Exploring the Latest Mario Game on the Nintendo Switch 2: What Players Have Found

Game news Anything new on the Nintendo Switch 2? Players looked inside the latest Mario video game and made a great discovery

Paper Mario The Millennium Door studied in depth

Paper Mario: The Millennium Door was released today on Nintendo Switch and it's already being dissected by players. In addition to the multiple comparisons with the original game (which is already seeing translation changes emerge), it is even in its architecture that the game is analyzed. On his personal blog, one of the players discovered something he thought was worth sharing. A few hours later, it was the Nintendo Prime user who relayed it on Twitter:

The Thousand Year Door codebase supports 4K resolution. The Nintendo Switch does not support 4K resolution. You can do the math, I'm sure! Via Necro Felipe, Mastodon

In fact, we observe three different pairs (v9; v10) in the shared image. They all form a very specific image resolution: 720p with 1280*720; 1080p (full HD) with 1920*1080; but also 4K since 3840*2160 is displayed. However, the higher the resolution, the better what is displayed on the screen (since it contains more pixels).

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4K for the next Switch? It is also not certain

Such a discovery is exciting: the first shortcut that we can find is to say that this Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door seems to be planned in 4K at some point. However, the current Nintendo Switch is not natively compatible (naturally one might say) with such a resolution. We then immediately think of Nintendo's next console, made official recently by the president of the company himself. Two weeks ago, Shuntarô Furukawa declared :

This is Furukawa, president of Nintendo. We will make an announcement regarding the successor to Nintendo Switch during this fiscal year.

The successor to the Nintendo Switch does indeed exist, but it will still be a while before we get our hands on it. Only an announcement is planned for the current fiscal year (ending April 30 in Japan), in no way guaranteeing the release of the new console immediately. In the same way, it is also not certain today that the little sister of the Switch can display 4K natively. The discovery shared above would only facilitate the porting of several games in 4K for another console… but not necessarily the next one to come.