New Standard Nintendo Switch Revision Offers Significantly Improved Battery Life Nintendo Life

A new revision of the same old Switch SKU is being shown on Nintendo's Japanese website and its American counterpart. Not to be burdened with the Nintendo Switch Lite, this hardware variation would seem to rejig a number of the consoles innards for better battery overall performance.

Available in mid-August, it doesn't seem to trade the outward look of the present day console in any manner, however consistent with Nintendo's website the battery receives a fairly hefty boom from a median of 2.5 to 6.5 hours with the cutting-edge version to 4.5 to 9 hours with this model:

The real time will range relying on the software you are playing. The website highlights that the present day model will final approximately 3 hours at the same time as gambling The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, while the up to date console need to closing around 5.5 hours. Not bad for a 'silent' replace!

You'll have the ability to tell the models aside by means of the updated packaging, so that you shouldn't ought to pass attempting to find serial numbers on the again of the field (although as you can see from the above photograph, the new serial numbers will start with "XKW" in preference to the "XAW" of the modern version).

This 'silent' revision appears to apply the same battery as before which supports the theory that this version carries the updated 'Mariko' verison of the Tegra X1 chip that the Switch Lite reportedly uses. This not only closes the security holes discovered with the original chip, however additionally gives progressed thermals because of operating at a decrease voltage (which additionally produces those now not-insignificant battery gains).

Will you be buying and selling on your OG Switch for an almost-identical one with higher battery existence? Let us recognise if you're tempted or in case you'd as an alternative watch for a 'Pro' version with a remark.

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//www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/07/new_standard_nintendo_switch_revision_offers_significantly_improved_battery_life
2019-07-17 12:35:00Z
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