Nintendo Switch 2 Rumored to Launch in H2 2024; OLED Version Already in Production
There's still a chance for the Nintendo Switch 2 to launch this year. Exactly two months ago, the Japanese publication Nikkei wrote that March 2025 was the most likely release window for the new console as it allowed Nintendo to produce enough consoles to sell to consumers.
However, Samsung leaker Connor (OreXda) wrote this morning on Twitter/X:
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The Nintendo Switch 2 is expected to launch as early as the second half of this year. Significant contracts have already been negotiated in the component industry for initial production.
- Tegra T239 - produced by Samsung Foundry 7LPH
- Display - Samsung OLED
- With the exception that LCD models may be released first (using Sharp Display)
From this information (which should be taken as a rumor, even though OreXda proved to know quite a bit about Samsung chipsets), we can guess that the OLED Nintendo Switch 2 is already in production but will be released sometime after the LCD model. An Omdia analyst also said earlier this year that the next Nintendo console would be released in 2024, equipped with an 8-inch LCD screen.
Let's recap what we know about the Nintendo Switch 2 from earlier credible rumors. The NVIDIA Tegra 239 SoC will combine Ampere GPU architecture with 1280 CUDA Cores and 8 Cortex A78 Arm CPU cores with 12 GB of RAM. Game cards should use a Samsung 5th Generation V-NAND with up to 1.4 GB/S Read Speed.
The console is expected to support NVIDIA DLSS Super Resolution and Ray Reconstruction (the Nintendo Switch 2 will also have hardware ray tracing capabilities, thanks to its GPU architecture), but not DLSS Frame Generation. Even with these technologies, it won't be able to match the performance of the lowest current-generation console, the Xbox Series S.
Even Valve's Steam Deck might well be superior. That said, Digital Foundry recently pointed out that it won't matter, as the Nintendo Switch 2 will receive games
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