It could flop sure, but there's probably an equal chance that the "middle of the road" 2.5 TFLOP vanilla Nintendo console that many wanted would flop too (grossly underpowered vs. Neo/Scorpio with no portability gimmick).
At least this is something immediately different. If Nintendo can pull off the whole "everyone gather around this little game station, now lets play!" and bring maybe some of the fun of arcades back in that sense ... I can see what they're going for.







