Don't get me wrong, I'm planning to buy one, hell I basically predicted this form factor over a year ago here and even was talking about Tegra for months. 

But still ... I can't help but feel like ... "that's it?". This is what was kept under secret and a "new concept" that was totally different from the Wii U (lol)? It has Mario and Splatoon and yeah that's cool, but this is basically just an amagalm of stuff Nintendo was already doing. 

The Super NES was a huge leap over the NES. The N64 likewise over SNES. Then GameCube over N64. Even Wii, while it was basically a rehashed GCN tech wise, the controller was earth shatteringly different for its time. Wii U was a full generation upgrade over the Wii with a new controller. 

Switch basically just seems like the Wii U "Take 2" ... this time done how Nintendo wanted to do it in the first place (with the chipset inside the tablet rather than requireing a seperate "console" for it, remember Nintendo even joking that they were trying to "minimize" the console as much as possible at that time?). 

There's nothing really new here. There isn't really much of a graphical leap from what I can tell either, Mario Switch looks marginally better than a Wii U game I guess, Splatoon and Mario Kart looked basically identical, Zelda looks identical, the Bethesda game is a port of a 5 year old game, NBA 2K looks like the PS3/360 version. It looks like they're going to take a lot of port dumps from the Wii U and try to sell those games all over again. 

More like what the WiiU should had been...

Even the Wii U prototype controller foreshadows the Switch greatly, lol. 

Well it is a hybrid. So its a huge leap from the 3DS to the Switch.

We still need more details but looks like the smartest move by Nintendo hardware wise in 10 years.

It looks like a revision of an idea they already had 5 years ago, one that many here paid $300 to already play.

I don't deny it's probably the best thing they could have done now, but only because they've locked themselves out of the console market that they created in the first place due to a ton of poor decisions that they can't really compete with Sony/MS anymore, so it was either this or probably go third party. 

I am so fine with what Nintendo gave us. I also think its very closed minded to think of everything in terms just tech. I would much rather have consoles that offers a refreshing take than just more power to do less with.

I am beyond tired of techs wars. They do nothing but the creative side of industry and close doors for some.

THIS.

Well, first of all, how are you surprised by the hardware when we've had rumors for at least a year that it was going to be a hybrid handheld/console. Realistically the hardware is going to turn out better than we imagined with most rumors pointing toward a Tegra X1 successor around .6-1.4 tflops depending on whether or not it's docked, and NOW we're hearing that it will be somewhere between Xbox and ps4. So again, if you aren't impressed despite being a member of this forum for longer than I have, then blame your own ignorance.

Secondly; Nintendo games have super clean IQ but a simplistic art style. WiiU games looked FANTASTIC for the hardware and you're prematurely assuming that the launch trailer for the console is where Nintendo will stagnate with graphics and that's outright absurd to assume. Beyond that, Nintendo isn't that far off from Pixar so as far as graphical effects goes, there's not a whole ton of room for improvement - rather, I think Nintendo will focus on making game worlds bigger and more immersive which is right where they should be focusing on the first place.

Lastly, the upgrade from 360/PS3 to X1/PS4 is not as substantial as the jump from Ps2/Xbox was to the next generation. You can blame diminishing returns for that. I think that this thread is either premature or its flame bait.

I must say I'm surprised to see you being... well I wouldn't say negative, but... not positive, about this console. I figured you would be happy much of what you said for the last year turned out true, more or less.

Anyway, yeah I do feel like: "Is this it?" Quite underwhelmed, even when I had no real expectations. Even the WiiU left me with a better impression.