The Nintendo Switch OLED hardware has the technological options to include 4K resolution, although it is not executable at the user level.
In the Nintendo environment, the information begins to focus on the possible launch of Nintendo Switch 2, which could have leaked one of the main functions of its architecture. However, the hybrid console of the big N continues to enjoy good health on its way to becoming the best-selling machine in history, with 122 million units so far. Now, however, it has been discovered a most interesting detail about Nintendo Switch OLEDthe model with the improved screen of the current console.
And it seems that The OLED model of Nintendo Switch is fully prepared to adopt 4K resolutionalthough you better not get excited, since not applicable or executable for the user. There are several clues that point to this fact, as indicated by Nintendúo’s colleagues, highlighting the console update 12.0 which included a mention of 4K, discovering certain connections designed for this type of resolution. However, the thing does not stop there, but version 10.0 added the line of code “external_display_full_dp_lanes”exclusive to the OLED model.
A line of code that was continued with the aforementioned 12.0 update, where it was indicated “4kdp_preferred_over_usb30”something that has remained as a disabled option since then. Therefore, the Nintendo Switch OLED architecture seems prepared to be able to play content at this resolution, although they will not be executable in the current model, since the main chip of the same impossibility that the games can be executed with so much power.
Nintendo Switch 2 could have problems with backward compatibility
as we said, The news of the Japanese company focuses on the successor to the current console, so Nintendo Switch 2, or whatever you want to finally call it, seems to be just around the corner. In fact, a lot of information assures that its launch will take place in the first quarter of 2024. Among some of the information that has emerged in recent weeks, it is ensured that the new console could be having problems with the backward compatibility of the current model.
So we will have to wait and see what details Nintendo reveals when the official announcement of the successor to Nintendo Switch takes placesomething that could happen at its June event, where the company’s news in the coming months will be announced.