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Nintendo Switch 2: final tech specs and system reservations confirmed
Digital Foundry reveals the final specs - and system reservations - for the Nintendo Switch 2.
Starting with the CPU, Nvidia and Nintendo have indeed settled on the ARM Cortex A78C, running the ARMv8 64-bit instruction set with cryptography extensions enabled - 32-bit is not supported by the SDK. Watch on YouTube While the Switch 2 uses variations of existing technology, there is a component that's fully custom-made for Nintendo: the FDE or file decompression engine. By and large, the hardware leaks - going all the way back to 2021 - have proven accurate, which gives you some kind of idea of just how long it takes to get a console to market.
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