Digital Foundry’s John Linneman has revealed within the newest Digital Foundry Direct Weekly that he has spoken to quite a few completely different builders about whether or not or not a revised Nintendo Swap console remains to be within the works. From what he understands from the folks he has spoken to is {that a} revised unit was deliberate by the secretive Kyoto-based firm, however was finally scrapped. The explanations for this stay unknown, although it might properly have been as a result of COVID-19 pandemic which precipitated market turbulence worldwide attributable to element shortages, worldwide lockdowns and so on. Linneman believes that no matter Nintendo is planning to deliver out subsequent would be the full blown successor to the Nintendo Swap system which initially launched worldwide in March 2017.
“So I believe at one level internally, from what I can perceive from speaking to completely different builders, is that there was some form of mid-generation Swap replace deliberate at one level and that appears to be now not taking place. And thus it’s fairly clear that no matter they do subsequent goes to be the precise next-generation {hardware}.”
Digital Foundry’s John Linneman
Supply By way of
Associated
