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Rumors will be rumors and we should take them with a grain of salt, but I thought this would be interesting for discussion.
What gameplay applications do you think these possible scroll wheels would be useful for?
If the console is a traditional console, would the switch then become what the Wii U gamepad was always meant to be? The console could be backwards compatible with the switch able to take the games on the go or stream them locally, or act as a second screen.
In all likelyhood this is just a dev kit, but you would still think it would be a handheld, right?
What do you think?
Not to be too dismissive, but I agree that it should be taken with a grain of salt. I also would expect that somebody who's supposedly a part of Nintendo R&D specifically will be more likely to be walking around with many attempts at proof-of-concept hardware ideas that aren't (yet) intended to ship in a final product, and only an incredibly tiny portion of such ideas will ever make it far enough to even be in consideration for a new device.
The weird thing is that it seems late for Nintendo to still be working on R&D for the Switch 2. This is probably less than a year from announcement. At this point, I would expect them to be hammering out agreements with suppliers, so the hardware should be more-or-less done.
Then again, I have no idea what the timeline is like for console development.
It's not weird at all. They'll be tweaking things they don't have signed contracts for right up until reveal, and they won't reveal until the tweaking is done.
What's being sent out to developers are formless computer boxes that either house the performance hardware that will be used, or have very similar specs to what's expected to be in the final product, plus the operating system, SDK, and accompanying libraries.
At my last place of work, we had some Wii devkits in storage. They looked like old stereo equipment, and told you literally nothing about what the system would look like out of the box.
The thing with R&D for a company like Nintendo is that they're never finished. If they've really finalized the Switch 2 as you've said then R&D will have immediately started working on the next console, or at worst post-launch accessories.