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It’s 2025, and Nintendo still hasn’t officially announced the Switch 2. The company has acknowledged some kind of new hardware , confirming it will be backwards compatible with existing software – but we’re still waiting for a reveal trailer, despite a spate of hardware leaks. Earlier in the week , photographs of the motherboard for the new system were allegedly dumped online, although their authenticity is still up for debate.
It has, however, sparked a series of discussions about how powerful the new platform will be. There are some disputes over exactly what chip the manufacturer is using and what this means for real-world performance, although it’s expected the Switch 2 will use some version of Nvidia’s DLSS technology to upscale images similar to PS5 Pro’s proprietary PSSR solution. But the question still remains: how close will the Switch 2 be to the PS4? This is a particularly pertinent detail when it comes to third-party support, because many major games are still releasing on Sony’s last-gen console.
There are some who are hopeful the Switch 2 will surpass even the PS4 Pro in performance, while others are sceptical it’ll match even the decade-old PS4. It’s worth remembering that the new Nintendo system will be a hybrid like its predecessor, and so will need to run efficiently in a handheld format. “There are so many rumours floating around about the Switch 2, but the funniest one is about it being as powerful as a PS4 Pro,” journalist Tom Warren quipped on X (or Twitter ).
“That is funny because it’s likely to be quite superior in many ways due to using modern Nvidia architecture with access to features the PS4 Pro does not,” Digital Foundry’s John Linneman responded . “As a portable device, though, it’ll be limited in other, different areas.” We’ll need to await official confirmation to know for certain, but one thing’s becoming increasingly clear among all of this discourse: PS4 will be one of the benchmarks used to measure the Switch 2’s performance against.
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