Switch RTX! (Nintendo would probably forgo real-time ray tracing and go for DLSS as the above poster proposed.)
Oh, and maybe fix/replace the Joy-Cons. However the Joy-Cons are made, their quality has been disappointing. I had to send mine in for replacement once I started using the Switch in handheld mode for Animal Crossing this year. What hurt the most is that before it was a pretty even split between Joy-Cons and the Switch Pro Controller, so ~3 years of 50/50 use was enough for mine to drift. It's technically marvelous that Nintendo was able to fit so much in to the tiny package of the Joy-Cons, but... probably in the top running for worst Nintendo controller in general? (Well, if a person despises motion controls, I guess that will always be the Wii remote + nunchuk.)
The Nvidia Tegra X1 chips in the Switch were 2-years-old when the Switch was released in 2017, and really disappointed/disillusioned the folks that were really hoping for some secret mobile top-performer hardware or Nvidia mobile chips that were based on the then-new Pascal architecture. So, a Switch successor with a new Nvidia solution powering it will be a good leap. When you see games like Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity or Daemon X Machina chug on the Switch, it will be nice to have some more powerful hardware to smooth things out.
The trouble is what Nintendo will be thinking in terms of timing and forwards/backwards compatibility. Will they go with how Microsoft Xbox is doing? Or do they "believe in generations" as much as Sony PlayStation is? Or will they find a "Nintendo-like Solution" to muck everything up?
Also, it's a bit of coin-flip if Nintendo is even interested in only a straight-power bump. The last time that happened was from the NES to the SNES. For me, I'm kinda hoping for a straight power-bump for whatever hybrid system comes after the Switch. Also, I hope that is soon; Switch is starting to feel very rickety when I start looking in to the latest System-on-a-Chip solutions for the latest gamer smartphones or what Apple is doing with their ARM based Macbooks.
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