Global Hardware 15 December 2018

[DonFerrari]

Shiken said:

DonFerrari said:

The dock provides energy and cooling. It doesn't grant any special feature to Switch. If someone hacked his switch to run full performance without the dock would then it become the desktop console even holding in the hand? Also Nintendo is selling it without dock in Japan.

And you fall in the same trap of OTBWY of confusing direct and indirect competitors.

If PS4 wasn't in the market X1 would sell much more and vice-versa (you having both is irrelevant). If Switch didn't launch neither PS4 nor X1 would have sold much more.

The dock does not provide any more power than just the AC adapter itself.  It also does not provide cooling as the fans and everything that does the work is in the Switch itself.  The only thing the dock does is send a signal to trigger console mode in the Switch.

You basically prove my point.  The fact the the dock does nothing special is exactly why it is classified as both.  The console and portable functions are native to the device itself and in theory, yes you could hack it to output docked level performance in handheld (albiet at higher battery consumption).

The fact that you have to hack it however is where your argument falls flat.  It was not designed to operate that way and you are altering its very form factor to make it something else.

So if you are claiming the only thing the dock do is activate a trigger then it is basically not necessary as that call could be made without it (even without power outlet).

So again all you are showing is that Switch is indeed a handheld that you can connect to TV and play some ports of the consoles other companies get.

Mandalore76 said:

DonFerrari said:

The dock provides energy and cooling. It doesn't grant any special feature to Switch. If someone hacked his switch to run full performance without the dock would then it become the desktop console even holding in the hand? Also Nintendo is selling it without dock in Japan.

And you fall in the same trap of OTBWY of confusing direct and indirect competitors.

If PS4 wasn't in the market X1 would sell much more and vice-versa (you having both is irrelevant). If Switch didn't launch neither PS4 nor X1 would have sold much more.

You mean the Switch that is specifically named "Switch 2nd Unit Set" and is marketed specifically to households that already own a Switch and therefore already have the dock?  The Switch 2nd Unit Set doesn't even come with a charger for this reason.  The buyer it is marketed towards is specifically assumed to already have a dock in their home.  The 2nd unit set is the cheap option to get a 2nd Switch into the consumer's home.

You can buy and use it even without the dock. They may also at some point sell standalone docks so you can hook up to other TVs in the house.

kirby007 said:
Spiderman bundles are counted just like wii sports was

Every company will count the bundled SW. What was the point of this post? Most of the sales of Spiderman were unbundled.