The first thing to know about the new Nintendo Switch home gaming
system: it’s really fun to play. With great graphics, loads of game
titles and incredible performance, the Nintendo Switch will provide
people with many hours of engaging and interactive gaming entertainment.
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But creating a device so fun required some serious engineering. The
development encompassed 500 man-years of effort across every facet of
creating a new gaming platform: algorithms, computer architecture,
system design, system software, APIs, game engines and peripherals. They
all had to be rethought and redesigned for Nintendo to deliver the best
experience for gamers, whether they’re in the living room or on the
move.
A Console Architecture for the Living Room and Beyond
Nintendo Switch is powered by the performance of the custom Tegra
processor. The high-efficiency scalable processor includes an NVIDIA GPU
based on the same architecture as the world’s top-performing GeForce
gaming graphics cards.
The Nintendo Switch’s gaming experience is also supported by fully
custom software, including a revamped physics engine, new libraries,
advanced game tools and libraries. NVIDIA additionally created new
gaming APIs to fully harness this performance. The newest API, NVN, was
built specifically to bring lightweight, fast gaming to the masses.
Gameplay is further enhanced by hardware-accelerated video playback and custom software for audio effects and rendering.
We’ve optimized the full suite of hardware and software for gaming
and mobile use cases. This includes custom operating system integration
with the GPU to increase both performance and efficiency.
NVIDIA gaming technology is integrated into all aspects of the new
Nintendo Switch home gaming system, which promises to deliver a great
experience to gamers.
The Nintendo Switch will be available in March 2017. More information is available at
Nintendo Switch is a trademark of Nintendo.
