Laura Dale leaks on Switch.
If battery is going to suck that badly, it better take something standard like micro-USB. They wouldn't actually make the dock the only way to charge it, would they?
microUSB may not be the best option, just with the limited power you can transfer over the USB 2.0 standard. USB-C would be better, or at least micro USB 3.0.
My biggest concern with the Switch is the use of game cards over CDs. I understand for a device that is portable, game cards are the smarter option, but will they work. Will third party companies be able to develop their games for the Switch as they would for say the PlayStation 4 without the use of CDs?
Maybe I'm missing something here, but what's the real difference? Both disks and cartridges are ways to store data. The same games can be put on either. Why would it matter?
From what I understand, CDs hold more data than cartridges. Which, is why I am unsure how Nintendo can make them viable in today's market.
Alright folks lets learn about data storage:
1. Nothing uses CDs any more because it is tiny (700MB)
2. Everything these days uses Bluray or something roughly equivalent (roughly 25-100GB or something)
3. Discs are slow, cheap and require a disc drive that takes up a lot of physical space and sucks up a lot of power to work
4. Solid state storage (such as that in cartridges, SD cards etc) is fast (not universally true), more expensive, and requires very little power draw and almost no physical footprint
Speed is the key factor here, and the reason that Nintendo stuck with cartridges for the N64. You can read data from a cartridge significantly faster than any disc, storage being the second biggest factor. It's pretty easy to get some form of solid state storage equalling that of a disc, it just costs more than a disc does, so it's hard to say what the upper storage limit will be for the game cards the Switch uses. You may just end up seeing a lot of downloadable games rather than physical.
The biggest issue for porting from one console (Xbone or PS4) to the Switch is not what media games come on, but the difference between the Switch and the original console. The Switch is not only significantly less powerful, but uses a totally different architecture than either of the other console. Some games may be too difficult, or even impossible, to get working on the Switch.