As Switch hardware upgrade rumours swirl, Nintendo reportedly asks developers to get games "4K-ready"

3 years 8 months ago

Buried in a new Bloomberg report on a 20 per cent increase to Nintendo Switch production shipments is a tidbit the company is now asking third-party developers to "make their games 4K-ready".

It's the latest sign a more powerful Nintendo Switch variant is on the way, though not for this year. Exactly what "4K-ready" might mean - full 4K support and to what level - is not expanded upon. Nintendo itself declined to comment on the report.

Talk of a more powerful Nintendo Switch mode is nothing new. Back in March last year, a Wall St Journal [paywall] report tipped two new Switch models in varying stages of production.

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