Nintendo Switch 2 speculation heats up again as 4K support spotted in Paper Mario: Code of the Thousand-Year Door
It’s time for another round of Nintendo Switch 2 speculation, as one of the latest Switch games, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, reportedly supports 4K resolution in its code base. Spotted by dataminer RibShark, a section of game code refers to a resolution of 3840 x 2160, or 4K. RibShark writes: “There appears to be […]
It’s time for another round of Nintendo Switch 2 speculation, as one of the latest Switch games, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, reportedly supports 4K resolution in its code base.
Spotted by dataminer RibShark, a section of game code refers to a resolution of 3840 x 2160, or 4K. RibShark writes: “There appears to be code to handle 4K resolutions in the new Paper Mario TTYD redo. I don’t know if this is normal for Switch games or not, but I thought it was interesting.”
After hearing about the discovery, users took to social media to speculate about the usefulness of the code in question. Some point out that the Switch’s successor is potentially capable of not only supporting 4K resolutions, but will also be able to enhance existing Nintendo Switch games via backwards compatibility patches.
However, it is entirely possible that the truth is much more mundane. This support for 4K resolution might just allow Nintendo to take high-quality screenshots for press and marketing materials. This is something we’ve seen with previous Nintendo Switch titles, such as Sports on Nintendo Switch.
We still don’t know exactly what to expect from the Nintendo Switch successor, including whether or not it will be capable of producing resolutions up to 4K. That said, company president Shuntaro Furukawa recently hinted that the Nintendo Switch 2 moniker was an “appropriate” way to describe the upcoming hardware.
Last year’s shareholder Q&A sessions also shed light on the possibility of the Nintendo Switch 2 being backwards compatible. If this turns out to be true, it means that enhancement patches for existing Nintendo Switch titles are certainly not out of the question. And in this case, perhaps there is some truth in the future console supporting higher resolutions.
