 Hey everyone, welcome back to Nintendo Prime. If you enjoy speculation, opinions, news, all that stuff surrounding Nintendo and occasionally the rest of the video game industry, I would appreciate it if you would drop a like and subscribe to the channel. We do have a new giveaway for 80,000, something about, give it away like a master sword, like a replica master sword with a steel blade and some replica Hylian shields and Deku shields. Again, that's not even a giveaway happening right now. That's at 80K, but you know what? We're not here to talk about that because I discovered something today that silly me, I should have discovered last year. After all, I was one of the first people in the world to get my hands on with the Switch OLED. You guys might remember my unboxing video of me breaking the screen and a whole bunch of crazy stuff I did with the Switch OLED before it actually released to the public. One thing I did was actually examine these docks. In fact, this dock is still technically a part from when I did that because I haven't really used this dock much since because I have another one. I have a Splatoon one. Well, basically it's the same dock. I have a version one and a version two. So I got the dock that came with version one Switch and version two Switch. And the other one's got a Splatoon skin on it for my kids. Anyways, point is that these are the two current docks on the market. There is a black variant of this one, but I'm holding up the white one just to see you guys can easily see that these are two different docks. Now, the thing is I noted way back when that there was some differences between these docks. Now, we already know this dock can be updated and this dock can't, although Nintendo's never actually released an update for this dock. There is memory on here and an update dock option on Switch that only is available for this, this dock. So, okay, fine. That doesn't really mean a whole lot. What we also discovered is that the HDMI port and controller on here is different than the HDMI port and controller on this one. We discovered that this one is actually capable of HDMI 2.1, whereas this one's only capable of 2.0. Now, honestly, you can still run 4K and whatever through either one of those ports. The difference is going to be at how many frame rates you can run to that. But the point is that this did have a more modern HDMI port with the proper chip associated with it in order to support 4K, 60 FPS. Now, again, this doesn't really matter because it could just be those parts were cheaper than getting these old ones because these are basically become standard at this point buying these ports and those chips in bulk. It's probably cheaper than going back to an older standard. So it could just be a cost saving measure and easily pass off a ball. And obviously anything surrounding the ability to update the dock is merely theoretical because Nintendo's never actually updated the dock for any purpose. So what then, what new thing has been discovered about the Switch OLED dock? Let's bring us back to talking about it because the whole reason to examine the differences between the docks outside of morbid curiosities is because everyone wants to know if there's any hints towards another platform, a more powerful platform. And for the most part, we've been able to come up with a lot of nada or speculation at best like the new HDMI port, the update dock, that's still speculative because we don't really know why those things exist and then we don't know what the tangible benefits are and one of them could have just been due to cost saving measures. So we don't really have any direct proof publicly that there is a new, more powerful Switch. We have a bunch of rumors. We have a bunch of people claiming that dev units are out there. Bunch of people think it's gonna be based on the Drake and a whole bunch of different things but we don't have any definitive proof. I mean, the closest we have was in Nvidia leak earlier this year with MVN2. And even then MVN2 is used, not, you know, MVN, which is used with Nintendo Switch was also used with other devices. So there's no guarantee that MVN2 was the Switch Pro or Switch 2. So there's no guarantee. I still think it's highly likely, but again, speculative. There's no direct proof until now. So one thing I never thought to check on these docs was the bottom of the docs. And you can go ahead and check yours as well and verify this for yourself. I'll throw up a couple of close images for you guys. And these images come from family boards just so I could provide like a second source on this. You don't have to just believe me. And we found out there's a difference between these two docs. And I thought this difference was easily explainable, but not exactly. So this doc can output 18 Watts or 1.5 Amps, okay? So it can output 18 Watts of power. When you hear Watts, you probably think of that most commonly with like charging phones. Oh, you got 45 Watts of power, 50 Watts or 65, et cetera. But yeah, this one can output 18 Watts. It's actually faster to charge it directly off the cord than it is in the doc. The doc is actually doesn't charge it as quickly. So that's not that you're nor there. 18 Watts of output on this at 1.4 Amps. This doc has 2.4 Amps of output and can output 45 Watts. Now, again, I just mentioned quick charging. And honestly, that is exactly what I assumed when I noticed this. So I didn't think much of it. I actually noticed it a few months ago. Someone mentioned to me today though that 45 Watts thing doesn't quick charge. And I was confused. I'm like, what do mean it doesn't quick charge? This outputs 15 Amps and this outputs 45. That should mean that any switch you put in, whether it's OLED or the version one or version two should charge the same. So I got Eric's version one switch. I had my switch OLED. And then I had my fiance's version two switch. And I did charge testing. Now, again, this is not going to be a 100% verifiable test across all mediums. There's battery degradation, age of systems, but it shouldn't really matter when you're comparing the same system to the same system. I don't care how quickly the switch OLED charges in comparison to say how quickly the version one Eric switched charges because those two data points are irrelevant. What actually matters is how quickly does each individual device charge to itself between the two different docks. And what we found out is that no matter if it was Eric's version one switch, my fiance's version two, or my switch OLED, that it didn't matter which one of these docks we used, which one of the three docks really. I mean, it's 15 Watts on the version one and version two dock anyways. But it didn't matter which one of these docks we used, it took the same amount of time to charge them. Now I tried double checking with a voltage meter, which is a little difficult without taking this entirely