{"id":822,"date":"2025-07-04T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grupusanfelix.com\/?p=822"},"modified":"2025-07-07T14:50:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T14:50:19","slug":"switch-2-usb-c-chip-might-be-breaking-compatibility-with-third-party-docks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grupusanfelix.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/04\/switch-2-usb-c-chip-might-be-breaking-compatibility-with-third-party-docks\/","title":{"rendered":"Switch 2 USB-C Chip Might Be Breaking Compatibility With Third-Party Docks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>No one could USB-C this&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With the launch of the Switch 2, accessory manufacturers have been rushing to bring their products to the market in a bid to offer alternatives to Nintendo&#8217;s own set, including docks. The latter has been causing headaches for many, and it seems Nintendo has put in place restrictions on the console&#8217;s USB-C ports.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/report\/695915\/switch-2-usb-c-third-party-docks-dont-work-authentication-encryption\">The Verge&#8217;s Sean Hollister<\/a> has been looking into the Switch 2&#8217;s USB-C port and was told this was the case after speaking to two accessory manufacturers. What should happen is that, when the console is popped into a dock via the USB-C adapter, it kicks off a series of commands that allow the power supply\/dock to output video. That&#8217;s an <em>extremely<\/em> oversimplified explanation. That&#8217;s not happening when you connect the Switch 2 to most third-party docks, however.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/07\/switch-2-usb-c-chip-might-be-breaking-compatibility-with-third-party-docks\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one could USB-C this&#8230; With the launch of the Switch 2, accessory manufacturers have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grupusanfelix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grupusanfelix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grupusanfelix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grupusanfelix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grupusanfelix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/grupusanfelix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823,"href":"http:\/\/grupusanfelix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions\/823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grupusanfelix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grupusanfelix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grupusanfelix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grupusanfelix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}