In theory could switch have a more powerful dock released

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Vor said:

Captain_Yuri said:
No cause afaik, there is no cpu/gpu inside the dock. And I m sure Nintendo will make it mandatory for games to work in both portable and docked mode since that is its most unique feature.

If this's true, that's made me have another question.

If the dock is nothing more than a simple usb c connector to connect to HDMI and AC adapter, can we have a "docklike" performance simply by charging it? I mean it should be the same right?

There can be but it is dependent on how Nintendo and Nvidia are doing it. 

For example, iphones have lightning adapters in order for them to charge but lightning adapters need to be certified by apple. If the lightning adapter is not certified by apple, the iphone will detect that and tell you that it is not certified by apple and I believe it will stop charging the phone in some cases.

So if the Switch requires a dock with a certain chip inside it that tells the Switch that it can now use all its additional power, then we can't have the docklike performance on any charger. However, if the Switch is designed to use the additional power as long as it is above a certain threshold, then we can use any adapter as long as it can push the amount of watts the Switch needs. And of course, since I am assuming you are talking about handheld mode with docklike performance, the Switch has to be able to detect that there is no HDMI out so it shouldn't turn off its screen.

So it is possible, just depends on how Nintendo and Nvidia implemented it.