This was later fully resolved in a system update in September 2021 when it enabled support for Bluetooth Wireless headphone devices without the need for a USB adapter. Nintendo claimed in its case against Team Xecuter and Gary Bowser in February that this hardware change was specifically the result of Team Xecuter’s sales of modified Switch chips that used the exploit. Around July 2018, Nintendo quietly released Switch units with minor hardware changes and updated firmware to block exploits in the original Switch models that led to the ability to extract ROM images from game cards and software.

The GPU is clocked at 768 MHz when the device is docked; in handheld mode, it fluctuates between 307.2 MHz, 384 MHz, and 460 MHz. The depth from the tip of the analog sticks to the tip of the ZL/ZR buttons is 28 mm (1.1 in). When the CPU is in “boost mode”, the GPU clock speed drops to 76.8 MHz. Although the Switch is a hybrid game console, Nintendo refers to it as “a home video game system that can also be used as a handheld”. Switch units sold in China do have a regional lockout, limited to games published in China – pipihosa.com – and those on the Chinese eShop.

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A Switch hacker who goes by the name DevRin, was the first to discover the hack and posted his findings on YouTube, which prompted a modder who goes by the name KapuccinoHeck to investigate the matter with two others and their findings were later posted on KapuccinoHeck’s Twitter account. Nintendo Switch user profiles can be linked to a Nintendo Account, which enables access to online features and the ability to download and purchase software from Nintendo eShop.

It’s clocked at 1600 MHz in TV mode, while at a reduced 1331.2 MHz in Handheld mode. In the case of at least one game, Splatoon 2, ten Switch consoles can connect in the ad hoc network, though only eight can play directly while the other two can watch as spectators. Up to eight Switch consoles can be connected in a wireless ad hoc network for local multiplayer games, and multiple players can play on each of the connected Switch consoles. The Switch uses Bluetooth 4.1 for wireless communication between the console and its controllers. The Switch offers Wi-Fi 5 (dual-band 802.11ac wireless connectivity compliant with 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac modes).

Fils-Aimé said that because the Switch is geared as a gaming console that is far different from what their competitors offer, they had focused on achieving that goal first and foremost, and did not see media support as a differentiator from their competitors. On November 4, 2020, a trial version app of the Tencent Video streaming service was launched exclusively for Nintendo Switch consoles officially distributed by Tencent in mainland China. Fils-Aimé said in June 2018 that conversations to bring Netflix to the Switch were “on-going”. Niconico, a popular Japanese video service, launched for the Switch in Japan on July 13, 2017, and was the Switch’s first third-party media app in any market.