HoloDust said:
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. |
If there is a fan in the dock then it would seem to me like they are planning to allow for full performance dock and worked backwards from there. A fan in the dock on top of a fan inside the system already is overkill unless you are planning to go full tilt on performance.
There are workarounds to portable modes, even on the Switch 1 Nintendo allowed higher clocks for portable mode over time, and there's always a cheap way to add more performance portably. Add more battery, but batteries are dirt cheap components these days, a 4310 MaH battery is like $3 wholesale, probably less when you're ordering them in the millions.
If the Joycons are indeed increasing in size for example they could introduce a larger battery in the Joycons which the base unit could siphon power from as one example of a way to increase battery life, another way would be to just have a portable performance mode and offer an official, slim Nintendo battery pack for those kinds of games. It could be very cheap.
The dock having a fan certainly raises an eyebrow.
The other thing with Switch 2 is the reports of magnetic attachments being common on the system, well I mean you know what would be a very useful and easy accessorie? A slim, small battery pack that just magnetically attaches to the back of the system for example. Super simple to attach and remove. That would cost pretty very little but allow for performance profiles in handheld/undocked mode to increase dramatically.
Last edited by Soundwave - on 15 May 2024
