Report: New Nintendo Switch Model Planned for Release After Q1 2020

<p>It&&num;8217&semi;s time for us to tackle the rumors that have plagued the Nintendo Switch once again&period; This time&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;digitimes&period;com&sol;news&sol;a20200106PD206&period;html">DigiTimes<&sol;a> reported that a new Nintendo Switch model will come to gamers&period; The outlet cited &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;sources from the related upstream supply chain&period;”&period; According to DigiTimes&comma; the new Nintendo Switch model is planned for release at the end of Q1 2020&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-150739" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;01&sol;06144608&sol;jbareham&lowbar;1492&lowbar;170228&lowbar;0024&period;0&period;0&period;jpg" alt&equals;"new nintendo switch model in 2020&quest;" width&equals;"1200" height&equals;"800" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">A New Nintendo Switch Model&quest;<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Now&comma; the report states that the new model will have a better CPU and a magnesium alloy body instead of plastic&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s a little bit vague in terms of specifications&period; However&comma; this adds to 2018&&num;8217&semi;s rumor about Nintendo&&num;8217&semi;s <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;gamesradar&period;com&sol;nintendo-switch-new-versions-e3-2019&sol;">manufacturing of 2 consoles<&sol;a>&period; One of which is what we know as the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;review-nintendo-switch-lite&sol;">Switch Lite<&sol;a>&period; Could this be the alleged Switch Pro&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It certainly wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t be strange to think so&period; With the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;wccftech&period;com&sol;microsoft-xbox-series-x-power-your-dreams&sol;">Xbox One Series X<&sol;a> and the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;playstation-5-at-least-three-years-away&sol;">PlayStation 5<&sol;a> coming this year&semi; we could see Nintendo upping their console&&num;8217&semi;s specs to be able to keep up&period; However&comma; Niko Partners’ Daniel Ahmad seems to think otherwise&period; He stated that he doesn&&num;8217&semi;t think that this is going to be a new Nintendo Switch model&period; Quite the contrary&comma; he has theorized that this might be another hardware revision&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"500" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">Right now i&&num;39&semi;m of the opinion that we won&&num;39&semi;t see a new Switch Pro&sol;4K&sol;2 or whatever you want to call it in 2020&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I think we could see Nintendo wait till early 2021 and beyond before launching new high powered hardware in the Switch family&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>2020 could see new revisions ofc&period; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;dTSuGCpviv">https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;dTSuGCpviv<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; Daniel Ahmad &lpar;&commat;ZhugeEX&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;ZhugeEX&sol;status&sol;1212984017437569024&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">January 3&comma; 2020<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the end&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s all a matter of perspective&period; Let&&num;8217&semi;s remember that Nintendo has always been isolated from other companies in the industry&period; Their actions have always been autonomous from the gaming industry as a whole&comma; no matter how powerful the competition can get&period; As such&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s not possible to assert that Nintendo will release a console to respond to its competitors&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Not helping things is DigiTimes&&num;8217&semi; spotty record at reporting on Nintendo Switch hardware&period; For example&comma; in June 2016&comma; it <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;gematsu&period;com&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;rumor-nintendo-nx-mass-production-postponed-early-2017-add-vr-functionality">reported<&sol;a> that Switch&comma; known only as NX at the time&comma; was delayed from a mid-2016 release window to early 2017 to add virtual reality functions&period; While the window was right&comma; we didn&&num;8217&semi;t see any sort of VR function being added to the Switch&period; That happened later once <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;nintendo-labo&sol;">Nintendo Labo made its rounds&period;<&sol;a> &lpar;Nice eagle eye&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;gematsu&period;com&sol;2020&sol;01&sol;digitimes-new-switch-model-planned-for-mid-2020-release">Gematsu<&sol;a>&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>So&comma; like all rumors&comma; we suggest taking this one with a grain of salt&period; However&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;d like to know your thoughts about the new Nintendo Switch model&period; What do you think about this report from DigiTimes&quest; Do you think it&&num;8217&semi;s legitimate&quest; Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;