Nintendo Switch Successor Will Have Upscaling Technology Like DLSS

Nintendo Swap Successor is but to be revealed, likely within the first quarter of 2025 however we’ve obtained some new info on its capabilities. On January 1, a patent was revealed which was initially filed in July 2023, revealing a brand new system that upscales the picture of 1 decision to a better one. Properly, its working is much like DLSS, and will probably be coming in Nintendo Swap Successor.

For now, the title of this know-how has not been disclosed, however absolutely Nintendo will talk about it on the day of the reveal. Furthermore, a Journalist named Laura Kate Dale notes that the brand new patent additionally mentions that it may well use upscaling know-how to scale back the sport dimension to suit it onto like recreation playing cards.

“Maybe essentially the most fascinating piece of this, after a prolonged learn, is that one instance use case given is explicitly to scale back total recreation sizes, to suit a contemporary recreation onto “smaller capability bodily media”, e.g. Swap carts, which get exponentially dearer for bigger cart capacities.”

Explaining additional she clarifies, “The instance given is {that a} recreation witth native 4K textures may want a 60GB obtain, however a 1080 native model may solely want 20GB (which might permit it to suit on a 32GB Swap Cart, the present max dimension Nintendo produces for Swap 1). The thought being to do a 4X upscale on the gadget in realtime.”

“Additionally of be aware, all examples given within the patent discuss speeds and accuracy of both 540p to 1080p or 1080p to 4K upscales.”

Tell us what you consider the brand new upscaling know-how for Nintendo Swap Successor, and whether or not it will permit different huge video games to be ported for it.