Nintendo Switch 2 Dock USB-C Compatibility

Post by goosedragons » Mon, Sep 01, 2025, 3:07 PM UTC

alpaca128 wrote: post #103

pjerem wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aren’t we talking about video out from the dock ? Because it wasn’t possible for Switch 1. After some time, some alternative USB-C hubs supported the Switch video output but it was basically reverse engineering and I totally remember this first "compatible" hub back in the early days of the console which happened to brick consoles. Nintendo is like Apple they : - Don’t want you tu use the Switch in unpredictable ways…

Apple devices work near flawlessly with third-party periphery in my experience, what are you talking about? They have some questionable limitations at times (like iPads supporting Thunderbolt but not being able to safely eject USB drives), but I don't buy Apple cables & adapters and that's because they're not needed. I can charge a Macbook with a random USB-C charger on my desk, I can turn on my third-party BT headph…

Post by aejtaetj » Mon, Sep 01, 2025, 3:10 PM UTC

prism56 wrote: post #147

martini333 wrote: post #118

The LTT video was painful to watch. I don’t know much about USB or USB-PD, but it was clear they didn’t either. It felt like they were just rambling with some vaguely technical jargon, with no actual understanding.

It seemed more like the technical guy wrote the post and 'they' made it into a video format without really explaining it. I think they did a bad job. They struck a poor balance between not explaining it and trying to explain it. They should have gone full technical or not at all and stayed very high level regarding the issue of bespoke protocols.

Post by grishka » Mon, Sep 01, 2025, 3:33 PM UTC

arghwhat wrote: post #150

grishka wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why reject switch 1 accessories though? Sure the video resolution will have to be limited to 1080p, but that's kinda expected and I'm sure switch 2 can do that anyway

Switch currently runs in one of two modes: Docked and handheld. Games are written to expect those two modes, with rendering adjusted to those specifically and nothing else. Think of all the render settings in a PC game (in reality there are way more things the developer can adjust, but just for the sake of illustration), and assume there are instead two hardcoded presets which are selected based on whether or not the…

Post by extraduder_ire » Mon, Sep 01, 2025, 4:27 PM UTC

aejtaetj wrote: post #148

For consoles, it was actually the original Xbox that started this trend, using a proprietary physical connector, but with a mostly standard usb protocol, for no other purpose than to be consumer hostile. Physical hacks was of course rapidly found in this case to adapt it to be standard compliant. Then again, with xbox360/kinect, the camera was using the usb procotol, but microsoft prevented it from working with pcs i…

Post by ninjatendo » Mon, Sep 01, 2025, 5:44 PM UTC

divingdragon wrote: post #90

reactordev wrote: post #35

They did this to micro sd cards on the first switch. Looks like they found another way. Nintendo isn’t customer friendly. Gone are the days of the N64 and gone are the days of Nintendo pushing the boundaries of fun and entertainment. Now, they make underpowered handhelds for kids with proprietary dongles like Apple in hopes of trapping their customers to their platform. No thanks.

> They did this to micro sd cards on the first switch. What do you mean? From what I know it was bog-standard microSD(HC/XC) with the maximum supported speed being UHS-I with nothing proprietary.