Switch Pro Reportedly Has USB 3.0, Ethernet Port, Stand Similar to Surface - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 August 2021 / 4,056 Views
There was a report earlier this week that cites multiple sources who claim the Nintendo Switch model, being dubbed the Switch Pro, will release in September or October and assembly will start as early as July.
Spanish video games website Vandal has released its own report on the Nintendo Switch Pro potentially revealing new details on the console.
The Switch Pro will come with a new dock that is a little bit wider at the rear than the current one. It will include two USB 3.0 ports and an ethernet port.
The Switch Pro itself will be a very similar size to the original Switch. However, it will have a larger screen that will eliminate the black frames around the edge. It will also have an OLED screen, which will be higher quality than the current LCD screen.
The Switch Pro will also be compatible with current Joy-Cons, as well as other peripherals. The console will also have a new stand that is described as being similar to Microsoft's Surface.
The sources told Vandal that the Switch Pro is in the final production process, however, it might not launch in Europe until the end of November. They also claim there will be a lmited number of consoles available at launch compard to previous Nintendo launches.
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Please give us the better stand, would make table top mode much more viable. An enhanced dock would be very much welcomed.
Agreed. The current stand is a joke. I imagine they're broken off of most Switches owned by kids.
uh its meant to snap off so it doesn't break lol. you can just snap it back in
Sounds like the features that should have launched with the console in the first place.
Not sure why you got downvoted for posting common sense.
In 2017 at twice the cost
ethernet and a usb port means "twice the cost?"
also the CPU and GPU from the Switch is from 2014, with a half memory bus, normally consoles launch with 1 year old hardware, so perhaps 2016 CPU and GPU (which would have been twice as fast), at the same low price
personally since the Galaxy S7 was over a year old when the Switch launched, I was expecting something S7 level in performance, not S4 level
And battery life with that CPU and GPU? 1 hour?
The Tegra X1 was from 2015 NOT from 2014. It was released quarter 2 2015 so by the time it was included in Nintendos Switch it was still under 2 years old. Your comparison with a phone is naïve considering phone components can afford to be more cutting edge as the cost for the consumer is primarily spread across a 1 to 2 year contract making it affordable as opposed to consoles which are generally bought up front in one go hence the need for affordability to be a much more significant consideration for a console maker.
Bit of a naïve expectation to be fair. A 4K capable mobile GPU back in 2017 wouldve been way too expensive and wouldve majorly impacted Switches ability to have mass market penetration. Nintendo took the right approach by releasing something capable and affordable then factoring in a mid gen refresh when prices for components were more reasonable. Got to look at the bigger picture.
Umm, what? Where does this article or my comment talk about 4k? I'm talking about basic features like an Ethernet port and a decent stand.
Here’s hoping it really has a good upscaler so BOTW (among other titles, but this one is my favourite) can look crisp and clean on a 4K TV.
BOTW’s sequel should look and run great if it’s made to harness the extra horsepower offered by this new iteration of the Switch. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if the console was designed out of necessity from Nintendo’s own dev teams, and especially Aonuma’s. Games like the successor to BOTW may not need PS5/XBox SX kind of horsepower, but there’s a limit you can add on top of what BOTW already did to push things further on the Switch. Things like physics, and their ties with gameplay mechanics, enemy AI, and all the other subsystems in place, in such a vast open world already pushed the Switch hard and the game really doesn’t run flawlessly at all time.
If Aonuma and co are pushing things even further using the same blueprint as BOTW, then I would expect the [original] Switch version to run similarly to the Wii U version of BOTW. A “Switch Pro” would make sure the vision from their devs doesn’t need to be compromised, and that’s not mentioning third parties, which should have a better time figuring out how to port their current and upcoming games to gimped hardware.
its nvidia, they are at the forefront of AI upscaling, it just needs tensor cores baked in.
I usually disregard rumors when they are just one of. That said, when you get a cluster of related rumors within a couple of days of each other from multiple credible sources like this, it gets a lot harder to dismiss. It really sounds like Nintendo is doing what we all hoped that they would do: releasing a 4k Switch with an upgraded screen. I really hope that they can get production of the new model up in time for Christmas.
An ethernet port? Welcome to the mid-2000s of video game hardware, Nintendo. Glad you finally made it. Let's add online that finally meets or surpasses original Xbox and Xbox 360 Xbox Live while we're at it as well.
I mean the gamecube also had one as a add on so
4k check, bigger better screen check, better stand check. Now just waiting to hear about bluetooth support and larger storage size. If they do both of those Nintendo pretty much just did all the obvious stuff that anyone could have pointed to the past couple years. Not that that's bad, it's great!
Here comes the scalpers with their autobots rolling out hahaha
Zelda in 1080p60 would be nice! I don't care about 2160p30.
I just hope they sort out the audio as well as drift con issues. I'm also hoping the screen fares better in sunlight.
Definitely not the drift if it's allegedly still compatible with current joycons. But even revised joycons might not help. The quality of the parts needs to improve across the industry.
Oh ok. So now the rumors are turning into the wishlist features for the revision. Cool.
Essay Pro