Technarchy on 22 December 2017
I'm not quite sure if the Switch was a target on a greater road map planned by Nintendo years ago, but Yoshiaki Koizumi did say he pulled in all the engineering teams and had a goal of putting the main aspects of a home console into a mobile platform. You have to figure all the guys on Gamecube, Wii, Wii-U, Gameboy and 2DS/3DS were part of that dialog.
And you can see Nintendo design DNA dating way back to Nintendo Entertainment system in the Switch.
As a company the most conventional product they have ever done was the SNES as a successor to the NES, and even then Nintendo was the only company at the time that was crazy enough to put 8 buttons on a controller.
