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

There's ever a crushed wherefore cosmopolitan USB-C ports don't "just work" similar you'd expect. In the aboriginal days, it was incompetence oregon naiveté. Later, manufacturers often cheaped out. But successful the lawsuit of Nintendo's Switch 2, it appears to beryllium intentional.

With the Nintendo Switch 2, it should beryllium casual to plug your new, much costly console into video glasses oregon TVs erstwhile you're traveling distant from home. USB-C makes it so. But Nintendo has intentionally breached the Switch 2's compatibility with those devices, utilizing a caller encryption strategy and immoderate signifier of dedicated encryption chip, 2 accessory manufacturers archer The Verge.

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