Nintendo patent hints towards a brilliant Switch 2 feature that should make games look, and perform, better | VG247
The patent itself, which you can read here, is quite technical in its descriptions and illustrative diagrams. However, if you take the time to go through it, there are interesting tidbits sprinkled throughout. As accessibility consultant Laura Kate Dale points out on Bluesky, the patent states this tech could reduce the size of games, to better fit on "smaller capacity physical media". Laura correctly makes the connection to Switch carts, which currently have a max capacity of 32GB. machine learning image conversions may allow for "bigger" games to fit natively on smaller capacity physical hardware.
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