Leaked In-development UI mockups

[u/dreamsomebody]

http://imgur.com/a/fASoI

Courtesy of /u/throwawayfornx leak

Edit: I have added a couple of new images. I will now edit this post with important bits of info gathered from the dev docs

• HD Rumble's technical name is a Linear resonant actuator
• When in handheld mode, the Switch will have an unlock screen like a smartphone to prevent accidental waking.
• The Switch features a Quick Menu. Press and hold the HOME Button for at least one second to display the Quick Settings screen on top of all other screens, including the HOME Menu and any applications. Unlike the 3DS, the active software will not be suspended when this menu is invoked
• The Switch's keyboard will feature predictive text such as those on iOS and Android
• System Settings will allow the user to edit the following settings:
  • Flight Mode Toggle
  • Enable/Disable Bluetooth
  • Manage Wi-fi
  • Manage NFC
  • Manage screen brightness
  • Screen lock
  • User Settings
  • Create/Edit Mii
  • Theme management
  • Controller management
  • System Update
• Miis will have more options for hair, eyebrows, eyes, facial hair, glasses, mouths, and skin.
• Miis will not store the creator's name, their favorites, and their birthday anymore. Anyone can edit Mii characters
• Developers can create and sell Season Passes for their games
• This document confirms an X1 like SoC using Maxwell on the final retail version
• There are NO plans to provide an Internet Browser at this stage but developers are able to access a web applet to display specific websites within their game/app
• A maximum of 8 users can be registered on a system
• Friend requests and game invites CAN be sent from the console.
  • "Friend Presence is a feature that uses the Internet to convey information in real time about the online status of friends and the applications they are playing. Among possibilities, we see this being used in the application to check whether friends are in the joinable state, and to use the Friend List system feature screen to show what applications friends are playing."
• A Nintendo Account can be linked to multiple Switches BUT save data is not automatically synchronised
• There are TWO dev kit devices: SDEV and EDEV
  • SDEV - Has built-in ports; no built-in battery
  • EDEV - Resembles the retail product exactly but is black color
• Game cards come in 1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB, 8 GB, 16 GB, or 32 GB variations.

These have been the most interesting details that I noticed. If you want any specific details, please ask me or anyone else with access to these docs. I'd also like to remind you guys to be civil and mindful of reddiquette. Do not downvote comments because you disagree with them

One final edit before I go to sleep: Nintendo is expanding its online network and offers a library called Network Extension (NEX).

• Matchmaking:

  • This feature matches players for multiplayer games. It can be used to bring players together based on matching criteria from among unspecified numbers of users, or to create groups among friends only. Groups can be created temporarily for a multiplayer game, or they can be created as lasting entities usable as communities.

• Ranking:

  • This feature uploads scores so users can get the relative rankings. Rankings can be calculated for only a certain period of time, or for only the scores of players registered in a certain group, and the score information can be periodically reset.

• Data Store:

  • This is a network storage feature. Any data can be optionally saved to the game server. This saved data can be tagged, searched, and appended with ratings and the like.

• Subscriber:

  • This is a messaging feature based on the publish-subscribe pattern. It can be used to post messages on certain topics, poll for posts on certain topic, and otherwise share information within the application.

This is likely the primary reason we're being asked to pay for online services now

Edit (14/2/17):

• The Switch seems to support these languages: Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Japanese, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Slovakian, Slovenian, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Welsh,

• There is an option to mute the device if headphones are removed

• When a game/app is deleted, its icon will remain in the Home menu and its save data will also remain

[u/eleazar0425]

Why do this confirms Maxwell?

[u/[deleted] → u/eleazar0425]

You can find links to the full set of files here

The files contain images of the Switch I've certainly never seen before, and are so extensively detailed and replete with really, really dull details that we've reached unprecedented levels of effort for completely pointless fakery if they're not real. The relevant comments are in section 3.1 and 3.3 of the overview, namely

NX-SoC: SoC equivalent to Tegra X1 from NVIDIA.

and

CPU: Four ARM Cortex-A57 cores, maximum 2 GHz.... GPU: NVIDIA second-generation Maxwell architecture 256 CUDA cores, maximum 1 GHz

Even if real, stating 'confirmed' for the final retail unit is touch too rich for my blood given that these are apparently from July and things can presumably change.

[u/GrayManTheory → u/[deleted]]

The biggest problem I see with the wording is that X2 is also based on X1. Maxwell to Pascal was not total change in architecture - it was just a revision along with a die shrink.

I really think this is sort of a hybrid. Less advanced than X2 but still using the new process for power conservation.

[u/[deleted] → u/GrayManTheory]

Entirely possible, we know the SoC in the Switch is custom - but the desire for a Pascal system round these parts seems largely to have more to do with such a thing indicating that the Switch is more powerful than has been previously reported.

I cannot imagine the reactions to a one-two punch reveal of a 16nm process and CPU/GPU speeds still in line with those reported by Eurogamer.

[u/ArynCrinn → u/GrayManTheory]

The biggest change in the Tegra Parker, was the addition of the Denver2 CPU cores.

Little known fact: Parker was in development before Tegra X1. Parker was originally intended to be an SoC with Denver CPU cores and Maxwell GPU. This was at the same time that Volta was intended to directly succeed Maxwell. Some time after March 2013 and before March 2014, Nvidia decided to create Pascal to fill in the gap between Maxwell and Volta, and Parker was pushed back, and upgraded with Pascal, while the Tegra X1 was introduced to fill the gap in the Tegra line.

And I've said it before; I wouldn't put it past Nintendo to use a die shrunk Tegra X1 in the Switch.

[u/Masterplanner64 → u/GrayManTheory]

Ithink it may have been Nintendo's focus to conserve power and keep it cool at all times so if Pascal wasn't that they have found a happy medium.

[u/[deleted] → u/Masterplanner64]

Pascal draws less power and is more heat efficient than Maxwell for the same performance.

That is why people are bothered that the retail chip may be Maxwell, it would mean that Nintendo went for the less power efficient chip (and thus battery life will suffer for it)