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Nintendo Must Hate Its Fans
The Nintendo Switch (OLED Model) is the most ridiculous console “upgrade” ever.
For the last several months, credible rumors have been swirling around about an impending update for Nintendo’s popular Switch console. These were not mere internet speculation, but rather reports from respected news sources that had multiple independent confirmations courtesy of a leaky supply chain.
A Nintendo Switch Pro would make a lot of sense right now. The Switch is built around Nvidia’s Tegra X1 APU, a processor/graphics combo that first launched way back in 2015. Nintendo and many third parties have achieved miracles on this hardware, crafting beautiful new worlds and releasing “impossible ports” of graphically intense PS4 games. But the hardware was already getting old when the Switch came out four and a half years ago. Breath of the Wild didn’t have perfect performance at launch in spite of Nintendo’s genius army of coders, even at 720p in portable mode. Countless current Switch games struggle to hit their framerate targets no matter how many cuts are made to the visual fidelity.
And then there’s the competition.
