Switch 2 Specs Fully Leak, and Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Care

The Nintendo Switch 2 is twice the console as the original Switch, not just in size but in hardware specifications as well. We finally have a full idea of what’s going on under the hood of the $450 handheld set to launch on June 5. The long and short of it is that the Switch 2 is good enough to play today’s games. So long as it hits 4K when docked and gives us unique games with beautiful visuals, “good enough” is all it ever needed to be. A report from Eurogamer alongside Digital Foundry’s latest video on the Switch 2 effectively confirm all the pre-reveal leaks we had about the handheld’s processor and other hardware specs. The original Switch ran on a custom Nvidia chip based on the Tegra X1 with just four ARM Cortex A57 cores. That system on a chip (SoC) was relatively low-powered, even back in 2017 when Nintendo brought us its first dockable handheld console. Digital Foundry’s Richard Leadbetter got his information off of shipping manifests and some other leaks, and collated with ... Read full article.