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Nintendo locked down the Switch 2's USB-C port and broke third-party docking

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40 points snvzz | 2 comments | 04 Jul 25 03:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.402s | source
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leakycap ◴[04 Jul 25 04:36 UTC] No.44461154[source]▶
Who is Nintendo's biggest buyer? I don't know if it is parents buying Switch 2 for kids to use, or adults for themselves. Weird choices from Nintendo on the Switch 2 given the needs of the two markets.
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snvzz ◴[04 Jul 25 09:01 UTC] No.44462638[source]▶
Most likely the latter, based solely on price.
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1. bombcar ◴[04 Jul 25 12:50 UTC] No.44464074[source]▶
For now, perhaps. But within time the vast majority of users of the Switch 2 will be children (for some value of “are teenagers children”) - our first switch was bought for me, but the other ones are definitely kids toys (and they’ve overtaken ours, too).

But even a five year old can understand “use this charger/connect and it charges fast, that other one is very slow, and this one doesn’t work.”

It’s way more annoying to the parents.

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2. RestartKernel ◴[04 Jul 25 16:06 UTC] No.44465697[source]▶
> But even a five year old can understand “use this charger/connect and it charges fast, that other one is very slow, and this one doesn’t work.”

It's funny to consider the layers upon layers of abstraction modern children are taught as common sense. Putting water in a container is one thing, but charging a battery must be downright metaphysical at that age.