That would be a really nice and easy way for Nintendo to piss off their consumers. Release a new iteration of hardware only 2 years after its release? Piss off, but this is Nintendo so they will probably do it, just seems like an idiotic thing to do when sales are still so high.

@Sono421 - but it's ok that Sony and MS did it 3 years after? If it releases next March that is 3 years after the Switch. Why are we ok with the Pro and the One X, but not a Switch mid-gen refresh?

It won't be enough. At best it would be the Tegra X2, which is practically the same hardware as the X1 (besides the CPU), with higher clock speeds.

They would be foolish to change the CPU, because compatibility issues will arise, but they should be able to simply go with upgraded ARM cores and be fine, although CPU throttling isn't really the issue. This will allow better battery life, better performance, lower thermal hits, and thus higher clock speeds.

The GPU is identical, but with the gains on the CPU side it too could clock higher and closer to its original clocks. Best case scenario IMO, you're looking at handheld mode running at 30% - 40% higher clock speeds safely providing significantly more stable fps in portable mode for all games. Honestly it could theoretically run at 2x the speed, but battery life and thermals would kill it.

Docked mode performance can increase dramatically as well, but it depends completely on a remodeled dock because Nintendo won't want to push the internal fan that hard. Adding a decent fan to the dock will allow better cooling and higher clocks. This way when the switch realizes it's in docked mode it will run at 30% - 40% higher clocks than the original docked Switch, putting it just over 1/3 the power of the XBOs and just over 1/4 the power of the PS4.

So better, but still not enough for parity release, since devs have to drop to lowest settings, and often from there build Switch specific assets (which technically means they could be making these games for PS360 still if their architecture was simpler to develop for, or high-end mobile devices.)

But I can't take the PS4/XB1 with me.

There are trait offs in components you guys seem to ignore.

I'm not ignoring the trade off I'm talking exactly about the trade offs. It's more expensive and weaker, but it's portable. Beyond that it's a matter of is the trade off worth the price, that's up to the individual buyer.

would be a fun alternate mode on the Switch to have green blood...just for nostalgia and funsies.

@blawren4 - but the original version of Mortal Kombat on the SNES used "grey" blood and called it sweat instead. Once Mortal Kombat 2 came along, it had all the gore and thus became the definitive console version as the graphics were far superior to the Genesis counterpart.