Yea they have stated that but it would be odd to release two portable products from them. It will confuse the consumers if they did that and potentially compete with themselves... But we don't know if thats even going to be a thing so we should just speculate on what we do know. Nintendo can call it a home console "first and foremost" but if it acts like a handheld that can connect to the TV, then that is what most people will see it as.

They did show quite a bit of portability on its trailer so I doubt the battery will be short. Even if it isn't very long, it still has to be a consideration if they are going to advertise it as portable device in any sense. They showed it being played on airplanes and car trips so...

And yea, I wouldn't doubt that there might be a power saving technique like that.

If it has Mario Galaxy 3, it wont matter any to me lmao.

It has mario and zelda, thats basically enough for me.

Some Vita ports your like... how did they do this on the vita?

One thing is clear: there will be extra juice when you dock the thing. It just looks super cool.

Just drop the resolution to 720p and you're done.

It's only odd if you look at vague similarities, NX I've suspected was always going to be a family of devices under one ecosystem but different execution in what they do. Most people will see NS as a console that can act like a portable, 3DS' successor is likely a portable only device that may even touch on some mobile aspects but not connect to a TV, they may overlap in some aspects but won't be the same.

Portable just means you can take it with you, if it has poor battery life but comes with a convenient charging cable it's still portable and can still be marketed as such.

i also have the feel they wont put touch controls of any kind in the system, we havent seen anything in the trailer for the tablet. So this means they maybe saved there money too to have more power

Considering how Nintendo's marketing has been... I doubt they would do a good job at showing what makes them different apart from one connects to a TV and one doesn't... Most people would just see them as one with a big screen and the other with the small one. Assuming it even happens.

Yes cause carrying a charging cable is exactly what people want to do with a portable device. If the battery life really is poor, that means they would have to charge it often. I wouldn't call that convient at all... Specially since we don't know whether or not a portable powerbank can output enough to charge it faster than it is draining.

Docked? Maybe. As a handheld? Yeah, but no, even on 14nm that just too much watts for handheld.

lol it might have a chip technically as strong as the ps4 one but as long as the chip is supplied with 20W- and the Ps4 one with 100W+ , the ps4 will perform at least twice more than the Switch, otherwise the Switch will burn in poeple's hand.