I think it will do well in Japan, but Nintendo is in tough in the US/Europe, especially missing Christmas.

This MUST be able to run Android games (and I think it will because Nikkei is almost always correct), kids are not going to abandon their tablets for this, Nintendo must accomodate those users by letting them play the same games ON TOP of the Nintendo stuff, otherwise they're not getting anywhere.

Home console market is basically just Sony and MS now.

Looking at a closer look at the stand, I'm guessing it may all be $300.00. It looks like all the stand does is a boost of the cooling with the ports for the USB/HDMI. And it is a scaling GPU chip so some things turn off while in handheld mode for battery life/heat.

As for running Android I don't think it does, I do believe it may do remote play of iOS/Andriod, which would explain the exclusivity on Mario Run. (The payment was allowing remote play on iOS a platform that tries to be secure.)

As long as the price is good and the joints are robust, I don't see problems about them. I just see one possible problem: unless a classic controller is provided as standard equipment besides the two split controls, complex games that use the full set of controls available, or even just one control more than half of them, will have to choose between requiring an additional controller or set of split controls or giving up the possibility of local multiplayer using just one of the split controllers for each player. For most platformers and the simplest games of the other genres there shouldn't be any problem, but for complex ones and many ports from other consoles or from PC, that take for granted a larger number of controls available, the problem could exist.
About internal HW, most graphics engines are scalable, so no problems about GPU, while CPU power should be more than enough, so the only resource that won't admit shortages compared to competitors is system RAM.

to people who say no do you think that games like Pokemon and Monster hunter and Animal crossing and Mario kart etc will just fall off the face of the earth? if anything it will be very successful with what it does alongside with the combination of handheld and console markets.

Maybe Im over hyped but....

if they can sell this at 249$, tablet without docking station for 199$... I dont see why it cant sell like 60m+.

This is the replacement for both the 3DS and the Wii U after all.

Doubt its a virtual boy in sales.

3DS already had all of those and it saw definite huge declines from the evolving mobile market. 

Nintendo needs to hope no more kids/users abandon traditional portables for tablets because much of the 3DS' success came early in its life cycle before cheaper tablets were really a thing (iPad used to be the main tablet option and it was like $500 to start). 

Yes!

The thick side of the dock, has a fan, that pulls in air, and in the buttom of it, it funnels that air upwards, so when you put your Nintendo Switch in it, some of it will go up through it and out the air vents.

And then it raises the clock speed of the GPU+CPU, and scales the graphics of the game up for the TV.

That is my theory as well, I believe it ll work like that.

It's funny that now everyone is saying a price point over $250 is a-ok, one week ago: "Nintendo can't sell this for over $200!!!! 3DS failed at that price!!!".

Three seconds of Mario, that's all it takes, lol, just like I predicted. 

Yes :) a mario that returns to galaxy/sunshine/64 style gameplay.

Thats worth a extra 50$ :p

If that dock doesn't add any power then I have a hard time seeing it succeed. I don't even know who the target audience is supposed to be outside of core Nintendo fans and the Japanese. It's probably going to be too expensive for casuals, too weak for core gamers and parents will be content in letting their kids continue playing cheaper smartphone games.