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Interested parties should look into Japanese eShop accounts.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/44154/first-switch-game-to-play-only-out-of-dock-revealed-as-voez
The Switch launch in Japan will feature the first Switch game that cannot play on a TV.
VOEZ, a port of a mobile rhythm title, will be available in the Japanese eShop on March 3; other shop releases have not been announced. A touch-based rhythm game with over 1200 songs, the game will only play in portable or tabletop modes.
A trailer below confirms the Japanese release date:
So this means there will be games that only play on the TV, maybe hoping to take advantage of the different clock speeds on the GPU when docked.
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Quote from: Soren on February 27, 2017, 09:57:18 AMSo this means there will be games that only play on the TV, maybe hoping to take advantage of the different clock speeds on the GPU when docked. I wouldn't make that assumption, and I really hope not.
Quote from: NWR_insanolord on February 27, 2017, 10:06:38 AMQuote from: Soren on February 27, 2017, 09:57:18 AMSo this means there will be games that only play on the TV, maybe hoping to take advantage of the different clock speeds on the GPU when docked. I wouldn't make that assumption, and I really hope not.Why not? If Nintendo is allowing developers the freedom to make a game that can't play while docked, they can't really restrict devs who want to do something the other way around.
Secondly, there's a lot less reason to want to make something that only works docked than only works in handheld mode.
one of the big hooks of the system is that it's a console you can take anywhere, and if you start to make exceptions to that you lose that hook.
Quote from: NWR_insanolord on February 27, 2017, 10:51:33 AMSecondly, there's a lot less reason to want to make something that only works docked than only works in handheld mode. I just gave a reason in my first reply. Other reasons could be online only games and ports of games that can only run stable on docked mode.
Is there any indication that there's a substantial difference in possible power with the dock beyond what's necessary to output at a higher resolution? Online-only's not a problem, as you yourself have lamented the system doesn't include a wired networking option, it's wi-fi only.