Switch Docking Station for 90€. Why?

[JEMC]

Slimebeast said:

Peh said:

So, that little piece of plastic and a few interface like USB-C, USB, HDMI and Power Connector will have a cost of around 90€.

Why is it so extraordinary expensive? Stuff like that would be around 30€ or less. I don't understand why it would be so damn expensive?

Could you explain more? Where does it say that it costs 90 Dollars?

Plus what does it contain? Does it contain a GPU? What about it is it that makes it run games at 1080p instead of 720p in mobile mode? I still don't understand this.

Perhaps our own hardware expert JEMC can be of help here.

I'm far, very far from being a hardware expert.

Peh has already answered where the 90 Dollars price comes from and the reason it runs the games at 1080p vs 720p while in handheld mode is not because the dock has extra hardware (as far as we know), but because the Switch will run at higher clocks when docked as it won't rely on the battery alone.