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sc94597 on 17 June 2017
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The Switch has the potential to beat the NDS as my favorite Nintendo console. It just has everything going for it in my opinion. It is the epitome of handheld gaming, it will get moderate Japanese support, it has excellent hardware (regardless of technical capabilities), it has decent local multiplayer and Nintendo seems to be improving their online system, it is easily upgrade-able, it has groundbreaking Nintendo titles in many different genres. The Switch is really the best of Nintendo in my opinion, and it is likely going to be the only platform that I am glad I adopted early. There are just so many good games coming. I am really glad Nintendo went in the direction of the Switch. So yes, I am a big Switch fan.

I hope this rubs off on Sony and Microsoft and they make a more portable form-factor for their next (or current) platforms. I am very much a fan of handheld gaming, and I'd love to play full Sony games on the go.

One of the things that keeps me coming to Nintendo is that the experience is vastly different from what I can get on PC. The games are different, the ways I play my games are different, the aesthetics are different, etc, etc. PS and Xbox have felt like dedicated closed-platform gaming PC's whose only reason for me to purchase them is because there are a few exclusives. If PS4 exclusives were on PC I would feel no incentive to buy a PS4. This is not true for the Switch. The portable experience weighs heavily when I decide of which platform I get multiplats, or if I will double-dip. For example, the only Elder Scrolls game I played on a console was Morrowind for the original Xbox, and that is because I found a disc for $5. I just love mods too much. But I am heavily considering buying Skyrim on the Switch, because I can do a quest here and there on commutes, or in between other things. Handhelds are much more adult-friendly devices, for people who don't have a dozen consecutive hours to play a game, but rather an hour or two in between other things.

I am expecting the Switch to do better than the 3DS, but worse than the Wii, sales-wise. Those expectations might change in the future. Unlike the Wii I don't see Nintendo abandoning the Switch at the end of its life, although it won't be the phenomenon that the Wii was. I expect 80 - 100 million lifetime sales, which will be a success over the Wii U + 3DS.