 Alright, late last night early this morning Nintendo held their corporate management policy briefing Gotta remember Japan's 14 hours ahead. So it was like the middle of the day for them And they did this digitally to investors and we have their slideshow. There's nothing that special in their slideshow But during the presentation, obviously, they didn't just look at the slideshow and just show people slides If that was the case, they wouldn't even need to have the briefing Shintaro Furukawa was on camera talking to investors about a lot of things at Nintendo and The coolest thing in my opinion that he talked about the coolest thing is about well the future of the company and the future of switch because Shintaro Furukawa actually Dabbled on what their plans are for the future of switch and this is interesting because some of the words He said are things that we haven't heard from Nintendo in 20 years I'm not even kidding. 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What is the most comfortable for the users is what we are working on? so David Gibson even admits someone mentioned him DLSS and David Gibson's like, yeah, I thought the odds of DLSS in the switch pro just went up So what does Nintendo admitting here Nintendo hasn't looked at cutting-edge technology in a long time? Let's start with that. They have not looked at cutting-edge technology in a long time Nintendo has traditionally focused on the gameplay experience technology second and then Building everything around whatever tech that they think they need and it's often not cutting edge When you look at PlayStation 5, you look at X by series X. That's cutting-edge technology. Nintendo doesn't do that They haven't done that since the Gamecube days Basically since before a Satura Iwata was CEO So before Satura Iwata Nintendo used to talk about cutting-edge technology all the time after Satura Iwata They didn't now we have Shintaro Furukawa saying look We're looking at cutting-edge technology We're gonna see how intuitive it is for users and the battery life is important because they want gameplay around five to six hours So what Nintendo's admitting is them? Likely with Nvidia we can't presume that it is Nvidia, but you know, we know they have a 10-year partnership with them So likely with Nvidia. They're likely looking at cutting-edge tech for a new switch. We're talking Volta tech we're talking they just acquired ARMs the latest ARM processors and the thing is that That technology despite being so much more powerful is also a lot more power efficient than the Tegra X1 So if they're able to take next gen or well, I guess it's almost current gen at this point technology and Shrink it and make a new chipset that works. Nintendo's looking at it. They want it Yeah, they want the five to six hours of gameplay, but they also want cutting-edge tech They want to beef up their switch. They want DLSS 2.0 taking their games the 4k on modern TVs because 4k TVs are now affordable Nintendo didn't dive into the 4 no the HD pool back with the Wii because HD TVs were still expensive at the time back in 2005 2006 Right, but they quickly became affordable Well 4k TVs are already affordable anyone who replaces a TV in their home Likely is buying a 4k TV because you can get them for like $300. They're dirt cheap doesn't mean they're the greatest And doesn't mean you should use them, but I mean they are dirt cheap, right? so What Nintendo is doing is they are deciding that latest and greatest tech is important They they do stress throughout the thing, you know, they're they're all about innovation and and giving people what they don't expect And yes an upgraded next-gen switch with better technology is kind of expected But they also mentioned that one thing that's happening is the switch is different from everybody else because you could take it with you It sounds like Nintendo is going to be doing a switch thing for a while a decade plus it sounds like that That's the plan a decade plus of switch and because of that I think they are looking at the latest and greatest technology from Nvidia I think they're working hand-in-hand with Nvidia for a new chip a new chip set and a new switch that they can release at a Semi-affordable price. I don't think we're going to see anything much about 350. I think the three the 299 349 is kind of the ceiling Nintendo sees for releasing the system so they're not going to release another one until the technology is affordable enough to the point that end consumers can get it for a reasonable price, but R&D investment previously used to look at only conventional tech that enabled lower price and appeal to users But now they're looking at cutting edge like literally they used to look at just budget budget budget now They're looking at cutting edge technology guys I'm starting to feel that these rumors around a 4k switch. I'm starting to feel that these You know reports out there that heck maybe even next year like I'm starting to to believe This is the first time Nintendo has publicly stated anything about next-gen and the first time they talked about cutting edge technology And obviously, you know trying to balance cutting edge technology with battery life This is one of the first times Nintendo has ever done this and they never do this I'm gonna be honest with you in the midst of the highest selling year for switch ever Nintendo doesn't do this That they don't they don't invade on the current platforms parade and talk about next-gen But Shantara for a cabba ain't mints and words here He went straight to the investors and said guys our R&D all that money that we've increased an R&D over the last year or two We're not looking at at how to shrink a Tegra X1 some more and get some more battery life out of that We have looking at ways to take the Mariko processor and make it better Hell no, we're looking at how to do it with cutting edge tech. We're looking at what's next Cutting edge technology that can still give us battery life of five to six hours One this does defeat all the theories out there that Nintendo is working on a system that goes under your TV Clearly with it having battery life. It's not a system that goes under your TV. We're looking at another switch form factor But hell man DLSS 2.0 if DLSS 2.0 is coming It guys I mean that means we're getting tensor cores. That means we're getting Volta Volta is NVIDIA's latest GPU tech that means we're getting Volta and That is so exciting. That is technology has gotten to the point where Nintendo doesn't need to compete on teraflops They don't have to have four or five six teraflops. They don't Teraflops are not the be all end all guys. You can get What looks like NATO 4k resolution? With DLSS 2.0, it's been proven. We've seen it in games that control you can run that game at 720p DLSS 2.0 it all the way up to 4k and it looks the same as NATO 4k It's almost indiscernible. You have to be really really fine attention to like little minor details to realize It's not actually 4k And you get better frame rates You take those ray tracing cores throw ray tracing away and have it focus on resolution and resolution buffing and frame rates Ray tracing is great by the way, I love ray tracing the fact that the X-Box series X-Box 5 have ray tracing is great I'm excited about ray tracing. It is a really cool thing that happens with light That just makes it so much more realistic, but you know what? I'm okay without it. I don't need ray tracing in my games Give me that DLSS 2.0 man Give me that 4k switch. Give me that switch that you can tell outputs at 4k and users won't even know the difference They're gonna be like, oh man I could spend $499 and buy an X-Box series X or a PlayStation 5 those 4k systems or I could spend 300 to 350 Buy a Nintendo switch that gives me visuals that look the same At least it doesn't make it I because they're using next-gen volta tech. That's what we're talking about here Nintendo doesn't do this. I don't know what what's going on shantara furikawa man You know that there's been some criticism of shantara furikawa since he took over because he's more of a business man Well, let me tell you that business man is laying it out there that dude They're working on cutting edge technology and we're gonna get a super powerful switch. It's gonna be a huge leap It's gonna appear to be a huge leap because I DLSS 2.0. I don't know if it's coming next year I know the rumors were next year. I don't know if that's happening, but Nintendo Dude, they're going all out They know they got something hot. They ain't letting it go. They're not gonna. We you this they're gonna go all out And this is insane. I haven't seen a Nintendo this confident this a Nintendo this aggressive in a long time But Nintendo knows what they got on their hands man They they see Super Mario 3d all-star selling they see Animal Crossing sales they see the switch exploding during a pandemic Nintendo knows what they have on their hands So we'll see what happens All right, folks. I am Nathan Romeau dance from Nintendo Prime. Thanks for tuning in. I'll catch you in the next video