 So today the Nintendo switch light was announced and some people are really excited some people are kind of whole home Some people don't really care if you own an original switch It doesn't really replace that unless you're looking to own a second switch in your life exclusively for portable needs They got some interesting stuff going on the Pokemon Sword and Shield design is really neat But what I actually wanted to do is take this opportunity to kind of go back and look at what have all the rumors and reports Been out there now. I'm talking about actual rumors and reports not speculation In regards to the switch mini which we now know as the switch light and the switch pro and What we can extrapolate from this to believe for the Nintendo switch pro now These are by far not every report out of there, but these are the ones that come from reliable places So Nick a out of Japan Wall Street Journal and Eurogamer other three in particular I'm going to be referencing here and I got all of these articles I found on Nintendo life, so I'm going to give credit to Nintendo life for kind of gathering this information up because a lot of this Like from Nick a from Wall Street like I can't read Japanese. So that doesn't help me there and the stuff from the Wall Street Journal Requires a subscription which I might my subscriptions expired at the moment So I can't really show you the Wall Street Journal stuff So I'll put a link to all of Nintendo life stuff down here It's like Donald six or seven different links and these date back to last year rumors about the switch pro By the way have been going on for two years rumors about the switch many have been going on for a little over a year So there are sources you can find for the stuff way back when but they were just really vague the stuff we have from basically October last year to now has been much more detailed and These are the three sources that I feel like nailed everything with the switch mini and might have useful insights for the switch pro So let's just look at it and see what we got So this was back in October October 4th here 2018 rumor a new switch goes plan for late 2019 and essentially what it says is that This is like the first major switch pro rumor where it's like okay All this other stuff was like whispered on 4chan, but like this is a legit source Wall Street Journal telling you switch pro is real It'll have you know newer screen tech. It'll try to make the switch lighter right now It's a little over a half-inch thick. They want to make it lighter and thinner a brighter display This is where we heard that they're gonna do new stuff with the display on the switch pro Keep that in mind because that's what the switch pro not the mini. All right moving on We end up with this one from January 31st and This one basically says From Nick a suggest a smaller more affordable hardware is on the way This is where we first started hearing a little bit about a switch mini And they basically said it would release this year. It would be smaller And it would remove certain functions that cut the overall cost of the unit all things to be expected Actually, I think there was one from March here first No, that's June. All right, so here this one talks about you know how the switch mini could be keyed in video It's financial revival. This was more of a speculative thing Where an Nvidia basically suggested that they were gonna see an expected growth in the mobile gaming GPU market and people read the between the lines as oh, there must be a new Nintendo switch launching So that was just kind of a thing that existed out there. And then you get to this one. This was from June 13th And this one talked about us moving switch manufacturing the China to new models This also was from the Wall Street Journal and it basically just mentions. Hey look We're gonna be moving manufacturing outside of China just in case those tariffs come through We've now heard that it apparently looks like Vietnam might have been the source of where they're sourcing out the making of these The two there will be two new models of the switch coming this year again from the Wall Street Journal This is not too long ago One is actually going to be beefed up and then one that is less expensive with a new look now Now there's some other stuff as well that I didn't find at Nintendo life as an example Eurogamer in March of 2019 actually gave us quite a few details They gave us Here's basically the details they gave the Eurogamer actually gave very specific details about the mini So we're gonna actually spend a lot of this talking about this So in March of 2019 Eurogamer expanded upon the Wall Street Journal report of the two models And they said this is what's gonna happen one that one of the models is going to be a cheaper model It is going to be replacing the 3ds So the goal of it was hey once 3ds is done. This is what replaces that It'll be offering a more 2ds like value not 2ds in terms of oh, you know pricing per se but 2ds in terms of Comparative to the original device. So cutting back features comparative to the original price and offering a significant discount for doing that Costs driven down by removing the features. It would be sturdier Rumble would be removed and it would be handheld only which basically means no joy cons handheld only No removable don't joy cons anyways and all of that is exactly what we got. We got what is basically a 2ds We got the cost driven down by removing features It's sturdier because it doesn't have removable joy cons The rumble is gone and it is handheld only basically Eurogamer point for point for point nailed everything Okay, next they talked about the switch pro and this is maybe the most useful detail We have remember Wall Street Journal who also got everything right with the switch mini now known as the switch light They ended up talking about screen technology Eurogamer mentioned something very interesting. This is a the beefed up switch, which is the more powerful switch We'll have a new 3ds style bump in performance And we'll be dockable now. This is important to note because it means one it's probably still a portable switch that can be docked but What's important to note here