Buried in a new Bloomberg report on a 20 per cent increase to Nintendo Switch production shipments is a tidbit the company is now asking third-party developers to “make their games 4K-ready”.
It’s the latest sign a more powerful Nintendo Switch variant is on the way, though not for this year. Exactly what “4K-ready” might mean – full 4K support and to what level – is not expanded upon. Nintendo itself declined to comment on the report.
Talk of a more powerful Nintendo Switch mode is nothing new. Back in March last year, a Wall St Journal [paywall] report tipped two new Switch models in varying stages of production.
Eurogamer’s own report at the time into the development of these models included detail the Lite would be designed for an audience which uses it in handheld mode only, while the higher-powered model would be tailored to a more “core” gamer audience. This plan was inspired by the eventual split evolution of the 3DS into the cut-price 2DS and the New Nintendo 3DS XL model with control nubbin.