Yes but again, the X1 is Maxwell where as the one for NS is Pascal... The performance/watt gains are massive in comparison if we look at the GPUs that are currently avaliable.

Yea the A10 Fusion consumes less watts but ipads/iphones and etc also have more things to consume that battery. Such as cameras, better screen, higher resolution, etc. The Switch is Rumored to run at 720p and the benchmarks you stated were running at 1080p. So even if the Tegra is downclocked, the lower resolution will increase its performance... Also not to mention that the NS will not have most of the things that ipads/iphones do that would lower its battery.

It'll certainly sell more than the WiiU in my opinion, but everything else is up in the air, it could sell just 30 million, it could sell 90 million, who knows?

I have a prediction: it will have amazing sales, like, PS4 like sales, and it will reach 40 million in 3 years, and boring people will sale "it is a failure cause it should have 3DS + WiiU sales cause it is both and bla bla bla".
But Nintendo will get very strong with the profits.

It also would be awesome it the Switch turned out to bring peace to the Middle East :) 

Well I will give the OP props for actually doing some research. It isn't as powerful as a PS4, I don't think anyone would seriously expect that though, it's a tablet form factor, if it was as powerful as a PS4 its battery life would be 15-20 minutes and/or you'd be danger of melting the entire machine's inside.

But good for you for tracking down actual benchmarks, they might be illuminating for some people, though a tablet which is 1/3 a PS4/XB1 is nothing to scoff at for purposes of portability.

I think my main dissapointment with the concept is there's no real big extra power in the dock. That seems to me like an oppurtunity missed, something 1/3 an XBox One on the go, but could "power up" to equal to XBox One at home would've been good for me, though admittedly more expensive.

One thing I should point out though is you got the Nvidia Shield console price wrong. It's $199.99 without a HDD, and that price is from over a year ago, meaning it probably could be sold cheaper for now if Nvidia really wanted to.

So lets say $150 for the hardware + $50 for a 6-inch 720p screen + $20 for your dock. Yeah $250 is not entirely out of the question, though it could be $299.99.

Enlighten me what's the specs? What's the price? What's the launch line up? Oh waitch you don't know but here you are presenting your guesses like it's facts. I'll give you bit off info. Name one video game playing device that's hadone pokémon that has failed? And I mean pokémon mainline? You suddenly think no-one wants pokémon anymore or monster hunter etc this thing will go beast mode in Japan.

Don't see the battery life being to good.

I'm hoping it won't fail because I need my fix on Mario, SSB, and Legend of Zelda Games.

I think it's a little early to tell how well it'll do though

Monster Hunter was on the Wii U too, no? Did I miss the Pokemon Switch announcement?

1. Yes I see your points and that basically one of the biggest plusses i see with the switch. people that plan on getting an ipad might get the switch instead IF it can do the same like an ipad + play nintendo games. BUT Im not sure nintendo can achieve that for several reasons:

1.1 Apple has ALOT expierence in the tablet buisness. They are making tablets scince 6 years. Their OS is very, very good and the iPad is very productive. Also Apple has alot more money and manpower that is working on their OS in infrastructure. Nintendo will most likely not beeing able to compete and they wont use android. its not that easy to develop an OS that just works fluid. Even the Ps4´s OS/Menu is ALOT more buggy and laggy compared to iOS on an way less powerfull iPad

1.2 Marketing/image: Nintendo still have a very childish marketing. Apple/Samsungs marketing is buisness, not gaming. Same reasons many people dont want to get those acer predator gaming notebooks. Its just not goot image to get a "gaming.toy" for many people.

1.3 Tablets are declining. The great days are over. Look here: https://www.statista.com/statistics/269915/global-apple-ipad-sales-since-q3-2010/

And Appe is the big player in the tablet marketing. They sell 50mio ipads yearly at the moment. Just to sell 20% of that (10mio/year) will be very hard for nintendo and apples/tablets sales in general are going lower and lower.

1.4 Nintendo ALSO NEED to have all those tablet features (touch screen, good web browser, youtube app, facebook app, twitter app, snapchat, instagram, youtube and much more). It already wont have a camera, so that will already be a disadvantage if they want the direct competition with apple.

All gaming tablets yet (like Nvidia Shield) failed horrible.