Will there be a Nintendo Switch Pro? Is it possible to make it more powerful by only altering the dock?

Will there be a Nintendo Switch Pro? Is it possible to make it more powerful by only altering the dock?

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I don't know what you're asking but it sounds retarded

That's because it is retarded. The dock is effectively a dongle for HDMI output and has no processing power related to gaming on its own.

That being said, any serious hardware revision of the Switch will likely include the Tegra X2. However, since Nintendo just released a revision with a die shrink, I doubt it's in the immediate future.

>The dock is effectively a dongle for HDMI output and has no processing power related to gaming on its own
it doesn't now, but that doesn't mean it isn't " possible to make it more powerful by only altering the dock" like OP was asking

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no

Why?

>that doesn't mean it isn't " possible to make it more powerful by only altering the dock"
The dock doesn't do anything, though. There's nothing that you could add to it that would increase performance; the only feasible means to do so is a more efficient processor.

as I said it doesn't do anything NOW
you could technically make a new dock that uses an external gpu like they do for laptops.
is it commercially feasible? that, I don't know

All they have to do is increase the battery and make the screen 1080p. So all undocked games will look and run just as good as when docked.

I don't think you understand thermal throttling

Laptops are required to use thunderbolt for that, which is very rare outside of x86. I don't think it's possible to implement that into the switch. They don't even have full USB compliance.

fair enough, I knew it had type c and just assumed

Hopefully the next hardware revision can be a dedicated console, with portability being limited to gen 1 and the Lite

It wouldn't be competitive as a console, though. You would be left with a mobile processor that isn't mobile.

the jaguar is a mobile processor
the only difference is better cooling

The jaguar and tegra are nothing alike architecturally, so they scale very differently too.

still you would be lying if you said that a tegra in a big box wouldn't be competitve, at least until ps5 and xbox whatever come out

That's the problem. A tegra running at maximum would only barely be in the same league as hardware that came out 6 years ago.
If you want to make a tabletop console, it makes way more sense to build it on 7nm APUs than it does to stick with ARM. Nintendo can't make that until the Switch is done with, or at least until they convert the Switch line into what the DS line was

hey you're absolutely right and you know your stuff
I was just hang up on the "a mobile processor wouldn't be competitive" while ps5 might very well use a modern laptop processor and be 100 times more powerful than its predecessor

Some user here leak entire Switch mini detail before the announcement. He also mentions that the actual hardware of Pro model is around the level of the base Xbox One and will get their own exclusive ports like RE2remake

Though, he's wrong about release date but everything else seem pretty much accurate so who knows, maybe it's all just lucky guess

>will there be a Nintendo Switch Pro
Yes, but it will be a marginal improvement
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>will there be a Nintendo Switch Pro
Yes, but it will be a marginal improvement
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>will there be a Nintendo Switch Pro
Yes, but it will be a marginal improvement
>is it possible to make it more powerful by only altering the dock
Not for any current models

I just want to play Switch games in 4k, I don't give a shit about the portable modes. Surely I can't be the only person wanting this?

It’s inevitable, as soon as sales momentum starts to fall, they’ll announce it, with a first party game using it the most

Everyone wants higher resolutions / frame rates. It just makes games better.

it depends on the game, I play a lot of multiplays on my vita even when I could play in 4k 120fps on my pc

Eh, that's a different form factor though. What if the vita ran it at those specs? Or the PC ran at the vita specs?

Ideally we would all play games at 16,000x9,000 pixels and at 960Hz, but that isn't a reality. There isn't the hardware to drive that (especially not with the switch, you would need an entirely different and way more expensive processor), or the consumer demand.
It doesn't make all that much business sense to call it a switch and not have it switch. Sure there's the lite, but that's $100 cheaper, not $300 more expensive.