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The Good:

- New 3D Mario! More open world style, even though I didn't love Sunshine, I do love Mario 64, and it was probably time to revisit that style.

- While the graphical leap isn't huge, at least it's fairly noticeable. Zelda: BoTW looks noticably better on the Switch. It's not a huge deal, but it looks cleaner, sharper, and more detailed. Mario Odyessy looked better than 3D World. Mario Kart 8 runs at a full 1080p, hey Wii wasn't able to run Resident Evil 4 or anything from GameCube at 720p, so at least there is some OK jump here.

- The Switch LCD doesn't look like something from your grandma's 2002 portable DVD player from Wal-Mart. It actually looks like a nice display, even if its only 720p.

- ARMS looks cool, a new Nintendo IP, glad they are continuing to invest in new ideas.

- March 3 is a bit sooner than I was expecting.

- Even though I don't buy for a second that this is coming out this year, Xenoblade 2.

- Splatoon 2 for summer aw yes.

The Bad:

- The price for everything is too high. Think they might struggle a bit at that price post launch honeymoon.

- Third party support as of right now looks fairly ... abysmal. Worse than Wii U at the same stage in its pre-release I would have to say and quite easily at that. Unless you love non-Final Fantasy JRPGs, which is a pretty small niche of people, there are more holes in the library than Swiss Cheese.

- The presentation as a whole was kinda ... poor, Iwata's presence was missed and Nintendo hasn't done a stage show in a long time, and it showed in a bad way. Show was dull and slow.

- Launch lineup beyond Zelda is horribad.

- 1,2 Switch was embarrassing.

- Battery life of 3 hours or so isn't great.

- The graphics are maybe not quite as good as maybe some people would have liked. Better than Wii U but not by a ton.