Nintendo Switch Lite Officially Revealed - $199, September 20th, Dedicated Handheld

[thetonestarr]

Barkley said:

Mr.GameCrazy said:

The Switch Lite can connect to normal Joy-Cons.

This is what it says about Game Compatibility: 

"Nintendo Switch Lite can play the games in the Nintendo Switch library that support handheld mode.

For games that do not support handheld mode, players can wirelessly connect compatible controllers (sold separately) to Nintendo Switch Lite.

Just look for the “handheld mode” icon:"

So... it does support tabletop... why do they say it doesn't then contradict themselves underneath. xD

I am baffled why it doesn't support dock then, I mean I know physically it might not fit but they could always release an adapter or new dock or something, my best guess now is that the cooling isn't good enough to run the clocks inside high enough for docked. Removing dock functionality shouldn't reduce production costs at all.

I'm guessing they mean that it can't support tabletop by default, and that you just have to have a separate controller to use tabletop mode. Awkward way of stating it though.

I theorize that it actually CAN support "docked" mode too and that they just don't have any plans to release a physically compatible dock station, but if somebody modified their existing dock for it, or tried using a third-party dock, that it might still work.