Industry insider John Linneman let slip that the oft rumoured Switch Pro is no longer in development, but a follow up could be out as early as 2024.
The Nintendo Switch Pro has been churning up the rumour mill practically since the console's launch almost seven years ago. These rumours hit fever pitch in 2020 when internal documents showed that Nintendo had been buying a lot of OLED screens, then in 2021…the Switch OLED was released, which – although the best version of the current hardware – wasn’t quite the beefed up Switch Pro most fans were hoping for.
Now it seems that the rumours can be finally put to bed, as Digital Foundry’s John Linneman let slip during a recent episode of the Digital Foundry podcast that there was a mid-gen Switch update planned at one point, but it was subsequently scrapped
“So I think, at one point, internally – from what I can understand from talking to different developers – there was some sort of mid generation Switch update planned at one point, and that seems to no longer be happening. Thus it's pretty clear that, whatever they do next, is going to be actual next-generation hardware – a Nintendo Switch 2 perhaps?
