 Hey everyone, welcome to Nintendo Prime. If this is the first time you've ever caught a Nintendo Prime video, I would appreciate if you would subscribe to the channel, drop a like, leave a comment down below. We're going to be talking about Nintendo's next generation platform because a new report has come out about something happening at Nvidia that seems to be significantly suggesting that there is massive ongoing development at the moment for Nintendo's next generation platform. And usually when you see something this intense, it typically means something is coming out in the next couple of years. Now, we also have to have a correction statement on an earlier report earlier this week. We talked about Nintendo and their Q&A from their investors meeting, which is now in fully translated in English. And you know, I talked about how sometimes we can question the translations because there's actually evidence in the past of where Nintendo has actually changed wording in the official translation versus what they actually said. But that's neither here nor there. This is the official translation, so we have to go off of this. And reports earlier this week from many media outlets, you've got dozens of them, were that Nintendo was worried about the transition between Nintendo Switch and the next generation platform. That was the consensus that is what multiple people who said they were at the meeting said Nintendo said. And as such, we obviously made a video on that. However, the official report has come out and the question about Nintendo's transition to next generation is in there. And honestly, there is literally nothing in this official translation that says anything about Nintendo being worried at all. It does talk about how Nintendo's plans, you know, with the the amusement park and the movies and expanding Nintendo IP, they hope will help with the transition. That part was true. But for some reason, there's no mention of them being worried about transitioning. They do say that they know transitioning from Switch to next generation is important. That's in here. It doesn't sound like they're worried, at least that's not the way the official translation reads out. So I wanted to put that correction out there before we got into the rest of this video just because I think it's important to clarify incorrect news when the direct source of the news, Nintendo in this case, provides that correction themselves. So yes, I have the Q&A in front of me, I will link the official Q&A down below if you would like to read it. And yeah, there is no mention of Nintendo being worried. So, hey, you know what, this is just what happens when people like me who don't speak Japanese natively and aren't at these meetings are reliant upon people who are at those meetings to provide that information to us. Now, let's get into the actual brunt of the video. And this is about the Nintendo Switch 2. At least it seems like this is about the Nintendo Switch 2, based on something happening at Nvidia, and we're getting this from tech4gamers.com, because no one's noticed this. And it says Nintendo Switch brought a revolution in the world of gaming as it was the first handheld console that could perform respectively against the likes of traditional consoles. The sale it generates are staggering, especially dominating both the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X slash S in Japan technically dominated in the US as well. It just passed PlayStation 4 and was the leading unit seller in April in right here in the US. The OLED version of the Switch only added to the already well-performing sales. But the problem is that the new games might restrict developers, considering there is always news that Zelda Breath of the Wild 2 was too big for Nintendo Switch However to handle. That comes from Digital Foundry. With new games being imported to Nintendo Switch and 4K TVs becoming more common, there's a solid case for a next generation Nintendo that can produce ultra-high quality visuals and good performance. However, we haven't had many rumors until now. According to information obtained from an NVIDIA leak that took place some time ago, a new Nintendo Switch might be in the works. And we talked about this, the NVN N2 stuff, which is also used outside of Switch, but also is used inside of Switch, including NVIDIA's framerate boosting DLSS technology and purely based on NVIDIA SOC. And they do have DLSS 2.0, which is really good, and they're working on another version of DLSS right now. Because NVN is the name of the graphics API used by the Nintendo Switch, and again a couple of the devices, NVN DLSS.CPP, NVN N.DLSS.CPP, NVN DLSS backend.H are all possible references to the Switch in the leaked code. Interestingly, that code also mentioned NVN 2, implying that next generation Switch is underway. And again, NVN is used for other things. Now, this is all recapping information we already knew about the fact that there is probably something in the works. However, we're not done. Now a job listing just dropped that hints at NVIDIA might be working on graphics developers tools for the Nintendo Switch 2. And here's what the listing says. It says game console developer tools engineer. First off, note game console. There's only one game console that NVIDIA tech is in. So it's a full time position. They're actively recruiting. And here's what it says about the job. Are you passionate about 3D graphics GPUs and low level, close to the hardware programming? Have you ever dreamed of helping bring video games to life? Do you want to work with a fast, agile, and experienced team? Are you ready to move at the speed of light? NVIDIA is looking to hire a deeply technical, creative, enhanced on software engineer to pioneer the next generation of graphics developer tools for game consoles. You will work with the NVIDIA graphics tools team to build tools that enable developers worldwide to harness the full power of NVIDIA GPUs. We are looking for a low level programmer to help us provide the best possible experience for game developers seeking to debug and optimize their games. What's interesting in here is there's additional information along with this listing. That's just the general information about the job because right now you can go, well, what if they refer to a different game console? Alright, so scrolling on down, this is the additional stuff. It says NVIDIA developer tools are a collection, so you're making developer tools. To be clear, that's what this position is for, is to hire development