There have been rumors about the new Nintendo Switch for some time, but NVIDIA, which supplies chips to Nintendo, has begun recruiting engineers related to home video game consoles. There is a possibility that preparations are finally in full swing.
Since last weekend, NVIDIA has posted a job advertisement for “Game Console Developer Tools Engineer” on LinkedIn, a business-specific social network. The recruited personnel are software engineers who “have deep technical, creativity, and practical skills to develop the next generation of graphics developer tools for game consoles.”
His main task is to work with the NVIDIA Graphics Tools team to build tools that enable developers around the world to take full advantage of the power of NVIDIA GPUs. In addition, low-level language programmers (who can handle assembly language closer to machine language, etc.) are gathered to “provide the best experience for game developers who want to debug and optimize games”.
In this classified ad, we’re also looking for someone who knows the tricks of “tuning / optimizing GPU low-level performance”, especially with “allowing developers to achieve higher and more stable frame rates”. It has been added.
If you take a closer look, it’s hardware that needs to get the most out of its less powerful GPUs … so it’s less performant than its competitors (to make it usable on both stationary and mobile). ) It seems to match the game console of Nintendo.
The Nintendo Switch is also the only current game console that uses NVIDIA processors (both PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X / S use AMD chips), a game hardware company that provides NVIDIA’s “next generation” developer tools. It seems that there is only one.
Last August, NVIDIA was also looking for DLSS 2.0 technicians for game consoles. DLSS is a technology that renders on a rough screen and displays it with a quality comparable to a high-definition screen, and realizes (apparent) high image quality even with a processor that does not have much power. This also seems to be a technology suitable for Nintendo hardware with modest processing power.
There is no doubt that Nintendo is preparing “the next game hardware for Nintendo Switch”, but when will it be released? Considering that the processor installed in the current Nintendo Switch is “a generation close to the iPhone 7 in 2016”, there may be movement within the last 1-2 years.
Source:LinkedIn
via:Wccftech
