Thunderbolt3/USB-C for NX Dock/SCD/Modularity?

[Cyran]

shikamaru317 said:

Cyran said:

Thunderbolt 3 is 40Gb/s notice the small b.  This is equilvent to 5 GB/s.  A PCI Express 3.0 X16 is 15.76 GB/s or 126 Gb/s.  Way faster then Thunderbolt 3.

small b usually repersent bits

Capital B usually repersents Bytes

There 8 bits in a Byte

Yeah, sorry about that. The page I was reading on Thunderbolt before I posed that had a typo, a large B instead of a small b. But regardless of the mistake, I still think Nintendo should put a Thunderbolt 3 port on the Swith Dock for future usage with an SCD. While a USB 3.0 based SCD might be enough for a GPU upgrade, it would never be enough to handle both a CPU and GPU upgrade. USB 3.0 is 5 Gbit/s, Thunderbolt 3 is 40 Gbit/s. Even USB 3.1 is 4 times slower than Thunderbolt 3. 

In theory it sounds goods, but I think if I was designing a modular console with the switch form factor, I would just sell dock stations with different hardware built in and use the port that connects the handhold portion to the dock as the connection instead of going with something like Thunderbolt.  You could design it as a direct PCI-E port or what ever fast interconnection that made sence.