Switch Docking Station for 90€. Why?

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Knitemare said:

JEMC said:

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.

So its basically a DLC ON DISC that they will charge for in order for us to take advantage.

I mean, if there is no more tech, just a chip that activates the overclock... Then they're no different from Capcom's RE's on Disc DLC...

It is not a DLC on disc. The Switch hardware works at full capacity in docking mode and downclocks in handheld mode, so you can play Zelda "unplugged" for 3 hours instead of only 1 hour.

The PSP was also downclocked from 333 MHz to 222 MHz at first and locked the highest brightness setting (when unplugged) to offer a better battery life.