If they can nail down major mobile titles, mobile apps, and home games, then they will have a very great device that will find a solid sized userbase. Add 4G to the mix and a good amount of people may give up their stalephone, and Switch to Switch only.

This is a joke post, right? I just want to make sure.

https://arcadegirl64.wordpress.com/2016/04/30/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-maria/

In this blog post, she elaborates on how they may go about achieving this.

Nope, voice acting in Breath of the Wild will barely be noticable. She made it sound like a big thing. We've seen Link converse with other characters in the game - it was all through text. Don't get your hopes up if you're expecting a fully voiced game (bar Link). It wll probably be just Zelda that talks.

That's the reason they went to the Switch. You go from 5 Wii U games and 15 3DS games to 20 Switch games. Not to mention the third party support will be through the roof from Japan. It's not unlikely that the Switch could have %0+ big name titles in the first year if you count ports.

Now I know someone's going to say something like "ports don't count!" and maybe they don't. To you. They matter a lot to the vast majority of the gaming populace that never bothered to by Nintendo's last trainwreck of a console. Even if we lowball the gaming audience and say there are only 100mil potential gamer customers, the Wii U sold something like 15 million units. That means there are 85 million potential customers that they never even had a chance to sell Mario Kart 8 or Splatoon to.

Normally I'm down on last gen ports, but given the failure of the Wii U, this is a perfect chance for the vast majority of the gaming community to experience a lot of amazing games. Even if not a single Wii U owner were to double dip, Imagine the new sales potential for Super Mario 3D World, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, Mario Kart 8, Splatoon, Yoshi's Woolly World, Xenoblade Chronicles X, Tokyo Mirage Sessions, Super Mario Maker, Pokken Tournament, and Hyrule Warriors. For a lot of people these quick to produce ports will be the first time they ever encounter the game, likely at a very nice discount too.

Take a second and imagine the sales potential if Nintendo brought $19.99 Wii U selects to the Switch as enhanced ports. Imagine having a Nintendo Switch at $299.99, which you can use at home or around town, and SM3DW, DKC:TF, Smash, MK8, Splatoon, and Mario Maker available for $20-30  each.

Suddenly 2 consoles and up to 5 amazing games for them looks pretty good compared to dropping the same money on an upgraded PS4 that you most likely can't even take full advantage of due to the statistical likelihood of not owning a 4K TV.

No one praised the voice acting in OoT by Navi for saying "Hey, look, listen!". Have someone say "Wake up Link" and it's the greatest voice acting of all time. As far as what we've seen s9 far, I'd say the game isn't voice acted, the intro is, but that is all.

Being serious, the software output is what has me excited the most regarding the Switch.

Having rumour is very tricky, maybe really in some point of development Link was female too but later Nintendo changed that, but Emily had only older info. And BotW have partial voice acting, Nintendo confirmed that.

Regardless Zelda, all she's infos about NX hardware are proven true for now, and inlcuding that Zelda, Mario Kart and Smash Bros will be remasterer to NX.

Switch will soon be only active Nintendo platform (3DS will live next year too but mainly like Wii U in last year will get smaller projects, ports and spin offs), so it will have not deviaded and 100% focus and suport of Nintendo, also Nintendo will not need any more to make 2x Mario Kart, 2x 2D Mario, 2x 3D Mario, 2x Mario Party...

So yes, Switch will have very strong support from Nintendo and it seems much stronger 3rd party support than Wii U had.

I'd like to believe that, but the fact that only one brand new game was even shown in the Switch trailer make me doubtful. Unless we're just counting a bunch of "special edition" Wii U games as being a huge software lineup.