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Nintendo Switch helps drive Nvidia’s Tegra revenue up 108% to $332 million

Nvidia is riding high on chips for games and artificial intelligence, but it also got a nice one-time boost from the launch of the Nintendo Switch video game console.

Nvidia’s Tegra processor serves as the brains of the Switch, which Nintendo launched in March. The Switch works both on the TV or as a portable device, and the power-efficient Tegra helps make that dual-play capability possible.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.