I've seen a lot of FUD when it comes to the Switch's hardware power and its third party support, calling the handheld doomed before it even launched. Let me just show you how the software line-up of a potential hybrid console could look like... I'll bold the games that scored over 80% on metacritic.

2013 First-Party Line-up:

- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity

- Luigi's Dark Mansion

- Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D

- Animal Crossing: New Leaf

- Mario & Luigi: Dream Team

- Pokémon X/Y

- The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds

- Fire Emblem: Awakening

- Pikmin 3

- New Super Luigi U

- The Wonderful 101

- The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD

- Wii Party U

- Mario & Sonic at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games

- Super Mario 3D World

And these are just first-party published games...

Here's the list of notable fused third part support in 2013:

- Sonic Lost Worlds

- Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate

- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attornies - Dual Destinies

- Lego Marvel Superheroes

- Skylanders: Swapforce

- Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millenium Girl

- Rune Factory 4

- Fifa 2014

- Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure

- Steamworld Dig

- Shin Megami Tensei IV

- Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate

- Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate

- Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed

- Rayman Legends

- Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut

- Need for Speed: Most Wanted U

- Lego City Undercover

- Resident Evil: Revelations

- Ducktales Remastered

- Just Dance 2014

- Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes

That's 22 games in total that scored over 80% on metacritic.

I see no godamn Turok in there!

That would sell a lot of units ... to the people who already buy Nintendo games and consoles. Pokemon is the only franchise on that list that would spur growth.

Without 3rd parties support, any console will be as good as dead. Nintendo has large 1st party games, but it is not enough to save a console, if it is enough, WiiU wouldnt die at all.
Only exception will be like Wii whose motion console idea really worked out well, in this case, even 3rd parties dont like the hardware, they will port games to it.

For switch, I dont think a home/handheld hybrid console will work as well as Wii, so it needs 3rd parties.

It's doomed to not get substantial western third party support, but the console itself isn't doomed. It could be very successful and a fantastic console.

I never thought that power was the main reason for lack of third party games there for Nintendo, although I accept the easier the port the better.

I just think that for some reason Third P Devs believe that a lot of Nintendo console owners seem to be pretty much satisfied just by buying Nintendo software, I wonder why they got that idea...

I'm not worried about western support, because those games I play them on my PC. I care more about Nintendo games, japanese RPGs and some other titles that come to Nintendo handhelds. But if the device has no steady (not even strong, just steady) western support, that's a lot of people who might just not care. At the very least the EA sports, CoDs and Assassins Creed are a must, considering T2 won't bring GTA anywhere near the console and I fear Skyrim (and possibly Fallout 3/NV HD) will be the only Bethesda-Zinemax title from them to be ported.

Why I don't care? I'll just buy it on Xbox or PS.

I don't really think it's necessary. I think that it's a wise choice to have a cheaper, underpowered console even if that means not having third party support. Nintendo and its third party associates are more than enough to make the console sucessful. Although I think Nintendo might try to have on the console games like FIFA and CoD.

Here's the list of notable fused third part support in 2013:

- Sonic Lost Worlds

- Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate

- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attornies - Dual Destinies

- Lego Marvel Superheroes

- Skylanders: Swapforce

- Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millenium Girl

- Rune Factory 4

- Fifa 2014

- Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure

- Steamworld Dig

- Shin Megami Tensei IV

- Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate

- Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate

- Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed

- Rayman Legends

- Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut

- Need for Speed: Most Wanted U

- Lego City Undercover

- Resident Evil: Revelations

- Ducktales Remastered

- Just Dance 2014

- Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes