© Nintendo LifeNvidia – the company that produces the “Marko Tegra X1 system on a chip” that powers both Switch and Switch Lite – seems to be finishing SoC production this year, fueling more speculation that a Switch Pro is on the way.
The news comes from Gamereactor, who spoke to a source close to the matter. The source claims that the production of Tegra X1 Mariko will end in 2021, but did not explain what chip would be replaced in the Nintendo supply chain.
It’s fair to assume that Nintendo will make sure it has a healthy stock of Mariko Tegra X1 chips before production ends, but it begs the question – if the report is true and Nintendo believes the Switch is only halfway through its life. , what happens beyond this year?
A logical answer would be that Nintendo will gradually eliminate the original Switch model and its “Lite” brother in favor of the new versions of both models, as it did with 3DS and 2DS when New 3DS and New 2DS became available.
While Switch Pro has not yet been officially confirmed and Nintendo has no plans for new hardware in the near future, a report that it has placed a large order for OLED panels manufactured by Samsung suggests that an updated hardware SKU is in place. truth on the road; an improved SoC made by Nvidia would be a fairly reasonable inclusion to expect if the console will provide an increase in performance over the original version.
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