lol... it is a publisher's job to show interest in a new console.

And this is... news?

Well for the last five years, publishers seemed to have worked very hard to avoid the WiiU.

This is worrying to say the least. Sony and Microsoft involve third parties when developing their consoles. Nintendo keeps third parties in the dark and hopes they'll be on board after a promotion video. Publishers are not customers, they are businesses Nintendo should be cooperating with.

This basically means publishers at this time hardly have any games for the Switch. Most will take a wait and see approach, and with no frontrunners, third parties will stay clear yet again.

Hopefully they follow the line of success, just the fact that the Switch it's right now more widely known than Wii U during all it's lifespan says a lot, it looks that after 6 years of invisibility in the mainstream media they became relevant again.

Yay indeed, Basil. Yay indeed. Conception III for the Switch now, SpikeChunsoft, please?

It's only worrying if you're determined to interpret it that way.  The list of third parties they have is already pretty respectable, including more or less all of the major developers, and several large developers who had not published anything for Nintendo for years, if ever.  So, to say publishers hardly have any games is a flawed assumption at best.

Considering that these guys already know what the Switch is and, presumably, have devkits, then it's pretty likely that the developers coming forward are more minor developers and indies. 

It's quite possible things don't turn out the way Nintendo wants, but as of the information we have, there is no reason to be exceptionally concerned about third parties.  They certainly seem to be doing much better than they have in the past.

Said it once, will say it again: gotta have a big hard disk to attract the lazy untalented developers that patch their lousy games after release.

And then...

Must admit I missed the word "additional" in the title, so perhaps third parties do have some games ready for the launch period. However, that list of partners doesn't mean anything. It just means they have devkits and are able to develop games, not that they will. Remember EA with their "unprecedented support"?

I really hope Nintendo has learned from their mistakes and really invest in their relationships with publishers (I don't just mean money) but I remain sceptical.

You say that like Nintendo has never patched anything before.