is that this includes an increase in performance now Nvidia did announce that they have shrunk down tega x1s out there coming to the next Nvidia shields So we know shrunk down tega x1s exist and Actually, believe it or not with the announcement of the switch light based on people who have gone hands on and talked to Nintendo representatives the switch light is using that shrunk down tega x1 So the switch lights already using a quote-unquote better like Better period better internals. I guess that's the best way to put it But we don't know what their clock that I'm guessing for the switch mini The clock speeds are pretty close to the original speeds of the switch Just in a smaller form factor with lower power draw hence probably a similar size battery But but longer battery length an hour plus for switch light If you guys want to know more about switch light, by the way, check out my my video up here On that I did a little nice little 40 minute deep dive into it But What's interesting here is they said new 3ds style bumping performance Now the new 3ds was not an insignificant bump in performance. I think people Just because of the power spectrum that 3ds sits on think that oh the new 3ds wasn't a big deal It was a huge deal. It doubled the ram Can you imagine switch doubling ram going from four gigs to eight? That is a massive change and we know from developers that there are dev units that have eight gigs on it So it's not like it's impossible for there to be eight gigs on the switch In addition to that they increased the cpu clocks and the gpu clocks massively This is why some games just run better on on on the new 3ds. So you know the chronicles period only runs on the new 3ds But if you look at something like hyrule warriors legends on the original 3ds, it runs so poorly You might as well not play it. You can literally see like individual frames. That's how bad the stutter is But on the new 3ds it runs like a dream. In fact, it runs so well on the new 3ds It actually gives you better frame rate performance Then hyrule warriors does on wii u if you can believe that or not and the wii u is a more powerful platform So I don't know what that means, but they obviously were able to optimize it very well for that technology A bump like that would be a pro style bump. This is where people were talking about. Oh, it's not going to be like a PlayStation 4 pro. It's not going to be like an xbox one x. No, it's not going to be As significant like the xbox one x took you from 1080p to some semblance of 4k But the the playstation, you know, or the sorry the nintendo switch pro or whatever they call it the new nintendo switch Isn't going to take you from 1080p, you know up to 4k like that's not happening There's not going to be that kind of leap But what they are going to do is give you more stable frame rates keep resolutions at closer to 1080p And give more ability for bigger games to potentially come over to the platform It's weird because we're already getting the witcher 3 so like how much bigger does it get right? So it's just something to consider something I want to throw out there that yes These places that nailed all these things about switch mini have given us details on the switch pro Then now we have some validity to actually say they might be true So what do we know about switch pro? It's going to be more powerful That's the big thing we go It's going to be more powerful and we know the leap is comparable to the new nintendo 3ds So double the ram faster clock speed gpu faster clock speed cpu all that stuff Maybe bigger internal storage because there was bigger internal storage on the new nintendo 3ds as well So that's something to take into consideration And on top of that on top of all of that New screen technology Not OLED it is specific that it's not OLED, but maybe it's IPS Maybe it's a glass front, you know instead of being the plastic Maybe there's no bezels, right? These are all things that are possible on the nintendo switch pro They could have took this and made it better So I just want to throw this out there Obviously, this is just a repeat and a regurgitation of information We've already put out there But I thought it was interesting to look at it and just figure out What exactly do we know about the pro based on all these places that were right about the nintendo switch light Anyways, you guys let me know what you think about all this information down in the comments below because I am excited for nintendo switch light Even though I'm not buying one for myself Maybe my son and I am also really excited about the potential in nintendo switch pro If you're wondering about release dates again, wall street journal has claimed Multiple times that the nintendo switch pro is also arriving this year So that's a factoid to kind of throw out there wall street journals like hey look it's coming this year and We'll see I don't know if I believe that but we'll see it that's That's what they're saying. So we haven't heard anything about 2020 date. It's all been 2019 So hey, you know what we could end up with a 400 dollar switch pro coming out for the holidays. Who really knows right? But nintendo so I think you guys for tuning in obviously Man my mind is still swimming from the light You guys let me know your opinions on the light on the pro on all these various places reporting on all this stuff Because the bottom line is over the past year. I've gotten a lot of flak There's been a lot of people saying why are you reporting on wall street journal? And then you know they got this all the netflix thing wrong. Why are you reporting euro gamer? Don't you know they they push that gamer fps agenda? Why are you reporting on this? Why are you reporting nick a is got thing like you know why we report on this stuff because sometimes it's right And when it's right, it's usually way right and in this case three Independent reliable places were 100 right on the nintendo switch light Which means they might be right on the nintendo switch pro as well So let's just keep that in mind. All right folks. Thank you for tuning in drop a like on this video Subscribe for more content and I'll catch each and every one of you guys in the next video