARMv8 64-bit, plus a GPU that’s last-gen Ampere, with 12GB memory on a 128-bit interface. If any of that made sense, maybe you’re a tech wizard. There’s 256GB storage but you can pop in a microSD card, beef it up to 2TB. Enough space for games you’ll probably never finish. We’ve all been there.
Oh, the price? Starting at $449.99 when it hits the shelves Thursday. Chuck in Mario Kart World? That’ll set you back $499.99—but only for a hot minute. Pre-orders vanished faster than free pizza, but if you’re feeling lucky, check the stores on launch day.
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