Nintendo Switch OLED dock is 4K-ready, even if the console isn't

(Pocket-lint) - Further impervious has emerged that the caller TV dock that comes with the Nintendo Switch (OLED model) is susceptible of outputting 4K Ultra HD video. The HDMI cablegram supplied with the console is too.

After the caller Switch variation was launched past week, it was claimed that the included cablegram complies with HDMI modular 2.0. This is required for 4K60 video output.

Now a contented creator has discovered that the spot wrong the caller dock is simply a Realtek RTD2172N. This is simply a 4K UHD multimedia SoC, truthful tin provender 4K visuals done the HDMI port.

A dataminer recovered a akin chipset listed successful firmware eariler this year. It was thought to notation to a Pro model astatine the time.

The dock was codenamed "Cradle Aula" backmost then.

Posting his latest findings connected Twitter, @KawlunDram besides tested the supplied cablegram connected his Xbox to corroborate it could transportation a 4K60 signal.

The adjacent happening I did was hook up my Xbox One X to my TV with the caller HDMI cablegram that came successful the dock and yep, everything works good pic.twitter.com/uTBRWxFeF9

— kawlums (@KawlunDram) October 11, 2021

Of course, this is each large and proves the dock is futureproof, but Nintendo itself precocious claimed that it has nary plans for a further Switch model, fto unsocial a 4K Pro.

It debunked a Bloomberg communicative claiming that developers person been supplied with 4K investigating kits, stating that it was "categorically untrue".

"We person nary plans for immoderate caller exemplary different than Nintendo Switch - OLED Model," Nintendo added.

Writing by Rik Henderson. Originally published connected 12 October 2021.