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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.
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.