Please correct me if I am wrong.
I was curious if it's possible for Nintendo Switch to support Bluetooth audio and have it so the controllers with headphone jacks can output audio. Especially when CFW may allow this once we have a full understanding of the hardware.
So, I searched for news and details about Switch hardware specs, and have found this article from 2016:
http://www.player.one/nintendo-swit...-bluetooth-functionality-confirmed-fcc-574794
Accordin to this article, the Switch supports Bluetooth Low Energy. I never heard of the term, "low-energy Bluetooth", and assumed it's probably a new Bluetooth standard. I was curious about where we are with Bluetooth technology, so I looked it up.
According to Wikipedia,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_Low_Energy
Bluetooth Low Energy, or BLE, is targeted to health and fitness, small devices, and home entertainment industries. The Switch is part of the home entertainment industries, so that's great. BLE is not backwards compatible with Bluetooth Classic, which is what we referred collectively as Bluetooth that we know right now.
But then for audio, there is this information:
http://www.businessinsider.com/bluetooth-audio-future-update-low-energy-2016-10
Here, the article stated the next planned Bluetooth Low Energy standard (BLE 5.0) begins in 2017, the year the Switch debuted. This new standard will come with features including streaming audio.
So it leads to me that the current BLE standard is 4.0, and with the development of the Switch, they use BLE 4.0 (or BLE 4.X, if there were later revisions I am not aware of), and therefore don't have the hardware capability to support Bluetooth audio streaming to your future controllers with headphone jacks.
Sad to say, but I think the Switch will never have support for those types of controllers, as they do not have the ability to stream audio via Bluetooth directly, and must use a driver that enables Bluetooth Classic to send audio over. I think this is what the Sony Playstation Bluetooth headset with USB dongle uses, for the Switch to transmit audio over.
But fear not, if a hardware revision is planned for 2019, with new RAM, CPU, etc., then we may also well have a new module that supports BLE 5.0 for Bluetooth audio streaming. Which is what I hoped.
I was curious if it's possible for Nintendo Switch to support Bluetooth audio and have it so the controllers with headphone jacks can output audio. Especially when CFW may allow this once we have a full understanding of the hardware.
So, I searched for news and details about Switch hardware specs, and have found this article from 2016:
http://www.player.one/nintendo-swit...-bluetooth-functionality-confirmed-fcc-574794
Accordin to this article, the Switch supports Bluetooth Low Energy. I never heard of the term, "low-energy Bluetooth", and assumed it's probably a new Bluetooth standard. I was curious about where we are with Bluetooth technology, so I looked it up.
According to Wikipedia,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_Low_Energy
Bluetooth Low Energy, or BLE, is targeted to health and fitness, small devices, and home entertainment industries. The Switch is part of the home entertainment industries, so that's great. BLE is not backwards compatible with Bluetooth Classic, which is what we referred collectively as Bluetooth that we know right now.
But then for audio, there is this information:
http://www.businessinsider.com/bluetooth-audio-future-update-low-energy-2016-10
Here, the article stated the next planned Bluetooth Low Energy standard (BLE 5.0) begins in 2017, the year the Switch debuted. This new standard will come with features including streaming audio.
So it leads to me that the current BLE standard is 4.0, and with the development of the Switch, they use BLE 4.0 (or BLE 4.X, if there were later revisions I am not aware of), and therefore don't have the hardware capability to support Bluetooth audio streaming to your future controllers with headphone jacks.
Sad to say, but I think the Switch will never have support for those types of controllers, as they do not have the ability to stream audio via Bluetooth directly, and must use a driver that enables Bluetooth Classic to send audio over. I think this is what the Sony Playstation Bluetooth headset with USB dongle uses, for the Switch to transmit audio over.
But fear not, if a hardware revision is planned for 2019, with new RAM, CPU, etc., then we may also well have a new module that supports BLE 5.0 for Bluetooth audio streaming. Which is what I hoped.
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