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I don't believe so.
Missing a lot of details, like the gpu, HDD speed, memory cards etc.
So off the top of my head, the joycons are magnetic, larger, use hall effect sticks and has a secret thumb stick feature. A patent shows control sticks which can change viscosity when you change the electrical current. So imagine a stick that becomes stiffer as your car takes damage to suspension.
Or a stick that turns to mush when your characters feet enter a swamp. I don't know how effective the tech is, just hypothetical.
The 256gb HDD is almost as fast as the solid state drives in the PS5 and Xbox.
It's rumoured that there is a grey and white choice of launch models and a special edition based on the 9th version of a game franchise.
It uses SD Express memory cards which can rival normal PC HDD speeds, not solid state.
The memory bandwidth is great, 100gb/s, it has slightly more usable ram than the series S.
It's rumoured to have a t239 gpu chip from Nvidia, it's a couple of years old now, so there may have been a die shrink to 4nm. Otherwise it's 8nm.
I suspect it's still 8nm and because it's a large chip they made the screen larger, 8 inches at 1080p.
It uses DLSS and has its own tensor cores and is capable of hardware ray tracing.
Also has a File Compression engine for super fast loading.
The game carts are speculated as being 3d nand carts which can hold I think up to 50gb, but I may be mistaken.
It has a U shaped kickstand and the dock is shorter so some of the screen is exposed, presumably to allow it to display info when docked. Alarm clock? Weather?
The dock is fatter, some speculate that it's because there are more fans built into it.
Rumor is it will run at a lower power state when portable, with a longer battery life compared to switch.
There's a video covering the dev on the forum talking about switch 2. Quite interesting.