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Nintendo: No new Switch model planned for 2020

These are the only two Switch models that Nintendo plans to sell this year.

Enlarge / These are the only two Switch models that Nintendo plans to sell this year.

Nintendo says it won't be releasing another new version of the Switch this year. "Regarding Nintendo Switch, we believe that it is important to continue to communicate the appeal of both Nintendo Switch systems and expand the installed base," CEO Shuntaro Furukawa said in an investor briefing following an earnings report. "Please note that we have no plans to launch a new Nintendo Switch model during 2020."

The announcement counters multiple reports from the past 12 months that suggested Nintendo was looking into a more powerful Switch model with an improved OS, image rendering, and usability functions. A Nikkei report from April suggested that this "enhanced" version of the system was still in the early planning stages, though, and didn't even have anyone assigned to head its development at the time.

Will the Switch fall behind?

The hardware inside the Nvidia Tegra-based Switch is distinctly less powerful than the Xbox One or PS4, despite launching years later than Sony's and Microsoft's larger TV-based consoles. That power gap is even more pronounced for the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X and is set to widen even further later this year with the release of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X.

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