tools. Alright, NVIDIA is looking to hire a deeply technical, creative, enhanced on software engineer to pioneer the next generation of graphics developer tools. NVIDIA developer tools are a collection of applications that enable third party developers to build cutting edge software that utilizes NVIDIA's latest visual computing hardware. We already know that neither the Xbox Series X or S or the PlayStation 5 use NVIDIA's graphics. Concerning the above leak, it could be possible that the third party console might be making use of this new tool would be a next generation Nintendo Switch. In other words, it can be assumed that the listing could probably hint at developer tools for Nintendo Switch 2. Also, here's some requirements of the job listing, experience developing drivers for graphic cards, experience with GPU low level performance, tuning and optimization, including profiling and debugging. And that's the one where you got to start looking at Nintendo, because when you're talking about them making another handheld, low level performance, tuning and optimization is going to be extremely important. Background in the game industry or in a field that requires high performance graphics, create graphic profiles features for NVIDIA GPUs, enabling developers to achieve higher and more consistent frame rates, implement graphics debugging features by reading and writing GPU registers and memory by processing and manipulating GPU commands at the driver level. So what did we learn from all this to kind of break it all down? NVIDIA is hiring somebody to work on a game console GPU that is going to be working at the low level performance tuning and optimization. So at the at the lower power draw performance level tuning of the optimization, including profiling and debugging, they want to get higher frame rates out of this etc. They're looking at experts to work on the developer tools for a low power, low level next generation GPU. And I find this very fascinating because this is the first real hint from NVIDIA themselves publicly. We know about the leak, but publicly that they obviously have something in the works for Nintendo Switch. For those who don't know, NVIDIA had made the developer tools for the switch. So all the developer tools that everybody who makes games for Nintendo Switch uses are made by NVIDIA. They're not made by Nintendo, they're made by NVIDIA themselves. And it would make sense that they're obviously going to make the developer tools for the new system. And so if they have somebody working on developer tools, clearly that's going to be in dev kits, clearly that's going to be something that's going to be going out in the next year. And clearly this could lead to the thought process that hey, a new Nintendo Switch is gone its way. And by the way, they're hiring this person here doesn't mean they don't already have people working on these developers. It's not like, oh man, they're not working on the developer tools until now. No, they're just hiring another person to work on it because they don't have enough people. Could be somebody moved on, you know, whatever, going to a new job. Maybe they're just expanding the team, whatever that whatever might be going on in NVIDIA. I don't work there to understand what's happening. But yeah, this is really cool. This obviously lends a lot of credence to to what's what's going to happen down the line. Well, there's a lot of things, you know, that people talk about when when referring to Nintendo Switch and coming up with a solution for 4k. We do have things like this enhanced 1080p 4k gamer pro that I wanted a video done this weekend on but I just I just didn't get time to do. But we will have a video on this. We're giving away a couple of these, by the way, during Prime Gaming Fest. These are like 170 bucks each. They're not cheap, but they provide at least a temporary solution to make Switch look a little bit better in 4k. They don't actually like, you know, suddenly give the Switch more power. It's more of a AI enhancing, you know, way to up res. It's not DLSS. It's not FSR. It's just something to help a little bit add a little bit more sharpening all that stuff. Well, we'll actually look into that later so you guys can see the differences because I got to get some direct recorded. That's right. I'm actually going to be hooking this up and running into a 4k capture card so I can actually capture native 4k right off of this bad boy at 60 fps. So you can actually get a really good look at this because I know a lot of the captures I've seen of this aren't into a 4k capture card. I've seen the 4k gamer pro shown off where it's just 1080p footage because that's what their capture card can handle. But I have a true 4k 60 fps capture card so I can actually really do a great comparison in full 4k for you guys of what 1080p just looks like at that raw 4k, which is what some people experience on their televisions versus what 4k looks like with this. Because TV is also upscale. This TV back here will upscale the 4k but it just... TVs aren't the best upscalers because it's really expensive. As you just heard, 170 bucks for this. That's a cheap thing or an expensive thing that people aren't going to want to shove into their TVs usually. Some TVs, maybe the more expensive ones, I mean this TV is not cheap, it's $3,000. But anyways, you guys are awesome. I wanted to give you so much for tuning in. Let me know your thoughts on this. Do you think this is evidence of new stuff happening with Nintendo Switch 2? Do you think this means Nintendo Switch 2 is coming soon? I know there's an analyst out there through a prediction that Nintendo Switch 2 wouldn't launch until 2024. And I've talked about 2024 potentially being a release date for Switch 2 before. I will note on this that hey, I do think new hardware is coming sometime in the next, you know, by the end of 2023. It doesn't mean that new hardware is going to be Switch 2. It could be something else. It could end up being an update to the Switch Lite. It could end up just being, you know, the fabled Switch Pro that nobody really wants to talk about that much anymore. So we'll see. What we know is something new is happening. Something new is happening at Nvidia. Something new is happening at Nintendo. Nintendo is talking about next generation. Nvidia is hiring someone for next generation. I'm just saying the stars are aligning and now it's the waiting game, the guessing game until whatever comes out. I want to thank you guys so much for tuning in and I'll catch you in the next video.