apart. And I'm not exactly an electronics expert when it comes to electrical traces and all of that. But what I will say is at least from my capability to test how quickly switches charge from zero to 100, it took exactly the same time on both of these platforms. And I checked at various different time periods, you know, just hitting the power button and seeing what percent it was at. And they were at the exact same percents at the exact same time intervals or within like a 0.1% difference. So like a margin of error difference. So let me just say, this dock isn't charging any of the three switches faster than this dock is. What does that mean? Well, this dock isn't actually taking advantage of the 45 Watts output it has currently or 45 Watts of max output capable. It's not actually outputting that and or the current switch isn't able to take it in. Like it's possible that 45 Watts is coming out of this but the switch yourself can't accept that 45 Watts. Just like it's possible that the switch OLED, you know, can't accept it either, but you know, it's limiting it down to a smaller wattage input. So I kept thinking, regardless of if this is actually outputting 45 or 15 or if the switch can take in 45 or 15, why would this have the ability to output 45 Watts when the switch can't take advantage of that output? The only thing that comes to mind is that this dock wasn't originally built for the switch OLED. This dock was like the originally built for something that could actually use that power. Now, what is that something? I don't know. Again, we've heard speculation for a long time that, hey, maybe the Switch Pro was supposed to release last year but they couldn't get enough chips made. So they just went with the base switch hardware and threw it in what was supposed to be the Switch Pro. And then obviously they were already making these docks. So they just threw these docks out there. Yeah, they're 45 watt capable docks, but you know, what's the big deal? I think personally, because they use the same charge bricks, by the way. So there's no difference between the bricks. That clearly this dock was meant for something that us end consumers cannot currently enjoy. I don't know fundamentally if we are ever going to get a Switch Pro. I don't know, they could skip it, they could never have been making it. This could just be a happy accident. Maybe it's 45 watts output because it's cheaper. Although I think we can know this based on other devices that give you the cheap chargers that only output like 10 watts that clearly 45 watts output is more expensive. So this dock is more expensive than this one just based on that, let alone the ethernet jack. But guys, I am, I'm a bit perplexed at the moment. I obviously am a tech enthusiast and I love new technology. I'm excited for the upcoming 4,000 series of GPUs and whatever the 7,000 series looks like from AMD. I'm excited for that. I'm excited. I think it's really interesting what Intel is doing with the efficiency cores on the 1,200 series of CPUs. I'm curious how AMD is gonna respond with their next stuff. I like enterprise level as well when we're going into the Threadripper or we're going into the Xeon stuff. I really like all this stuff. I love technology. I love following the advancement of phones. I know all about the Xiaomi thing out there, the 12S Ultra Pro, whatever the hell they call it. There's so many different names on it. I want the one inch sensor on the camera. I think that's incredible. The cinematic mode on iPhone, I've been using it on some of my videos and it looks really, really good even though it clearly is one of those situations where that particular lens and that particular thing widens my body. It makes me look a little wider than I prefer but the rest of it, the cinematography of it looks great. So you just continue to deal with looking even fatter than I really am. But my thing is, when looking into the lens of technology and wondering what the hell is Nintendo doing next? It's hard to ignore that there are some fact-based signs out there of what Nintendo's doing next. You want more signs than just this random fact about the dock? Okay, fine. How about the fact that a recent patent just went public? That Nintendo is working on a new upscaling technology. Now this doesn't mean that it needs to be for a new platform. But we already know Nintendo is using currently available upscaling technology that is open source from AMD known as FSR. Why would they need to patent any sort of upscaling technology when they're already using available upscaling technology? And you might go, well, Nate, then what about DLSS? What if this is a modified version of DLSS? By the way, I went through the patent it doesn't really explain much. It is hardware-based, so there is that. That does make you lean towards DLSS, but they're working with NVIDIA and I'm sure whatever Nintendo does for their platform, they're gonna want a fully customized version of it that is specific to the hardware that's gonna be in that platform, right? That just makes the most sense. Using a broader DLSS that's meant for a wide range of hardware won't be as effective as obviously something specifically targeted for one piece of hardware. But that's how they ignore that. I think that's why they would do a patent like that. But Nintendo is clearly working on that. They have mentioned in the past they're always working on new hardware. This year, Nintendo at their end of fiscal year investors meeting back in April did say or didn't say anything. They were asked about whether a new switch would come out this year or an upgraded switch. And Furukawa's response was no comment. And this is the first time he's no commented that question in four years. So it makes you wonder, what's going on at Nintendo? I don't know. I have no sources. I'm just sharing information and speculating from it. But if I had to guess, and maybe we'll never know because they never release it, this dock was not intended for the switch oh that we have today, but rather one that had a different chip set inside that could have taken advantage of the 45 Watts, not only for charging, but for increased clock speeds to output to your TV, a chip that's a little bit more power hungry. Now that's what this dock seems to suggest. So you guys let me know what you think about this. Obviously it's a wild speculation. I know a lot of you guys out there are tired of talking about there being a new switch. And there's gonna be clickbait comments down there. There's gonna be people saying that I'm just milking the hell out of this. Look, this wasn't my plan video today. I actually had something else I was working on. But then I started digging into this and doing testing. And over a few days, I started realizing, you know what, this is actually worth talking about. So hopefully you guys enjoyed the video and I will catch you in the next one.