A datamine for the new Paper Mario: Thousand-Year Door remake has information suggesting a Switch 2 port is on the way. There's still no official word on the Nintendo Switch successor, but this could mean it's very close.
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A screenshot of the datamine was posted to Reddit on May 23. The image shows code that suggests Paper Mario: Thousand-Year Door will be able to support 4K resolution. Anyone who owns a Nintendo Switch knows that the console can’t handle anything even close to 4K resolution. So what’s the purpose of this support? There are a few theories.
Some fans say the 4K support is only for promotional screenshots. Dev kits will be able to run Paper Mario: Thousand-Year Door at a higher resolution, and those gameplay images will look significantly better than screenshots from the Switch.
The most exciting theory is that this 4K support proves that Paper Mario: Thousand-Year Door was preemptively optimized for the Switch 2's hardware. Some game journalists over at the Digital Foundry podcast speculate that the game was intended as a Switch 2 launch title before the console's apparent delay. So Paper Mario: Thousand-Year Door was intended for the next-gen, but fell victim to Nintendo's messed-up 2024 release schedule.
