Oh Man! Why people always have to make a big drama about such things. Do you really think a bunch of idiots sitting at Nintendo hardware development team and just suck out the 4 GB of RAM out of nowhere, just coming with a random number and say: "4 GB of RAM is enough, 3x Nintendo Wii U's RAM must be enough?"

Ps2 ports did not feature Mii support or those additional games... nor the motion controls which were added to the Wii titles, as well as the obvious fact that Fifa 15 was on the Wii but... not the PS2.

Fifa aside though The likes of CoD4, World at War and Black Ops did not feature a PS2 version to start on, they were built as X360/PS3 titles and then were ported down to a machine with less than 1/6th the power... because Money.

Maybe it's just me, but what is your point? That the rumour is incorrect or that people at Nintendo do not decide how much system memory their console has?

My point is that people at Nintendo do know that the RAM is a crucial thing. They made the mistake there already with the Wii U, they will not repeat it, so if they go with 4 GB, they must be sufficient, they have check it (also with 3rd parties).

well, arent xbox one and ps4 alowed to use only a portion of 8 gbs on gaming, while the rest is used on OS?
4Gb seems ok, depending on how much can be used on games.

I more worried about memory bandwidth.

The rumored Switch specs are basically what i said Nintendo would go with for like 2 years. The device is not designed to compete directly with PS4/XBO so having equal specs is not necessary.

The whole point of a hybrid is to unify the software support of their handhelds & consoles into a single ecosystem so the primary type of 3rd party support we should expect is indie, Japanese & kid/family focused software.

When it comes to AAA/mainstream games, Wii level support or what Wii U got in its first year is the level of support we should expect.

Dear gamers of the world

Processing and RAM do not make good games, and they don't ensure success. IF they did, the PSP would have beaten the DS and the original Xbox would have beaten the PS2.

Seriously, you folks have GOT to stop getting so hung up on 'performance' (Framerate, RAM, processing speed, anti-aliasing, etc). you guys are graphics whores, not gamers.

Sincerely:
- a gamer who has been playing too long to focus on graphics over gameplay.

Because we all know it's a hybrid console and people like to swing it either way to justify their argument! Case in point, the Microsoft Surface is a hybrid device because essentially you can buy enough add on hardware to make it take the place of your laptop and tablet. Now it's not as powerful as most laptops or even in the same price range, but it's modular design allows people to choose what kind of setup that they want or need from the device.

So I don't see why Nintendo offering something similar for gaming is so hard for many to grasp in my opinion!

Well, I would assume retail units is what matters, not what dev kits have?

The argument is third party support e.g 

Skyrim remaster, other ports of current gen games. 

People are arguing specs in context of the above not about whether the console has enough umpf to make good fun games.