I just did some digging....
"Switch SCD to potentially have 8GB ram, 3.5 teraflop 1060 class gpu"
This is a rumor from a then trusted source??? There were rumors of a Switch Dock with its own GPU from as far back as 2017. It was based on a Foxconn leak. So cant we see that show up eventually or was that rumor wrong?
Maybe I'm mixing things up with this...
Isnt this "performance module" even though they claim it to be fake, still possible?
These are really just pertained to the patent, where someone conflated an idea and someone else entertained it to where it grew to being a rumor, when it came about after the game of telephone the rumor was formalized into this idea of a dock that helps with the switch, but said technology does not really exist yet. Or probably will exist for a very long time until they can manage to make it work. It is of course still only a patent, and the concept is of course interesting, but in the current switch, or even in the next switch, possibly not until switch 12 or 13 would it be a viable option.
I see what you are saying, but wouldn't this be only for people who want to play 4k Switch games on a fancy OLED tv therefore they will play only docked. Also, with the Lite Nintendo destroyed the Switching process.
not necessarily, while the thing can output to 4k, there are still other benefits when it isn’t outputting a 4k video signal. Namely faster loading times, better hold to framerate target, more ambitious titles can be ported with "lossless" outcome, etc.
The device would be doing 4k, but 4k is not the only thing the device brings to the table.
AoC would have presumably a flawless 60FPS.
ACNH would have presumably very low load times, almost "instant"
Ports would not require such herculean efforts for some titles, titles that weren’t going to the base switch already but are possible on the Dane model.
I would not focus on just the docked aspect of this, but include the handheld aspect of this, it seemingly becomes more phone-like in nature except it would actually make use of the power.
Phones follow this super high need to go for faster when... phone games don’t generally fit the specifications. Looking at you candy crush despite being on a device with 1.7TFLOPS that outclasses the PS4 GPU and a cpu that outclasses the PS4 Pro and XBox One X.
give or take.
Anyway, switch would actually get some benefit of it in how games just load on phones.
I went off-track, sorry.
Also haven't they done this exact same thing in the past- released an upgraded model at a higher price about a year before a successor launches?
DSi XL launched in late 2009, 3DS launched in early 2011.
Not
really or I wouldn’t really argue the DSi but a different example would probably fit it better.
Going by what happened with the GBA to DS leap, I think Nintendo allows backwards compat, without any spec upgrade to the OG Switch version of the game. If what SciresM is saying is factual, then this is what I'm coming to expect.
Thing is that it’s impossible to not have a perf increase, while GPU could possibly not be used to the fullest, the CPU and memory bandwidth would still be major improvements over the switch. We saw that with the PS4 games on the PS5.
So are you saying that there is nothing Nintendo can do to prevent the game from crashing if someone removed the Switch from this hypothetical dock?
There really isn’t, the data transfer to and from already causes some latency, and cutting the RAM off while the game is running would cause a crash as it has insufficient memory to load.
At least right now or in the next few years, or several years, or decade.