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Nintendo Switch 2 Dock USB-C Compatibility

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298 points croes | 4 comments | 31 Aug 25 23:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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yuiegi ◴[01 Sep 25 05:23 UTC] No.45089705[source]▶
Back in COVID times, when I had all the time in the world, my Switch got bricked after I charged it using my laptop charger. Nintendo refused to honor its warranty, citing some mumbo jumbo about proprietary USB-C hardware. Fortunately, we have pretty good consumer protection laws here in Australia By the end of an entire two month saga, they sent me a brand new Switch.

I always did think it was odd that a USB-C cable that wasnt Nintendo could break my Switch.

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1. hatsunearu ◴[01 Sep 25 08:23 UTC] No.45090709[source]▶
USB-C was really really really rough in the early years. The switch 1 was one of the first products to come out with USB-C IIRC.
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2. indrora ◴[01 Sep 25 08:41 UTC] No.45090792[source]▶
Not even.

Early devices were things like the OnePlus 2 [0] and there were plenty of phones out before the Switch even hit the market in 2017 [1]. There were some issues with standards compliance, sure, but the market had vastly improved by the time the Switch had come out.

[0] https://www.gsmarena.com/oneplus_2-6902.php [1] https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nYearMax=2017&nUSBType...

3. rsynnott ◴[01 Sep 25 09:11 UTC] No.45090959[source]▶
Nah; Apple's notoriously not-very-good 12" MacBook and the Chromebook Pixel had it since 2015, and Apple's more mainstream laptops since 2016. Nintendo doesn't really have any excuse for the original Switch's problematic USB-C beyond laziness: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16706803
4. rs186 ◴[01 Sep 25 11:44 UTC] No.45091913[source]▶
"rough" doesn't explain any of what's happening here.

Nintendo messed up, that's it.