Images appear that could reveal the appearance of Nintendo’s next console

In a known subreddit A social network dedicated to providing shelter to rumors and leaks about the video game industry, a series of images have been published from a Chinese social network that supposedly belong to the prototype of the next Nintendo console. With this presentation many will doubt the reliability of the captures, but things change when a source of VGC He claims that the console design we can see in them matches what Nintendo has conveyed to its partners regarding the appearance of the hardware.

The images show a console with an 8-inch screen, magnetically attached Joy-Con and revised SL/SR buttons, as well as USB ports on the top and bottom. The hardware design doesn’t differ greatly from the Nintendo Switch OLED Model (which has a 7-inch panel), nor does it stray from the hybrid model that allows the device to be placed on a base to play on a TV, in tabletop mode, or do so anywhere as if it were a portable device. The console has yet to be unveiled, but if this design is confirmed, Nintendo Switch 2 would undoubtedly be an appropriate name.

Where we should expect big changes is on the inside. Now we’re entering (or still entering) a slippery terrain with speculation, but rumors speak of a console with 12 GB of RAM, compared to the 4 GB of the original model, 256 GB of internal storage instead of 32 GB and HDMI 2.1 connection. There remains the important question of the chip, which should be from Nvidia to facilitate backward compatibility with the current (and generous) Switch catalog. Rumors speak of an Nvidia T239 with a file decompression engine.

Any doubts will be dispelled when Nintendo presents the console during the current fiscal year that ends on March 31, 2025. The little that the Japanese company has said about its new console is that it will be “the next Switch model.” These words fit perfectly with the images that have been leaked today, since what we see in them could well be a new model of the current console.