| farlaff said: Would it now be possible to add extra juice to the dock of a potential "Switch 2"? Or is that still a bit too unpractical in the engineering department? |
Is it possible? Certainly.
It is practical? No.
And the same reasoning I gave prior to the Switch being revealed, still holds true in 2023.
You would need to abandon USB on the bottom of the Switch as it lacks the bandwidth and has far to high latency for it to be feasible.
And then you have costs. - Adding an extra chipset and memory buffer to a dock is expensive, Nintendo isn't known for premium high-cost hardware, they are a little more conservative on this front.
I think the best we can hope for is increased clock-rate frequencies thanks to higher TDP's being viable...
The dock could in theory have an additional "blower cooler" to blow air through the Switch 2 in order to reduce temperatures and increase clockrates, rather than bolster the cooling in the handheld itself, keeping size and weight manageable for the successor.
But that is probably the extent of it.
| Wman1996 said: -Splitting Nintendo in two once more and making a home console and handheld. Nintendo home consoles have a spotty sales record (the N64 underperformed, the GameCube straddled the line between an outright failure and a slight success, and the Wii U bombed), and I don't want to buy two systems again every gen to play their games. |
In my opinion it's a missed opportunity not having a "Switch TV" or Switch fixed-home console with the Switch's internal components... Could be sold at a fraction of the cost by not having Joycons, Display, Battery, Dock and more.
The Switch could have been a series of devices and form factors all able to play the same games... They got half way there with the dedicated handheld.
I don't think Nintendo will go back to supporting Multiple different hardware platforms, it's logistically difficult... They are a mobile gaming company in my eyes now. (Which isn't a bad thing.)
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