Reports: “4K” Nintendo Switch revision slated for 2021 launch
Reports: “4K” Nintendo Switch revision slated for 2021 launch

                      
                      
          An upgraded version of the Nintendo Switch console appears to finally be on the horizon. Multiple outlets have claimed that Nintendo's long-rumored plans for a higher-powered Switch are finally moving forward with an expected launch of sometime in 2021.
Reports from both Bloomberg and the Taipei outlet United Daily News allege that this system's specifications are currently in flux, according to sources familiar with Nintendo's plans. Bloomberg's late Monday report claims that Nintendo is considering upgrades like "more computing power and 4K high-definition graphics," and those details line up with a machine-translated version of UDN's report from earlier in the day.
Games? Portability?
Intriguingly, the UDN report points to an aggressive release schedule as early as "Q1 2021," with hardware production beginning by the end of 2020, but Bloomberg's report does not mention such a timeframe. Both reports mention a dearth of announced software for Nintendo Switch this holiday season, and Bloomberg reporter Takashi Mochizuki claims this is intentional on Nintendo's part, in order to bolster "launch" software for the upgraded Switch next year.
Should Mochizuki's claim be true, we may very well see games like the announced sequel to Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild prepared for this new Switch. (That Zelda game was previously announced at E3 2019, only to vanish during this year's not-quite-E3 series of game announcements.) But neither of Monday's reports clarifies whether this system and the existing Switch will be interoperable, or whether either system will have exclusive software. And while both reports mention that this will be an "upgraded Switch model," neither spells out whether it will entirely resemble the existing Switch's hybrid home-and-portable nature, or whether an update for higher resolutions may require a home-only model.

          
                      
                  