Assuming 3hr max is right and knowing 3DS launched at around that but was improved over time... Do you think it will really matter to the consumer? 

While I would of course want more, It won't keep me from buying one and using it at home and on trips.

Yep all makes sense. Its interesting on the phone scenario as well, I just bought a new phone. My old phone would mostly last the day but would be nearly dead (less than 15%) by the end of the day and that usually included me plugging the phone in when I was driving home from work. My new phone usually has over 40% left when I'm heading to bed and that's without ever being plugged in during the day. I literally don't think about plugging in my phone.

That is how DS used to be. 3DS changed the mindset to be concious of your battery life and to keep your charger with you. Switch is definitely going to require that mentality, though I do hope the dev units just had smaller batteries to keep costs of those down while retail units will have battery life at least as good as 3DS now (up to 7hrs).

RE: The open questions on 3rd parties porting games to NS long-term.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=222398

Yes, that article is specific to MS built tools for their platform. However, it demonstrates what all middleware companies are doing. They build their tools to scale to a wide variety of platforms for the simple purpose that the wider the potential audience, the more they reduce risk and the more profit is made.

NS has the architecture to support all of these technologies, just at a lower scale. So long as the barriers do not exist because the UE4 engines of the world support NS, then I have little doubt NS will receive those games.

Where it becomes more questionable is companies like EA who don't use UE4 and instead build their own engines. But, with EA in the partner list, I have to assume they agreed to build in NS support. Same with other companies in the partner list.

I really do kinda wonder who are these people who have time during a day to play a video game outside the house for more than 3 hours straight?

Even as a kid, my schedule was maybe two 15 minute recess breaks, and an hour break for lunch. Even factoring in a 30 minute bus ride to and from school, that's still under 3 hours you could possibly be playing portably. Minus 30 minutes for actually eating lunch. And I would hope as a kid you'd be doing some "normal" kid stuff like playing with friends away from the video games for at least one of those breaks. 

As a grown adult I have no idea what kind of schedule would allow you to function in society where you can sit around playing video games for 3+ hours a day in public away from a power outlet.

For people going on long plane/train trips, you can bring a bag or a jacket with an extra battery in it, most planes and many trains these days even have USB power out or even a full electrical out for you to plug electronics into.

I  disagree on both counts but its early days and we will see where the adjustments go on the switch.

Seems wierd to me trying to get the wii u spec improved. I've never been here before. It's like alien territory for me.  

I would say though that a portable with 2 gpu's (3DS with DS graphics chip for example)  is likely to switch off one completely to get maximum battery life but a mains powered console has no reason to disable functional graphics power as it doesn't have to worry about power consumption. 176 gflops, 187 gflops, 200 gflops its pretty awful which ever one it is for a console from 2012. At least we have a figure now in the correct ballpark area. No more false claims about 352 gflops.

ah man just reread most of that thread. some funny stuff in there and it was amazing how much the msony console rumors changed over time. Also amazing how much some people pushed back on my for the Nov2013 launches of those consoles.

I updated launch dates and prices based on majority of rumors / retail leaks. Seems pretty likely these are either exact or really close.

Hey great work. Some informations are wrong in your comparison.

The Tegra X2 Chip is rumored to have 1500 GFLOPS in FP16. 

In FP 32 the Gflops will be significantly lower (estimated 500-700 Gflops).

As comparison: Tegra X1 had 1000 Gflops in FP16 and 370 Gflops in FP32.

Both Ps4 and XBox Ones numbers of Gflops are measured in FP32. 

You should compare FP32 to FP32 otherwhise the numbers cant be compared.

Clockspeed ir rumored to be 800mhz.

Also: Based on rumours: The X2 will have 2 performance cores. The low energy cores most likely wont work for gaming. So its more likely it will use just 2 cores in gaming.

I dont know about all the other stuff but great work so far.

why are you using the prices of the PS4/XB1 from 3 years ago?

When the switch launches, isn't it going to be on the shelf with $250-$300 PS4s/XB1s?

Updated based on latest rumors...

I have 500~700 referring to FP32 which is more comparable to other systems and game development. I also mention it is capable up to 1.5TF which refers toteh FP16.

I am comparing FP32 only, but mention the possible upper limit. I guess I can be more specific on that upper limit.

Latest clock speed (gpu) is 921Mhz - updated just now.

I disagree with your BIG.little statement regarding gaming. THere is no reason to assume the little (A57) core is solely used for non-gaming functionality.