Steam Deck, Ally and other such handhelds have a wide variety of third party docks available that don’t have a reputation of harming the hardware. I assume if Nintendo followed the open USB C spec it would make it much easier to create third party accessories that don’t destroy the system since the protocol for negotiating is straightfoward. By slapping down a proprietary layer on it that can be modified at whim with firmware updates they have just made it more likely that third party accessories will malfunction. I can guarantee you they did this so folks would have to buy first party accessories rather than quality control.
Something else I considered while reading about this is that the stories of third party docks frying your Switch 1 might be Nintendo propaganda. Wouldn’t surprise me but that’s pure baseless speculation on my part. Either way I agree that what Nintendo should do is just conform to the USB spec, I’m just trying to read into their motivations a little bit.
Steam Deck, Ally and other such handhelds have a wide variety of third party docks available that don’t have a reputation of harming the hardware. I assume if Nintendo followed the open USB C spec it would make it much easier to create third party accessories that don’t destroy the system since the protocol for negotiating is straightfoward. By slapping down a proprietary layer on it that can be modified at whim with firmware updates they have just made it more likely that third party accessories will malfunction. I can guarantee you they did this so folks would have to buy first party accessories rather than quality control.
Something else I considered while reading about this is that the stories of third party docks frying your Switch 1 might be Nintendo propaganda. Wouldn’t surprise me but that’s pure baseless speculation on my part. Either way I agree that what Nintendo should do is just conform to the USB spec, I’m just trying to read into their motivations a little bit.