Gadgetory

this morning the Wall Street Journal reported that Nintendo is supposedly working on a new model of the switch dated for sometime next year possibly as early as summer now this is something that we've been long speculating about I feel like almost as soon as a half a year after the original switch came out a lot of people already wondering well what would they do if they made a new version whether that's a excel a pro pocket some kind of new version what could they improve now so far based on what the Wall Street Journal is reporting the only thing that's really been talked about from Nintendo is the idea of improving the screen with better LCD technology the main two takeaways from would be potentially a better battery life and a brighter screen but those kind of changes alone don't exactly justify an entire model refresh so let's talk about what other changes Nintendo could possibly be making for a new Nintendo switch now when we're talking about the switch it's important to note that the switch itself is really just the tablet portion of the system I know often times people picture it as one whole unit when it's in portable mode but really that's the joy Khan's being attached to the switch and their own kind of separate thing and that partially influences what Nintendo could potentially do with a new one we'll get to that a little later but for now let's just talk about what kind of changes we could see happen with the main switch body first we've already mentioned the fact that it sounds like Nintendo wants to give it a brighter screen but another possibility is a larger screen as well now it's not very likely that they'll increase the size of the switch unit itself because that kind of messes with the whole dynamic of having joy Khan's that can slow on to the side unless they make large icons but then that's a whole thing with where the new stuff doesn't match up for the old stuff and that's just a whole issue that I'm hoping doesn't happen but assuming that it is maintaining the same general portions and sizes it's still possible that we could get a larger screen size by reducing the bezel because the bezel on the switch is fairly large noticeable so it is something that we could see a little bit bigger physically another possible change that I would personally love to see I mean once again this has always been one of the biggest nitpicky arguments about the switch itself but let's change the kickstand please somehow maybe something that doesn't it quite as easily break off I mean I know the idea is that if it breaks off it's easy to reinsert but if that happens multiple times it gets the point where it's just this thing that doesn't sit right let's just let's just overhaul that whole system please now physically that's honestly it on my for requests like I said I don't think we can do things like make it a larger or smaller body because then that gets a no whole territory of actually being a separate system from the current ecosystem but there is some stuff internally we could change for instance I really would like to see just a bit more power in the system I'm not talking about some kind of major overhaul we're getting some kind of 4k supportive switch which would actually be really cool but you know something a little more realistic I just want a little more power for the sake of just smoothness of gameplay you know there's a lot of games right now that aren't fully optimized for either portable or home there are games where portable is great and then if you're playing on dock mode you're getting small frame rate reductions there's other games where if you're in home mode it looks great but then if you're doing things handheld there's resolution drops and just all kinds of issues so we can just get just a little more power to even out a lot of those issues I would really like that now the other big question is what happens to do it cons themselves are we gonna see any kind of revision for those if there's a new switch because once again we still run into the same problem of if we want to make sure that any kind of new stuff still works with older current switch stuff they have to be roughly the same size still or at least have the same kind of rail size to be able to attach to the side of the switch but there's another limitation to worry about with joy clones as well and that's a Nintendo's obsession with the ability to use them as their own singular controller when held sideways because there's a lot of stuff that might make a lot of sense when you're using the switch in handheld mode or using a pair of droid cons at the same time that doesn't necessarily make sense for using a single jerk on on its own part of the reason right joy clouds aren't quite as comfortable as they potentially could be is because Nintendo wants to be able to hold them like this or like this but it's like I said they dropped the idea of having both those options available a pro option could offer a better more contoured grip design that could make them way more comfortable in either situation we're using two at once something that's a little more unlikely but I think maybe possible is also adjusting the size of the Droid cause once again you can't mess with it too much because you want to make sure that it can still work with modern systems at least I hope that's something that Nintendo cares about but all that really matters for droid cons the slide on the switch itself is that the rail sizes of match up so as long as the rails are right you could potentially make a larger droidcon as well for those people that find the smaller size to just be way too uncomfortable now another big question is if this actually is happening we're getting a kind of revised switch what is it going to be called Nintendo doesn't have a deep history of revising systems when it comes to their mainline consoles but they have done a ton of revisions when it comes to handhelds and based on we've seen in the past with those there's really kind of two forms of launching a Nintendo uses either they take the simplest route possible and just call it something like the new version for instance if this new switch has nothing noticeably super-different about it they could just call it the new Nintendo switch and honestly I'm leaving that be most likely answer however something else that Nintendo has also done is if there's any kind of major significant noticeable change they'll name it after that specific change whether that's making it larger calling at the switch XL making a smaller calling of the switch pocket if it offers 4k they could call it the switch 4k any kind of combination like that depending on what that most significant change is could influence the name look there are a lot of things to in Tendo could possibly do with your revised switch and I think everyone has their own wish list of things they would like to see or think really need to change honestly personally I'd lean towards the idea that I really think Nintendo's probably going to be somewhat minimal with it I don't think they're looking to radically change the design of the switch or how it works I think if anything we're just gonna see things like better battery life brighter screens hopefully larger screens and just in general some performance ups would be really nice but we don't know yet we're running off very little right now and hopefully we're gonna find out more soon