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Will be called the New Nintendo Switch 2, original Switch 2 will be renamed to the Old Nintendo Switch 2 like what happened to the 3DS line.
5nm Switch 2 SOC known as Shepherd is already finished as the original 8nm SOC chip is known as Drake.
Cheaper to make then the 8nm Switch 2.
Mostly a overclock of Switch 2 but with more ram (16GB, up from 12GB) and dedicated camera hardware to fee up CPU resources and so the cameras can run at 120FPS instead of 15FPS.
2.2GHz CPU, cache banks are the same (128KB L1 per core (64KB instruction and 64KB data), 512KB L2 per core and 8MB shared).
1.12GHz GPU for TV mode, 3.44TF, shader count is the same but has more cache (2MB L1 (1MB instruction and 1MB data) and 4MB L2).
Handheld mode is the same GPU clock speed wise.
256-Bit LPDDR5, 8533MTs, 240GBs in TV mode.
Handheld mode is the same but the bandwidth is now at 132.5GBs due to the 256-Bit ram bus.
1TB of built in storge, uses PCIe buses for speed, 3.9GBs read and 3.6GBs write.
SD Express has also been updated to use PCIe 5.0 speeds.
Game cards can take advantage of the faster PCIe bus.
DisplayPort bus is now at 2.1 so the bottom USB-C port's high speed lanes now run at 80GBs (Switch 2 only uses a DisplayPort 1.4 bus for it's USB-C port's high speed lanes).
Top USB-C port runs at 80Gbs (Switch 2's top USB-C port only runs at 10Gbs, enough for a 1080p Camera and a Gigabit Ethernet adaptor using a USB hub).
Screen is now OLED as OLED screen tech got better since 2023 when the 8nm Switch 2 was finished.
5 Hours of battery life at max settings.
Will see release by Q4 2027.
No lite due to low sales (on top of production costs going up to the point that a Lite won't save that much money in terms of production costs).
New Nintendo Switch 2 only comes in OLED.
Should cost $500 with tariffs.
Both New and Old Switch 2s will be supported just like how the New and Old 3DSs were both supported at the same time.