shikamaru317 said:
Yes, though they can go even further than they did on Switch 1. Switch 1 docked is only about double the handheld specs. They could in theory go with an even more expensive and powerful chipset, something like 4.5 tflops (about Xbox Series S tier) when docked but only like 1.5 tflops (about SteamDeck tier) in handheld mode. They just have to be willing to pay for a chipset that powerful and design a good docked cooling solution to make sure it doesn't overheat, some extra fans on the dock itself that feed cool air into the handheld air intake should do it. |
Would likely result in the dock, being akin to how it is now + a wire that goes to the box part that holds the extra hardware.
So the dock would be a bigger thing. Also if Nintendo spends like 100$ extra on the dock, to give it hardware (say half the GPU is in there, otherhalf inside the handheld part), and that would drive up the total packageing price for a Switch 2 by those 100$ then (might be a small price to pay to double the GPU performance).
The "easy" road, is just to make the Switch 2, the same way they did the first Switch.
The CPU+GPU just clocks up higher when docked.
Maybe the hope should be that include good active cooling in the new dock instead? so they can push cpu+gpu abit harder when docked?
