@JaxonH There already are some third party docks for the Switch 2, but they only work because people reverse engineered Nintendo's new handshake protocols and updated their firmware to accept them.
Since the vast majority of USB-C docks out there won't ever see such a firmware update, we will be stuck with a narrow selection that'll carry a premium price and a limited feature set for the foreseeable future.
It's rather frustrating when the vast majority of manufacturers of laptops, phones and even handheld gaming consoles can make devices that are interoperable with pretty much any dock. Nintendo presumably could too, if they wanted to. They just don't.
Right on cue, Linux Tech Tips made a video about this:
I don't think it tells us anything that we don't already know but they do a pretty good job of laying out the technical evidence for what is happening.
They're fairly even handed, even praising Nintendo for doing good things when it comes to adopting SD Express for storage expansion, but criticism is very much due for the failure to work with the existing protocols that third-party docks support.
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