you took the words right out of my mouth, so yeah... what you said :)

Listen I very well know how computer components work together, which is why I'm trying to get you guys to stop taking your internet knowledge of how and what a Windows PC needs to operate properly. Versus a custom gaming device, that is clearly built and designed to perform specific functions within its capacity. 

Which is why you bringing up the system needing to perform multiple tasks beyond just rendering visual effects is like I stated more of a bandwidth issue and not just concerns with RAM amount! 4GB is more than enough for this SoC because the raw horsepower isn't that strong, so it's not like we're expecting it to compete with high end GPU's...

Memory bandwidth, memory bandwidth, memory bandwidth! there focus on that instead of just thinking having tons of RAM solves everything. AMD's 4GB HBM Fury X cards should prove that memory bandwidth over sheer amount is what allows these cards to output visually at much higher resolutions.

Man, you're right here. But some people just don't want to listen. Sadly.

Of course you can have too much RAM, there's a point where it becomes pointless to have such excess that may never be used. The goal is to design a system from the onset that has as few bottle necks as possible, not adding hardware for the sake of having more than needed. It's like saying I have a 4 cylinder car that's excellent on gas but let me put a 30 gallon tank on the car just because I can!

I really can't and won't understand the need of defining it as a home console/handheld console/tablet/whatever. It is what it is. Call it what you want. We'll know the specs, and what it's capable of probably in January. The concept is clear enough. People might like it or not, but I don't think almost anybody care about... semantics. You might see it as a portable console which docks in the TV, or as a home console you can carry on with you, and I think both are perfectly valid since it's not power what defines a home console. And we don't really know anything about it to label it yet, so we all are jumping to conclusions. 

Right now my windows 8 eats 3.4 GB of RAM, with total 8 at my notebook.

Almost a half! Its just usual setup, windows, skype, browser. It needs to be like this for system to be fast and responsible. But its not necessary for gaming.
Any kind of sleep/hybernation mode is consuming RAM since its copy always on your hdd. Game streaming function on your PS4 eats RAM, cause basically it always streams some chunk ofthe game video to HDD thru RAM (and its a big size!). If you avoid all these blows and whistles you'get a fast system with much lower hardware. That was all the main reason for gaming consoles pre Gen 8 were much faster then comparable PC machines.

Once again, the main reason for this mess is Sony's marketing shit about its 8 gigs of GDDR5 is better then X1s 8 gigs of DDR3. And the fanboys with its blind faith to PR.

That tank would offer quite a bit convenience for longer journeys. More RAM is always better. You could even load whole games or all of the OS onto it, significantly increasing load times. It only becomes an issue when it's about power consumption. But that shouldn't be a problem with LPDDR4 which already is ridiculously efficient.

That said, 8GB is certainly not "too much". You can always overclock a chip to make it faster, what you can't do is overclock space to make it more.

I understand your sentiment for having convenience, but at what point does it become non effective and completely negligible towards even the overall price of putting such convenience in a box... Not sure how old you are as a gamer but all of this talk about just putting more in for the sake of more, almost reminds me of when Sega was designing the Saturn and put all sorts of processors in this device and had no clue why they put them in there!

let alone they could never tap into that power that was inside the box, because it was simply a glutinous designed console and not an efficient one... The PS1 was just a straight forward designed console and it showed, this is what the Switch will be.

After the butt thread, if your accusations are true, she must be the most serious-about-her-job viral marketer in the world.

I could make the exact same accusations that you make about let's say the bananaking guy and Sony or the xbox guys on the site that I've forgotten the names of. Or about you! Doing accusations without evidence is easy.

That comparison is bad. More RAM does not add complexity to the system, it just makes it more convenient for both developers and consumers. It has literally no drawbacks.

We can argue about the usefulness of 16GB over 8GB but anything below 8GB is a joke. Believe me, every dev who tries to port something on the Switch will kiss Nintendo's feet if they double that RAM. 4GB is simply not enough and only adds hurdles to everyone involved.