Soundwave said:
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. |
Yeah, I've seen videos of overclocked Switch going to something like 2400 on Memory (OLED model) and 1500+ on GPU, with TotK running at 60fps.
So great cooling in dock might be just the right thing to let Switch 2 "go wild" when docked.
