Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang sings praises of processor in Nintendo Switch 2

Nintendo’s Switch 2 launch is happening tomorrow evening, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, a key supplier for the hybrid console, sang the praises of the machine and its main processor today.

“For all of us at Nvidia, we’ve worked with Nintendo for more than a decade, drawn together by shared that technology should serve creativity and that joy is worth engineering for,” said Huang. “I still remember the day Iwata san shared his dream with us.”

It’s touching that Huang, whose company has moved on to great heights with the AI revolution, remembers Nvidia’s roots in gaming.

Huang said Satoru Iwata, the former CEO of Nintendo who passed away from cancer, wanted to create something no one had seen before, a console powerful enough for big, cinematic games, but small enough to take anywhere.

“It sounded impossible, but that vision became the original Nintendo Switch. We ...