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Chrkeller said:
Oneeee-Chan!!! said:

The Switch2 performance being discussed here should be based on performance when plugged in with no battery constraints, not portable.

Steam Deck can be portable and run at 15w TDP, in which case battery life would be extremely poor.

Why?  Isn't being portable one of the main points of the Switch?  I don't see Nintendo (or other developers) making games for the Switch that effectively require being docked.  Games will be developed based on battery and when dock there will be slight improvements, but nothing earth shattering.  

Portable mode will always dictate what can be done with any hardware, if battery life is accounted for.

But if Switch 2 is designed better than Switch, especially for better cooling while docked, they can allow for much better performance in docked mode than what they did with Switch - my memory is bit rusty, but IIRC official docked Switch clocks are something like 1020/768/1600MHz for CPU/GPU/Memory - yet overclocked Switch can run at much higher clocks for all 3, Nintendo just doesn't allow it.