According to a new report by Bloomberg, Nintendo is hard at work in bringing a new SKU of its popular handheld-console hybrid Switch. Bloomberg is citing ‘people familiar with the matter’ as their source.
Nintendo plans upgraded Switch console and major games for 2021 https://t.co/Dz6J05riaX
— Bloomberg (@business) August 25, 2020
With next-gen home consoles of both Microsoft and Sony being the hot talk among gamers lately, a surprise third party has entered the conversation now. None other than Nintendo is apparently going to release a new Switch variant sometime next year.
One important thing here to note is that unlike the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, this rumored New Switch will not be a new platform. Instead, what we’re looking at is an improved and enhanced entry into the existing Switch ecosystem.
This strategy wouldn’t be out of the ordinary at all for Nintendo who has regularly pushed out upgraded revisions in their handheld business. The New 3DS for example went above and beyond by adding an entirely new second nub controller and vastly improved hardware specs even.
The Switch is only three years old by now but by virtue of having to work with massively limited power as a handheld and very limited space constraints in the small case, multiplatform releases have been a mixed matter.
For every incredible port like Doom or Witcher 3, there is at least the same number of multiplatform titles that never got a release on the Switch. This trend is only going to become more accentuated with the advent of the immensely more powerful next-gen consoles.
Hopes among Nintendo fans are of course that this new revision will allow for future games to make their way on Nintendo’s handheld. Today’s news talks about the new hardware focusing on 4K graphics and beefier specs which is promising.
With a proper Switch 2 coming the earliest in three years, it’ll be interesting to see how far Nintendo is planning to take the new SKU.
