Switch 2 will probably a bit stronger than Xbone in power, not Series S. The current more powerful chipset belongs to Steam Deck, doubt Nintendo will go mich further than that. Switch need other hardware components to work, joycons with gyro, a dock, etc and Switch 2 is likely to have other kind of gimmick to increase costs. I think Nintendo will keep their 300 USD price strategy and Nintendo has a more fiscally conservative approach of not selling hardware at loss
The reason I think they will keep their 300 USD is because handheld gamers won't pay ~500 USD in a Switch 2 right off the bat and from 2018 data at least 30% of Switch userbase were firstly handheld gamers, although Nintendo can keep a strategy of first releasing a hybrid version to console gamers and later a less expensive version to handheld gamers. In this case I can see Switch 2 coming closer to Series S-ish in therms of raw Power (with docked included). This is enough to secure Switch 2 to run pretty much any 9th game docked I think, unless we see in the end of the generation games released exclusively to Series X (which I doubt, as series S is currently outselling X version seems a pretty large userbase to studios ignore)
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