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DF Weekly: the Switch 2 hardware leak is almost certainly real - so what have we learned?


Digital Foundry reacts to the extraordinary Nintendo Switch 2 hardware leaks. They're almost certainly genuine, but what does it mean for the final product?

First of all, there has been the relentless and quite remarkable pursuit of Switch 2 facts and rumours from the members of the Famiboard forums, who have chased down every leak and compiled a compelling and almost complete specification. Speaking to DF Supporter Program members on our Discord, I shared an image I generated in Photoshop which extrapolates the mainboard view into a top-down perspective. which many believe rules it out completely as even a cut-back version would be too large, while Jetson power estimators suggest consumption that would never work on a handheld device.

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