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A weird thing happened this past year when Nintendo announced that new Switch hardware would be coming to market. The main draw was a new OLED screen, and upon further examination it was clear there were no actual power upgrades in the new unit, despite previous rumors that some were coming.<\/p>\n

Well, we may have a clearer picture of what happened now, and what’s going to be happening in the future.<\/p>\n

According to Digital Foundry, Nintendo was planning on doing a mid-gen Switch upgrade that everyone has been calling the \u201cSwitch Pro.\u201d However, those plans were ultimately scrapped and work instead shifted toward the next-generation Switch successor instead, which most would called the \u201cSwitch 2.\u201d<\/p>\n

DF goes on to say that no, we should not expect the next Switch in 2023, and that Nintendo is somewhat concerned about the launch of a follow-up system, given what happened between the massively success Wii and the disastrous Wii U. They don ‘t want to replicate that situation.<\/p>\n

It’s\u2026somewhat easy to see how we arrived here. The Nintendo Switch continues to sell massively well despite lagging behind competitors in power, where in some cases, it’s pretty much two full generations behind now. But the system and software are so good it simply doesn’t matter, so why waste time and resources on a partial upgrade when everyone is perfectly content buying the original?<\/p>\n

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Nintendo Switch OLED<\/p>\n

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As for the Switch 2 and Nintendo’s potential concerns about it, I think if they can avoid \u201cover-Nintendoing\u201d it, it should be fine. What I mean by that is the Wii U was a failure because it was not really a successor to the Wii, leaning hard on a brand new gamepad gimmick that never panned out nearly as well as the Wii’s motion controls.<\/p>\n

But this time around, it seems pretty clear what Nintendo fans want from a next-gen Switch. They literally just want\u2026a next-gen Switch. A Switch that has more power, even if it won’t come close to competing with the likes of PS5 or Xbox Series X, which no one expects. But the Switch’s hardware is badly, badly dated at this point, and while some developers can extract more potential out of it than others, across the board, it’s clear there are severe limitations because of the console’s age, and the fact that when it launched it was already<\/em> behind PS4 and Xbox One on the power front. Now it’s a full generation later, and that gap is a chasm.<\/p>\n

Again, the Switch 2 does not have to beat or even come close to matching PS5 or Series X power, it just has to be a significant improvement on the current Switch. Keep making the same games the same way, and it will be yet another megahit. No Wii U disaster to worry about. But we’ll see what happens.<\/p>\n

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