Im not trying to compare PC to consoles, iv stated there different, however the same games are designed with 2gigs in mind. Consoles dont need 8gigs of System Ram to run games. PCs do because there not pure gaming consoles. Switch has 4gigs, 2 for gaming and possibly another 2 to do everything else. The console makers allocate more Ram than required that doesnt mean Devs utlise all the Ram required. Some do and mainly exclusives but 3rd party dont and thats the important part. Switch isnt trying to run PS or X1 Exclusives, its trying to run 3rd party games that are alot more versitale with hardware configurations.

No, some games (old/indie) run on PC's with just 1gb of ram, thus the PC's os uses <1gb of ram. Playing a more powerful game on PC doesn't increase the amount the OS needs. If a game says it requires 8gb of ram, it's using the majority of that for the game, so it not being a "pure gaming console" is irrelevant.

Windows doesn't just decide "oh he's playing a demanding game, so our OS is now going to take up 6gb of ram."

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Second GPU in dock ? Cloud computing with dock ?

No to both.

No to the first one, enormous no to the second one.

Do you know USB-C thunderbolt ? 5 Gio / s...  A little more than PCI E 16X... 

Have you read something about " Supplemental Computing Devices "

Take a moment to go and see GRID and TESLA Nvidia technology....

Now now, no reason to be condescending. There are many reasons why those are infeasable, from the common ones, such as this arrangement making game development much more difficult, to another GPU that would make any difference being expensive for what the switch is, to specific reasons, such as Nintendo being a dinosaur with just about anything that is related to online features.

I used to support the idea of a second gpu in the dock, but thinking about it now, it is good that it's not there.

Just because something is technologically possible doesn't mean you have to think it will be used in the Switch. USB-C is fast, I know that's great. Doesn't mean I think there'll be a gpu or cpu in the dock.

The idea of Nintendo using Cloud Computing is just funny.

If the Switch can handle multiplats at the equivalent of the pc versions' low settings I think receiving ports will be easy enough for third parties. If it can't then probably forget it except in specific cases like sports games where they can use the PS360 engines.

Xen, barkley,

Nintendo follow his own way... I think Nintendo don't want making live like Microsoft or Sony, Nintendo want making a Community, selling small server for true cloud computing Community...
To make that, Nintendo have waiting internet networks are enough mature to support a cloud système no centralized, a real repartission tasks, a real cloud...
This will eliminate the latency associated with the geographical distance and allow Nintendo to keep online without a subscription ...

This is explained on the patent supplemental computing device and what can be done with the NVIDIA TESLA and GRID technology ..
Things are not made at random, and I doubt that nintendo has invested 500 million dollards in research and development in 2015 to make a detachable pad