A US legal patent, filed by Nintendo in July 2023 and made public on December 31 2024, has revealed an interesting new feature that may be used in the Switch 2.
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This machine learning method allows hardware, in layman’s terms, to fill the gaps in video game graphics.
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The patent itself, which you can read here, is quite technical in its descriptions and illustrative diagrams.
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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”.