I just beat Link's Awakening for the 3rd time.  I'm saddened to know the sub 30 fps drops are intentional because Nintendo could easily lock it at 4k 60 fps but won't because they are assholes.  I never knew Nintendo was such a God awful anti consumer company.  

And to think this whole time I've praised them as being the best developer in gaming.  😞

LOL take a stand and just use emulation, don't let them rip you off, soundwave has showed us the light.

It's neither here nor there. 

COVID was a freak event that entirely changed the world and for Switch's product cycle, radically altered it. They probably figured to protect against a Wii-like 2nd half of the product cycle collapse they would need a Pro model, that was the initial plan circa 2017/2018. It just turned out by very random happenstance that it actually wasn't needed. 

Switch 2 is unlikely to have that same thing happen for it, so Switch 2 will have to likely have an actual Switch 2 Pro next time. You're not going to have an artificial massive boost for 2+ years with almost no major software released like the Switch did. Even the PS4/XB1 didn't really benefit much from COVID because it came too late in those product cycles, Switch was at the perfect age (only 3 years old) to make massive hay with it. It's like the difference between winning the lottery at age 30 instead of 75 ... at age 30 you can do a lot more with that windfall. 

Don't really care for excuses you make to defend your beloved company if the hardware was held back for no good reason which in reality wouldn't have made a difference, it's a shitty move by nintedno and really shows how crappy of a company they are.    

There is a good reason, you just don't like it, but if you were running their business I doubt you would do any differently. 

A Switch Pro that allowed games to run at 60 fps and potentially even some games at 4K (and there is a video that shows definitely the Switch can run 4K games) would be a serious problem for the Switch 2 because then you'd have a bunch of stubborn people saying "well, I already have 4K and 60 fps on my Switch Pro, why should I buy a Switch 2". 

After Wii U and 3DS, that's the last headache Nintendo needs, Switch is a massive success but by the same token now the real work begins because repeating it becomes harder (ask Iwata). 

I would do the exact same thing if I was in Furukawa's shoes.

But for people who want the extra performance, hey it's there for you really, it's not some giant mystery how to overclock a Switch these days. You can get 60 fps and even higher resolution in a bunch of games if you want it. 

 The switches hardware is made for a specific power draw. Boosting clock speeds, even more so for the gpu, will boost power draw and while the chip may be able to handle it we don’t know if the rest of the components in the switch can. Granted Nintendo DID enable the “boost mode” thing for switch and that boost clocks speeds on the cpu and lowers them on the gpu. That means it can clock higher and Nintendo knows it BUT the fact that they underclock the gpu says a lot

I personally think your theory has no merit . ps4 pro is much closer to ps5 then mariko will ever be to switch 2 and the jump will be massive. nintendo woried about the petty things you describe to limit players from experiencing their games in much better quality makes no sense as there audience is not mainly about graphics.

The Mariko (which is basically every Switch from August 2019 onwards) can easily overclock, the thing barely even gets warm, and you can see that fan speed doesn't even go above 50%. My brother's is modded, he gets about 3-4 hours of battery life even at max clocks. I'm just waiting for a Switch 2 so I don't care about doing it, honestly I don't really mind playing at 30 fps anyway, sure 60 is better but it's not something I lie awake in bed at night over. 

They were clearly planning a 4K/Pro Switch model though, there's no way they added 4K output to the dock and even changed the chipset itself (to allow it to output 4K60 max), so they were going to do it. 

In a few years they will probably just admit it, same way they initially said nothing about a Game Boy Atlantis model (32-bit successor) but then admitted to it years after the fact. 

Not trying to take sides here, but you're talking about the same company that charged you to "upgrade" Wii VC console games to Wii U VC, that charged you for the same games on the 3DS VC even if you have them on Wii or Wii U VC, that didn't give you any sort of discount or cross-save for games like Smash Bros. on Wii U and 3DS even though it can see your associated games and play history on your Nintendo account, and that didn't bother boosting the performance of old games on their successor consoles with backwards compatibility (DS>3DS, Wii>Wii U).

Prior to the Switch, even moving your account and associated games to a different unit was a laborious process that required calling Nintendo, giving a serial number or MAC address and damn near sacrificing the blood of a virgin lamb before it was willing to allow you that privilege. God forbid you have your original stolen or lost.

I love Nintendo too, but it ain't the most consumer-friendly company either.

Dude your theory is easily debunked most of Nintendo best selling games are already 1080p/60fps. allowing to be over clocked wouldn't even give you 60fps in most games with out a mod but they could have easily helped with 3rd party games which no one is gonna buy third-party  remastersr on switch 2. The biggest benefit would have went to zelda locked at 30fps and with a 1080p image quality, that's it. you make it these theories with out even properly thinking about it. 

Yep *at best* they will give you "free" 4K/60 fps patches to games, the "cost" being "hey you have to buy a Switch 2". So in that case it's a significant sales pitch to get Switch 1 owners to come over.  

But even that I doubt. I think you will at least have to pay per game for a 4K/60 patch. They stand to make a fortune selling those for $5-15 a pop. 

Worst case would be if they just straight up make you buy the games entirely again to get 4K/60, which they could entirely get away with. Lots of people will pay again for like 4K Zelda: BOTW/TOTK and Mario Kart 8 and Odyssey etc. etc. etc. Not much doubt about it.