Pros
- Nintendo's own software looks quite good. Can't really complain with Zelda, Mario, Splatoon, and new IP like ARMS in the same year.
- For a *portable* device the graphics are better than anything on the market.
- Screen quality looks good.
- ARMS looks like Nintendo is continuing to build on the success of Splatoon by trying more original ideas and that's good.
Cons
- Hate to say but third party support look atrocious. Even when people are saying "Japanese support is good" ... is it really? Where's Resident Evil 7? Final Fantasy? Kingdom Hearts? Tekken? How about a Ridge Racer? It's virtually entirely locked out of all the top Western IP too aside from a small handful and Skyrim is 6 years old. Generally speaking there's way too few games as a whole. Wii U has better developer support its first year easily.
- System is very expensive, it's cheaper to find a PS4 with a game bundled in many markets. At $360 with a game this is beyond a lot of Nintendo's kid market and 3DS market.
- Some questions about where this exists in the Mobile/Smartphone world. Does it actually do something other than play games? That's another big problem here, I'm no sure parents are going to choose this when all it does is play video games, whereas a tablet can do 50 different things for cheaper. The 3DS is at least cheap, this is not.
- Kinda has that "jack of all trades, master of none" problem. For a portable it's expensive, large, and has poor battery life. For a home console the chipset is weak and the developer support (and thus the overall breadth of the library) is going to be poor compared to the alternatives.
