 The September Nintendo Direct has been shared by a reliable insider alongside more info about the company's next console. A number of reliable sources have already claimed that the Nintendo Switch 2 had a secret showing at Gamescom in August, and now a third has added their corroboration and some additional details. Eurogamer and VGC both claim to have heard of the Switch 2 running Zelda: Breath Of The Wild at a higher frame rate and resolution, which alone sounds very intriguing. Now, a previously reliable Nintendo insider, Nate The Hate, has parroted these claims while adding a few other details he's heard, including how Nintendo has managed to reduce load times almost to zero. Nate The Hate says that the new hardware had Breath Of The Wild running at 60 frames per second at a 4K resolution. However, he says that the real focus of the tech demo was to 'illustrate improved load times.' The example he uses is the load times for booting up the game from the main menu. Whereas loading a save file could take somewhere around 30 seconds on the original Switch, Nate The Hate claims it was practically instantaneous on Switch 2: 'Load times had been erased.' He goes on to corroborate that The Matrix Awakens tech demo was running on the hardware too, adding that it featured 'very advanced ray-tracing' identical to what the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S are capable of. That doesn't mean the hardware itself, which is only a prototype, is literally as powerful as the Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 though and instead Nate The Hate suggests that the Switch 2 is somewhere below the Xbox Series S in terms of raw power. 'It's going to have more modern technology and that's where it can put up a fighting chance to compete with those more powerful systems, when it comes to resolutions and maybe even frame [rate] performance in some ca){kind=link}
The September Nintendo Direct has been shared by a reliable insider alongside more info about the company’s next console.
A number of reliable sources have already claimed that the Nintendo Switch 2 had a secret showing at Gamescom in August, and now a third has added their corroboration and some additional details.
Eurogamer and VGC both claim to have heard of the Switch 2 running Zelda: Breath Of The Wild at a higher frame rate and resolution, which alone sounds very intriguing.
Now, a previously reliable Nintendo insider, Nate The Hate, has parroted these claims while adding a few other details he’s heard, including how Nintendo has managed to reduce load times almost to zero.
Nate The Hate says that the new hardware had Breath Of The Wild running at 60 frames per second at a 4K resolution. However, he says that the real focus of the tech demo was to ‘illustrate improved load times.’