Nintendo Switch Pro specs, design, rumours and features

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(Pocket-lint) — Nintendo has added a third console to its Switch family — the Nintendo Switch (OLED model).

However, while it adds some neat new features — not least a 7-inch OLED display — it's not the much-rumoured Switch Pro we were all expecting.

We still expect Nintendo to eventually debut a more powerful version of the console, possibly even in 2022. Here, then, is everything we know about the Nintendo Switch Pro so far.

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A Nintendo Switch 2 or Switch Pro has been rumoured since early 2019, when The Wall Street Journal spoke to «parts suppliers and software developers» in March of that year. They claimed that an enhanced version of the Switch, aimed at the more dedicated, hardcore gamer was in development and could come out late 2019/early 2020.

But, while a tweaked version of the existing Switch ended up replacing the 1st gen model, Nintendo's president Shuntaro Furukawa felt it necessary to deny that a replacement or upgraded Switch would be released at that time: «Please note that we have no plans to launch a new Nintendo Switch model during 2020,» he said at the time. It turned out the be case.

Similarly, while Bloomberg later claimed a Switch Pro would arrive in time for the «year-end shopping season» 2021, it turned out that Nintendo had other plans. It announced the non-4K Switch (OLED model) instead.

That means we're now looking to late 2022 for a genuinely upgraded version at the earliest. Jeff Grubb from Venture Beat certainly still believes it is in the pipeline and could come next year.

I still have only ever personally heard 2022 for a Switch Pro. And if that still happens, I'll continue to speculate that will have 4K output with a significantly more efficient chip with DLSS.