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The built-in Ethernet port is seemingly the biggest deal here. The kickstand also looks improved. Any hints about an SoC update?

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No SoC update, it's the same one as in the current Switch. The 4K and DLSS rumours didn't come true, unfortunately.

With that, if you already have a Switch, don't bother upgrading.

I hope the new dock is compatible with the old model and they sell the dock separately.

You can already buy just the dock for about $70 USD. I can’t imagine they’d not do the same here.

can you not just use a usb to ethernet adapter with the old dock?

Yes, I was able to use one without issue.

> The 4K and DLSS rumours didn't come true, unfortunately

How do we know that? What is to say they won't announce that next week? Was there something specific about the 6th July being the date we would find out whether the rumours were true?

Why would they muddy their messaging by announcing half the features, and then later announcing another set of features? Think about how much marketing confusion that would lead to; most people wouldn't have any idea what the thing actually does.

They could be ashamed of the hardware difference: except for pro-sumers, having segmented hardware is a net loss for consumers owning the current hardware: they'd just have an inferior product.

The Switch already can support some third party ethernet ports while docked via USB so the Ethernet port doesn't strike me as a big deal.

It is a big deal because the switch does not go to sleep when a USB-Ethernet adapter is plugged in. This hardware does not have a powered-on MTTF that would make many customers happy.

Not sleeping with a plugged in Ethernet adapter seems to be a problem with certain third-party adapters. I'm using an old Wii ethernet adapter which works fine.

I thought so too. I've gone down the rabbit hole in the past. I've tried three different chips and the result is always the same. Sometimes it's spottier behavior but it always ends up staying on in the steady state.

I've never had that problem with the official wii adapter as far as I've noticed.

The models I tested included the Wii/Wii U official adapter and the official Switch adapter.

That's very strange, I checked with my brother and he's never had that problem either with the official wii adapter.

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