New rumors about the Switch 2: The previously rumored Nvidia chip is confirmed again – this information should allow an approximate price to be determined
The most important facts in a nutshell
- Upcoming console to work with Nvidia T239 chip (manufactured in Samsung’s 8nm process)
- Graphics unit based on Ampere architecture with 1,536 CUDA cores
- Price speculation: between 399 and 499 US dollars expected
The rumor mill around the Nintendo Switch 2 continues to churn. After much discussion in recent days about the release date, which has probably been moved to 2025, the focus is now on the specs and price of the upcoming console
This should work with an Nvidia T239 chip, as was already rumored a few months ago. The leak about the SoC used has now been picked up again by YouTuber “Moore’s Law is Dead” (MLID)
Samsung’s 8m production is to be used for the Nintendo Switch 2 chip. This is the “cheapest price/transistor node on the market” and therefore the ideal choice for Nintendo, according to an Nvidia source quoted by MLID.
The T239 chip is said to be based on the Ampere architecture, which was developed by Nvidia as part of the RTX 30 series. A total of 1,536 CUDA cores are to be expected here
This means that the graphics performance of the Nintendo Switch 2 is roughly on a par with a Geforce RTX 2050, which was designed as a mobile GPU for laptops.
In view of this, MLID is also speculating about the price of the console. Based on Nintendo’s fundamentally “aggressive pricing strategy” and an RTX 2050 notebook as a comparison, the manufacturer could set the Switch 2 at an RRP of 349 US dollars and still make a small profit.
According to the YouTuber, however, a price between 399 and 499 US dollars would be more realistic, which would be a significant jump compared to the first Nintendo Switch at its original release in March 2017.
At that time, the console was released for an RRP of 299 US dollars; in this country, the original recommended retail price was 329 euros. If the increased sum is correct, we would therefore also have to expect a price of 400 euros upwards in the eurozone.
Would 400 euros for the Nintendo Switch 2 be too high a price for you? Or are there games and hardware that could convince you to buy the new console at a higher RRP? Let us know in the comments!
