So here's the deal. Last year Nintendo launched their first mobile game in the form of Pokemon Go wich uses (a very simple form of) AR. It became a worldwide rage. You would think they would embrace AR and couldn't wait to create a high quality  full price version of that game for their next mobile device right?Wrong! The Switch doesn't have a single camera. So no AR, no video chat, no fun video editing, nothing. I mean a tablet without camera's, really?

Can someone please explain how this happened?

Eh, i'm okay with no camera. I used the gamepad camera a total of once when making my Mii, and nothing else. I heard the video chat was good, but eh, I can use Skype or something else. And on my 3DS, AR was a distraction for 30 mins, but not much more. If it drives down costs, i'm fine without it.

I assume it was a cost-driven choice. Packing that much power into this little thing must have costed so much they had to remove the possibility of cameras.

Because it's a waste of resources. There is no real usage on the handhelds and there is no real usage on the Wii U. So, getting rid of it is a good thing imo.

This is such a small complaint in comparison to all the bigger problems of the system. If you enjoy the DS camera man than fine but we don't need a camera for the system.

What happened to the Switch main feature being vr? Did they dump that idea to go with motion controls instead?

number of times i used wii u camera... never... really... i do not see a point of it having a camera and would cost more for them to use...

oh 3ds camera... once then forgot about it and just made my pikachu look like it has black nipples

Nobody I knew that played the game even used the AR

On top of that WHO THE FUCK USES THE CAMERA ON THEIR TABLET?? I mean aside from the Asians at the zoo.

Because they don't want people taking porno pics and saving it to an SD card then when a used one shows up at Gamestop parents complain.

I did think they'd include one to allow for a port of Pokemon Go, but it seems like they're content to leave that style of game on the smartphone/tablet.