How big is the size of the Nintendo switch? It becomes like this when we measure it by power

Next-generation aircraft Nintendo was wrapped in a mystery for a long time "Nintendo Switch(Nintendo switch) "on 20th October 2016AnnouncementDid. The official movie released at the same time as the announcement included the video of the Nintendo switch body, and the size of the Nintendo switch was analyzed by IT-related media Ars Technica from the video.

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Ars Technica pays attention to the stick of the controller called Joicon, which was reflected in the official movie. According to Ars Technica, the size of the sticks installed in the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Wii U controllers are all unified to 17 to 18 mm in width, and based on this, Joicon and dedicated controller , The size of the tablet part (Nintendo switch body) was measured. The size of the Joicon model alone (the part on both ends of the tablet) removed from the tablet has a maximum width of 34.3 × length of 106.4 mm.


The size of the tablet itself is maximum 184.1 × vertical 106.4 mm. It is bigger than iPhone 7 Plus of 158.2 x 77.9 mm in width, it feels like it is smaller than iPad mini 4 of 203.2 x 140.8 mm wide.


It seems that the feeling of size is the closest in portable game machinesPlayStation VitaOf 183.6 × 85.1 mm in length. However, since the whole body of the Nintendo switch is a display, it seems to be as big as the size of PlayStation Vita. Furthermore, it is Nintendo's portable game machineNintendo 3DS LLThe size when folded is 160 × 93.5 mm in width.

The size when Joicon is mounted on the tablet is the maximum of 253.4 × vertical 106.4 mm.


The size of the controller dedicated to using the Joicon is seen as a horizontal maximum of 157.5 × 115.8 mm.


As for what is inside the Nintendo switch,It turned out to be equipped with NVIDIA's Tegra processorAlready. The Tegra processor on the Nintendo switch is customized and includes the NVIDIA GPU of the same architecture as the GeForce gaming graphics card.

NVIDIA's Tegra processor is an SoC for smartphones and tablet terminals developed based on the ARM architecture. Nintendo switches are the few stationary game machines that adopted the ARM architecture as many home game machines adopt SoC developed on the basis of PC x86 architecture.


Game related mediaGameSpotAccording to the Nintendo switch adopting the ARM architecture, it is difficult to port games for PlayStation 4 (PS 4) and Xbox One. The key performance is unknown because the Tegra processor installed in the Nintendo switch is a customized model for this device.

As anticipated from the sentence "NVIDIA GPU of the same architecture as GeForce gaming graphics card" included in NVIDIA announcement that Tegra processor was adopted as a Nintendo switch, the Tegra processor of the Nintendo switch , It is thought that it adopts the same Pascal architecture as NVIDIA's GeForce 10 series.