As Nintendo will get nearer to unveiling its successor to the Nintendo Change, a latest leak revealed some doable particulars of the upcoming console. Following up on the leak, nonetheless, a brand new patent by Nintendo has been found which provides us extra particulars concerning the console.
Found by business insider Laura Kate Dale on BlueSky, the patent, which will be checked out on the official US patents web site, reveals particulars of how the Nintendo Change 2’s {hardware} decoder will work. It depicts a recreation’s engine seemingly working with a neural community to output graphics at increased resolutions.
Amongst different issues, the patent signifies that the Change 2 could have its personal tackle Nvidia’s DLSS characteristic, utilizing a particular chip developed by Nvidia, to run higher-resolution video games than can be doable on present Nintendo {hardware}. A few of the examples within the patent submitting point out outputting 540p photographs to 1080p, as an illustration.
One of many extra fascinating bits, as identified by Dale, is how this might be used to cut back recreation dimension, becoming them on “smaller capability bodily media.” “The instance given is {that a} recreation with native 4K textures may want a 60 GB obtain, however a 1080 native model may solely want 20 GB (which might permit it to suit on a 32GB Change Cart, the present max dimension Nintendo produces for Change 1).”
Whereas Nintendo itself is but to formally unveil a successor to the Nintendo Change, rumours have indicated that we’ll see the console introduced a while earlier than April.
