It could be a while before you’ll be able to walk into a store to pick up a second Nintendo Switch Dock, with production of the accessory not going as quickly as Nintendo had hoped.
Docks were not made available to buy in Europe, but they did go on sale for $90 in the US. These quickly sold out, with demand being “higher than anticipated”.
Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime has told Time that some stock will appear shortly in the US, though his comments suggest it may be a while before we see Docks available elsewhere in the world.
“At Nintendo of America, we were the initial market that was pushing for the idea of a second dock. The production quantity is just not ramping up as quickly as we hoped it would. So it’s a pure availability situation,” explained Fils-Aime. “More will be available shortly. But certainly we understand the desire, and it’s something we pushed hard for from a production standpoint.”
Once production increases it could be that we’ll see Docks available to buy in Europe, but by that time third-party solutions may already be available which enable HDMI output over the USB-C connection.
“No doubt that there’s going to be a lot of unlicensed third party solutions that will start appearing that could do potentially what you’re describing,” said Fils-Aime.
“As a company, as a philosophy, we would rather have consumers use our first-party solutions. In part because, what happens if the system falls off of where it’s being secured, and all of a sudden we have a consumer with a potentially damaged unit. So we want consumers to use our solution, and that’s a docking solution with the cable connected to the TV.”
Source: Time
