Nintendo Switch 2 Isn't Even Out Yet, but Report Claims Samsung Keen to Provide OLED Screen in Future Refresh

Nintendo Switch 2 is inactive weeks from launch, and yet a cardinal electronics spouse is already reasoning astir the console's inevitable aboriginal hardware refresh.

That's according to a caller study from Bloomberg, which states that Samsung is pushing Nintendo to incororate its OLED screens successful the adjacent mentation of Switch 2, whenever it appears.

Remember, of course, that the motorboat mentation of Switch 2 features an LCD surface — which immoderate spot arsenic a flimsy downgrade from the show boasted by the Switch 1's aboriginal OLED model.

At a Switch 2 property lawsuit attended by IGN earlier this year, Nintendo said it had not made the determination to efficaciously power backmost from OLED to LCD screens lightly.

"Now there's a batch of advancements that person been made successful LCD exertion during development," Nintendo Switch 2 hardware plan pb Tetsuya Sasaki explained. "We took a look astatine the exertion that was disposable to america present and aft a batch of information we decided to instrumentality to LCD.

"Even with the OLED mentation of Nintendo Switch, we didn’t person compatibility enactment for HDR, but that's thing we person the enactment for now."

In immoderate respects, connection of a Switch 2 refresh astatine immoderate constituent successful the aboriginal shouldn't beryllium a surprise. Nintendo ever launches caller versions of its consoles aft a mates of years (well, usually — sorry, Wii U).

The proposition of an improved Switch 2 refresh with an OLED surface would besides simply beryllium pursuing the aforesaid signifier Nintendo utilized with Switch 1.

But possibly don't cancel your Switch 2 pre-order conscionable yet. There's nary telling erstwhile Nintendo volition really determine to motorboat a caller Switch 2 exemplary — particularly now, arsenic request for the motorboat mentation looks apt to stay entity precocious for a signficant period, and affordability of each console present a cardinal issue.

Nintendo volition lone motorboat a caller Switch 2 erstwhile it volition beryllium assured it tin manufacture, vessel and merchantability it astatine a terms it believes customers volition buy, and beryllium blessed to wage to upgrade from the basal Switch 2 model. Remember, also, that the Switch 1's OLED exemplary didn't crook up until October 2021, 4 years aft the console's March 2017 debut.

In different words, portion Samsung whitethorn beryllium readying for Switch 2 OLED, you astir apt request not be.

Elsewhere successful Bloomberg's report, Samsung sources stated they believed the institution had the capableness for Nintendo to vessel 20 cardinal Switch 2 consoles this twelvemonth — considerably much than the 15 cardinal estimation that Nintendo has told investors it expects to displacement earlier March 31, 2026.

That 15 cardinal estimation would lucifer the aforesaid fig of Switch 1 consoles sold by Nintendo backmost successful 2017, and has besides been seen arsenic a blimpish fig by immoderate analysts. Speaking to IGN sister tract Eurogamer earlier this month, seasoned steadfast DFC Intelligence said it believed Nintendo would successful world apt merchantability 16m, capable to accidental it had beaten its expectations.

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