Work on a Nintendo Switch hardware revision, slated to
launch sometime in 2019, is currently underway,
The brief report, which went live early Thursday morning,
pins Nintendo's plans for a new Switch version (assumedly
compatible with all existing Switch software) in the "latter
half of 2019, perhaps as soon as summer." Everything we
know thus far appears to center on one part of the system's
revision: the screen. The WSJ cites "suppliers" as one
source of the leaked information, and the report's only
firm suggestion about changed hardware revolves around
the screen being upgraded from an older LCD
manufacturing process. (WSJ's report does not explicitly
narrow down its "supplier" sources as part of the screen-
production industry.)
One insight missing from the WSJ report is that Nintendo's
original primary supplier of LCD panels, Japan Display Inc,
made far fewer Switch screens in 2017 than it did in the
switch may be due to JDI shifting gears as a company and
focusing more on OLED panel production than on LCD in
the past year. That report did not hint at JDI making such
a switch in anticipation of Nintendo demanding higher-quality
panels for future hardware.
The WSJ report does not otherwise clarify what might change
in the next Switch, with details about processing power,
screen resolution, form factor, and compatibility with existing
Joy-Con controllers remaining unclear. "Nintendo is still
debating" what could come in a newer Switch, the WSJ says,
nd "cost" is one factor in the discussions.
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