So... something big 'apparently' appears to be coming from Nintendo

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jason1637 said:

TruckOSaurus said:
I was under the impression the current switch dock was nothing more than a piece of plastic holding the cables in place and providing the easy TV connection without affecting the console's power at all.

The dock gives the Switch a power bump making it slightly more powerful. That's why games like Splatoon 2 looks better docked than on handheld mode.

No it doesn't. The dock is just a big piece of plastic with outputs for usb/hdmi/power cables. The Switch runs in a low power mode when not docked in order to preserve battery life, when docked it is plugged in and so runs to its full capabtilities, the dock itself doesn't do anything. The dock is just a big adaptor, in fact you can even buy a third party adaptor that is the size of a normal adaptor dongle thing instead of using the dock. The dock simply holds the switch and connects it to power and the tv.