The Nintendo Switch 2 late launch may have brought some sort of hardware redesign that may impact the console's performance.

In the latest episode of Moore's Law is Dead Broken Silicon podcast, it has been revealed how some people at NVIDIA are confused that the next Nintendo console still isn't out, as the system was supposed to be released in 2023. While it is not yet known why the system still hasn't been released, there's the chance that this delay from the projected release window may have led to some changes to the system design that could impact its performance slightly.

The Nintendo Switch 2 was originally planned to use an 8 nanometers node, but this may have changed due to the console launching in 2025. Nintendo may also have moved to a smaller node, possibly from Samsung, for better power efficiency, more capacity, and reduced cost. As Moore's Law is Dead rightly points out, releasing a new system using a node from 2023 wouldn't be a smart move, as things have changed in the past few years. TSMC, for example, has improved its nodes since then, is charging less for them, and they are easier to produce. If a node shrink or any sort of hardware redesign was made to the Nintendo Switch 2, then there's the chance that it could hit around 4.5 teraflops in docked mode, as opposed to the rumored 4.0 teraflops reported some time back.

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This is interesting. So we heard it was 8nm. Months ago Necro Felipe from Brasil Nintendo printed all the expected specs. If we compare it to the shipping data components tracking by Famiboards, it's almost identical to what Necro Felipe said months ago.

One interesting thing was his specs had 4nm listed as the node. If you pair this up with Moores Law is Dead, he was saying it would run at really high clocks in docked. A die shrink would allow for better battery and higher clock speeds.

It's all lining up nicely, we had Tom Henderson from insider gaming saying that Switch 2 would be getting a lot of PS5/Xbox Series multiplats said he was really impressed by Switch 2 technology.

Midori has leaked that all Sega and Atlus games are coming to Switch 2. We also had Square Enix saying they were committed to multiple platforms for big games, including Nintendo platforms.

Microsoft will be releasing on it, a lot of MS games are already on Switch.

I can see Capcom porting most of everything they do. I'm surprised they didn't attempt proper ports of RE7 to Switch.

I never played an Intellivision, so I'm afraid I really don't know the first thing about it. I'd be down for Colecovision collection though.

4-day weekend for me starting tomorrow. I've been itching to play some SimCity 3000 lately. I found a widescreen mod I'm going to try..