NVidia leak ignites fresh “Switch Pro” rumors, which have more legs than last year’s
The T234 NVidia Chipset, on which the next Switch Pro could be based.
Social Media networks are on fire with rumors spreading fast around the Nintendo Switch 2, or Switch Pro, after NVidia suffered a massive hack late last week.
NVidia hacked, DLSS Source code leaked
Hacking group LAPSUS$ allegedly hacked into NVidia’s corporate systems, and siphoned 1TB of data, including future Hardware information, employee credentials and information, as well as software source code, in particular the source code for their DLSS driver.
As proof, the group behind the hack have already leaked what seems to be the names of upcoming GPUs, and, more importantly, the source code for NVidia’s DLSS tech drivers.
A lot of people have been looking into the leaked source code, which appears to be legit.
DLSS Source code has references to “nvn2”, API for a potential Switch Pro
Nintendo scene dev and veteran NWPlayer123 in particular unearthed references to nvn2, probably the API codename for a new generation of Nintendo Switch (the API for the current Switch models is nvn). Whether you want to call that a Switch Pro, or a Switch 2, is semantics at this point.
The drivers for that console would be providing ray-tracing and DLSS2.2 support. (Which does not necessarily mean that the console would use that functionality, but one can be hopeful).
NVIDIA leaks have “nvn2”, which seems to be the graphics api for the Switch Pro, based on Ampere with ray tracing support and DLSS 2.2 pic.twitter.com/k6nEr31CcY
— Nikki™ 🌹 (@NWPlayer123) March 1, 2022
The hacker also confirmed the leaked source files seem legit, as they reference the T234/T239 chipsets that Switch hackers had been talking about since last year.
A Switch Pro being in the works right now, for a release next year or 2024, sounds a bit more probable than last year’s rumors of a “Switch Pro” (these rumors, fueled by some mainstream media such as Bloomberg, turned out to be quite inaccurate, as the OLED was just an incremental upgrade of the original switch, not a Switch Pro).
Therefore, unlike last year’s, it seems these rumors have legs.
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The switch is Nintendo’s worst ever console in my eyes. They need to forget this portability *** and go back to making a proper home console again. My switch just sits gathering dust where it has sat for ages.
Nah, Switch is a great as a PORTABLE handheld on 2017. Steam Deck? Well That’s 2022… Great games ( and so others bad, but eh even the Ps4 has bad games ) , Nintendo policies are a bit weird , and unfair, going behind people on a Rampage for copyrights, they still didn’t evolve .
But the switch is cool, specially if you have a hacked one, because then is also a great PORTABLE emulator for Retro games. If you don’t like yours, is fine, you should sell it to someone that gives value, not everyone will enjoy the same things, and that is ok.
the portability is the only reason why its so successful.
It’s more powerful than their previous consoles while also being portable. You people whine but would never support an enthusiast Nintendo console again. Nintendo barely got away with the N64 which brought workstation architecture at home for an astonishingly cheap price. But yeah, you’d TOTALLY buy every game for a Nintendo console that was better than everyone else. TOTALLY. We also totally need Nintendo games to look hyper realistic….
I hope that switch prostate and oled will be newer cfw
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Yes hackers leak nvidia files of dll and diagrams schemes. I hope there is the mariko for someone dev for quicly exploit the nintendo switch software way.
Maybe its a psvita 2?
Pff, No, Sony left the Vita to die on the handheld market, they didn’t care, and they sc*** up with the freaking proprietary storage, they are always there to push new standards that benefits them only and alienate costumers, but after Blu-Ray is pretty much clear they are not winning Format Wars anymore. To enter the handheld market now, they would reaaaallly need to have something great , and ready to loose a few Billions..
The PS Vita 2 would be called PSP 3 as the Vita was PSP 2.