Switch 2 Will Support DLSS Upscaling And Hardware Ray Tracing, Nintendo Confirms
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While Nintendo isn’t intending to market the Switch 2 as high-performance hardware, the upcoming console still has quite a few new tricks up its sleeve, including Nvidia-powered DLSS upscaling and hardware ray tracing.
Nintendo confirmed the Switch 2’s support for DLSS upscaling in a Q&A session following the Switch 2 direct. Takuhiro Dohta from Nintendo’s Entertainment Planning and Development Department said the Switch 2 will use Nvidia’s upscaling tech, and that it is “something that we will continue to use as we develop games.”
“When it comes to the hardware, [the Switch 2] is able to output to a TV at a max of 4K,” Dohta explained. “Whether or not the software developer is going to use that as a native resolution or get it to a smaller res and then upscale is something that the software developer can choose. I think it opens up a lot of options for the software developer.”
