It seems that Nintendo hid an important project from us and the Switch Pro In reality, it would have existed and it was not just a rumor that could never be verified. At least that just gave us a glimpse of an important revelation made by Digital Foundry.
We all remember that prolonged moment between 2021 and 2022 when multiple reports began to circulate that affirmed the existence of an alleged Nintendo Switch Pro.
Following the same logic as Sony and Microsoft, apparently the Japanese company was supposed to be creating a new, more polished and up-to-date model of its portable console.
In March 2021 For example, there was talk that the Nintendo Switch Pro would have a 4K screen and that it would be manufactured by Samsung to start marketing the following year.
But as we all saw this never happened and a new model was not released to face the graphical power of all the other competing platforms.
Now we finally have answers, and it seems that all that year of unconfirmed rumors actually had a basis.
Nintendo killed the Switch Pro to create its next generation of consoles
John Linneman is a more than recognized name for those who closely follow the trajectory of Digital Foundryan in-depth technical analysis project that has become an obligatory reference within the gamer community to verify the authentic graphic power of games and consoles.
Well, this company spokesperson has just participated in the most recent video podcast of said site, participating in a question and answer session.
Where when answering about the hardware that the Nintendo Switch 2 would have, he ended up revealing that at some point there was a Pro version:
“I think that at some point, internally and from what I’ve been able to learn from talking to different developers, there was indeed a kind of model with intergenerational improvements of Switch planned. And, it seems, that plan has been scrapped.
So what’s clear is that the next thing they’re going to do is their next-gen hardware, and I doubt it’s coming in 2023. What’s more, Nintendo seems a little nervous about transitioning between consoles because, let’s face it, the last few transitions haven’t been. went very well.”
In other words, there was a Pro model at some point but Nintendo abandoned the project to focus on the replacement of the Switch under pressure not to repeat what was experienced with the Wii U.
They have plenty of reasons to be nervous.
