SWITCH Rumor Round-up

[JEMC]

Soundwave said:

JEMC said:

Extra power is not the only reason to dock the NX to play at home.

Play on TV while you're charging the device is one, and not having to worry about running out of juice is another. Usually, gameplay sessions with home consoles are longer than handheld ones (at least while playing on the go). Has your Wii U gamepad ever run out of juice while playing? It's annoying as hell.

Not everything has to have a secret intention.

Forcing it to have to be docked still makes no sense. 

Want to charge while playing? Just plug it into a wall charger with a cable. Forcing the whole unit to be stuck into a home dock/base unit means the screen will be virtually useless at home. What if you want to play Splatoon? Mario Maker?

When my iPad is low on battery I don't "dock it" and sit around waiting for it to recharge, I just plug it in to a charger and continue using it. 

IMO there probably is more to this docked mode thing if it indeed has a dock. 

One power mode for a device like this doesn't even make sense. 720p for example is overkill for a portable, it should downclock to 540p or 600p to conserve power, the image quality you get on a 6-7 inch display is good enough at that resolution anyway. But 540p is going to look terrible on a 50+ inch HDTV display. 

I think the smartest setup is to have the chipset ejectable into the home dock. The home dock is basically just a cooling bay + HDMI out which allows the chip to now run at full 100% performance (say 800GFLOP-1 TFLOP). 

You can still use the screen + controller part of the NX while at home no problem. That is a far more functional and sensible setup. Portable mode then can run at lower resolutions/graphic modes to conserve battery. 

You're trying to picture a reality that suits what you believe or want to believe.

Docking the NX makes a lot of sense if Nintendo wants a way to expand the NX storage capacity, offer a simple (and also affordable) way to connect NX to the TV via a simple HDMI cable and give the user a place to just leave the thing when not in use that also recharges it.

About your ejectable processor... are you nuts? If Nintendo does all those things NX will be too expensive and a complete failure because no one will buy it. You are forgetting that NX needs to have an attractive price, and all those things you're asking for only increase the total cost of the device.