The Nintendo Switch secrets that may sit inside Nvidia’s Shield

Nintendo has a new console coming in March, and it is running on some familiar hardware. This could give us some idea of what to expect from the new system.

When Nintendo unveiled the Switch on Thursday, Nvidia also came out and revealed it is working on the hybrid home/handheld console. The new dedicated gaming device features a custom Tegra processor, which is the same family of chips that are in the Nvidia Shield tablet and Shield console. This chip is nearly as powerful as the standard Xbox One. It can run high-definition last-gen games, like Portal, at 1080p and 60 frames per second. And the games Nintendo showed off in the Switch debut trailer definitely looked that beautiful. An updated, custom version of the Tegra could likely handle games like Civilization VI or even Doom 2016. We can speculate that the Switch can handle beefy games because the Tegra X1 that is in Nvidia products already can.