The success of the Nintendo Switch is yet to be seen. Its main attraction is that we will have both a portable and a desktop console at the same time, in this way, we can enjoy their video games away from home, something that tends to attract younger audiences and that has triumphed in formats such as the Nintendo DS in all its variants. However, the trick must reside in some function, and it seems that the magic has been revealed, the dock is nothing more than a station, but the speed of the Nvidia GPU will drop when we separate it from the dock.
It was logical to think that it could not give the laptop performance at the same rate as on the desktop. What is clearer, if possible, is that You will not be able to graphically compete with Xbox One or PlayStation 4, no matter how much we wanted, it could not offer different performance to an Nvidia Shield, although it will have the advantage of having its own operating system and the specific development of video games, which always increases the performance of the GPU, however, the processor of Nvidia based on the Tegra X1 architecture could not offer speeds of more than 1600 MHz.
In short, when it comes to playing when it is in the Dock, it seems that it will behave well, the problem will come when using it as a laptop, when graphics performance will drop by up to 40% based on Digital Foundry, with the intention of drastically reducing battery consumption and that it can provide an interesting off-dock experience of use. The problem resides in the battery again, we would like to see how the lithium battery ages and if it is going to offer some interesting hours of play, because everything that falls below four hours is going to be frustrating when traveling.