Nintendo Shuts Down Rumors Regarding 4K Nintendo Switch... Again

Recently, a news story has been making waves regarding the Nintendo Switch. Cheers to a recent report by Bloomberg, information technology's been known that 11 different game companies have had their teams in possession of a 4K development kit for the Switch. This sparked rumors regarding a 4K-capable Switch ahead of the OLED Model'southward upcoming release.

Regarding the supposed development kits, they were practically similar to the electric current Nintendo Switch but with boosted retention for debugging and ports for connecting to a computer. Bloomberg speculated that a organization of this caliber wouldn't exist released until late 2022 at the earliest.

Unfortunately, it seems like the wait volition have to be much longer as Nintendo has once again denied the reports in a tweet made for investors. The Nintendo account on Twitter talked about how the company has no plans for a new Switch model besides the OLED variant. This makes sense considering that they don't want to steal the thunder from the OLED'southward upcoming release on October 8.

We also want to restate that, equally we announced in July, we have no plans for whatever new model other than Nintendo Switch – OLED Model, which will launch on October eight, 2021. (2/two)

— 任天堂株式会社（企業広報・IR） (@NintendoCoLtd) September 30, 2021

The upcoming Switch OLED volition sport an all-new, and larger, OLED display aslope a redesigned dock with built-in LAN port. Other than that, the new model won't feature any major hardware improvements. Equally such, players accept been expecting some sort of announcement regarding an upgrade for quite some time.

Of course, several users have been questioning the claims made by Nintendo. Regardless of the veracity of the rumors, people nevertheless believe that a system upgrade volition release at some point in 2022/2023. The reason being that the Nintendo Switch itself has begun to show its age equally titles accept become more demanding of resource.

Some users accept also pointed out that Nintendo could be stating this to make the OLED Model's sales more than highly-seasoned. However, without any sort of confirmation, the truth to the affair is entirely up to speculation from both users and Nintendo themselves. Again, the Nintendo Switch OLED Model will be available on October eight.