Nintendo may be preparing to make its Switch 2 console official. According to “industry murmurs” compiled by Eurogamer, as well as reports from The Verge's Tom Warren, the Switch 2 could be formally announced sometime this week . Eurogamer suggests that the reveal is scheduled for this Thursday, January 16.
The report also suggests that the reveal will primarily focus on the console's hardware design, with another gameplay-focused announcement coming later. Eurogamer reports that the console won't be ready for launch until April; This would be similar to Nintendo's strategy for the original Switch, which was announced in mid-January 2017 but didn't launch until March.
A lot about the physical design of the Switch 2's hardware has been thoroughly leaked at this point, thanks mainly to accessory makers who have been showing off their upcoming cases. Accessory maker Genki was at CES last week with a 3D-printed replica of the console based on reality, suggesting a much larger but still familiar-looking console with a similar design and button layout to the current Switch .
Inside, the console is said to sport a new Nvidia-designed Arm processor with a much more powerful GPU and more RAM than the current Switch. Dubbed “T239,” Eurogamer reports that the chip includes 1,536 CUDA cores based on the Ampere architecture, the same one used in 2020's GeForce RTX 30-series graphics cards in PCs.