To all the people comparing the Nintendo Switch to the Wii U, the two consoles are too different to compare in terms of nearly everything.There are a bunch of people comparing the Switch to the Wii U and saying that the Switch is Wii U 2.0. Although there are tiny similarities, they are still very different. Concept, Games?Third-Party Support, and Success and here's why:

Let us start withe the concept. The main function of the Wii U gamepad is the availablity of a second screen. The Switch does not act as a second screen. Nowhere in the trailer did the Switch act as a second screen. The Switch is either a home console on the TV, or a portable console on the Switch itself. No in between. The Wii U Gampad could have been used as a home console on the TV, or a semi-portable console as long as it's within a specific range of the Wii U, or as a second screen to the TV, so like the DS/3DS. Second, the Switch uses traditional controls. No motion control, no touch control, not VR, no whatever. Yes, the JoyCons can be used seperately or horizontally, but it is not necessary. If you want to use it like you use Xbox or PlayStation controllers, you can. In terms of graphics, it is a bit unknown as to what the Switch can do. The most recent rumors suggest the Switch displays 720p on the console screen, has 4GB of RAM, uses 16 GB Carts as a STANDARD, and can support SD Cards. 720p makes sense to consume battery life on the Switch, but still looks great. MAYBE 1080P ON THE TV SCREEN. 4GB of RAM is actually very convenient since probably only 1GB is for the OS. That leaves 3GB of RAM for games and since it uses cartridges, that helps provide some more room.  SD Cards range in size, but still gives extra hard drive.There are a bit more aspects, but those will pop up throughout the thread.

Next are the games. The Wii U only had one big Nintendo IP at launch which was New Super Mario Bros. U. Although it sold millions of units, NSMBU is not seen as a special or hyped game and it was seen as just a port of past NSMB games. In addition to NSMBU, there were ports of multiple third party games. Some were better than others but a good amount of third parties lacked features that the other consoles had. The Nintendo Switch already has Zelda: Breath of the Wild at launch. That alone is more of a system seller than most of the launch games the Wii U had. By the looks of things, third parties seem to be really interested in the Switch. Nintendo released the third party support list and it looks really good. Again, a list is different than actual games, but it is a good start.

So why do I mention these things? People are saying the Nintendo Switch is just as doomed as the Wii U was, because of the lack of graphics and third party support. When it comes to graphics, the Nintendo Switch MAY not be as powerful as the XB1, but it most likely will be very close. In terms of games, third party support LOOKS good, and it has the Zelda confirmed. People fail to realize that the Wii U had a bunch more problems. The force of using a second screen, touch screen, motion controls, launch games were few and honestly were not that great, a whole different architecture than the competition, concept was much more confusing and so on. 

Hopefully, the Nintendo Switch is successful, but comparing it to the Wii U is not the smartest, because they have different concepts. Anyways, I want to see what you guys think of the Nintendo Switch and what are the pros and cons of the console in your OPINIONS!!!

As for sales every console is a seperate one and the performance of it's predecessor doesn't say much for the next console. The PS2 sold great yet the PS3 was a disaster for quite some time. The Gamecube wasn't exactly on fire but the Wii was.

As for specs it's closer to Wii U than Xone, it really isn't that hard to see why people compare it with Wii U. The graphical quality will of SWITCH games won't be close to PS4 or Xone games. It will be a bit closer at best, it still misses a teraflop compared to the regular PS4. It also misses some RAM, but perhaps the CPU is a bit more powerful.

As for third party support if you remember the Wii U is launch it's not stupid to remain sceptical. The NS is a promising concept, although it remains to be seen how well the homeconsole games om the go can be a successful formula.

I can see the tablet having limited battery life and getting hot during demanding scenes. The detachable controllers are great for multiplayer although the buttons are very limited. I don't know enough about the games to be excited or sceptical I will wait that one out till January.

we can´t compare cause we do not really know what the Switch is in full. We can compare it april or may.

We live in a world where people compare handheld sales with home console sales. Nothing is too different to compare.

That said, the Switch will have a lot more sales than the Wii U because it's a handheld.

The Wii U is a home console by Nintendo. The Nintendo Switch is a home console by Nintendo. We're comparing apples to apples.

Hey Vivster! The Nintendo Switch is advertised as a home console, not a handheld. It is not like the PS Vita where the Vita TV showed a person connect their Vita to the TV. The Nintendo Trailer showed them switching from TV to Portable, not Portable to TV.

The Switch is advertised as a home console in the West and as a handheld in Japan. It's both. So it's fair to be compaired with both 3DS and WiiU.

It is rumored to only be 0.3 TFlops away from the XB1. That is only if the Switch uses the minimum amount of the NVIDIA TEGRA chip. Even with 1 TFLOP it is still closer to the XB1 than Wii U. As for RAM, the PS4 has 5.5 GB of RAM for games where as the Wii U is close to 3 GB of RAM for games (MAYBE BASED OFF OF RUMORS). So it is actually somewhat close to XB1 and PS4. Also take into account that carts may not need as much RAM.

What people compare though is the fate of the console. First of all we do not know much about the console, second they are different concepts and in different situations so the market and developers may have a completely different reaction to the console.

Combining the left overs of handheld market and console market should still make it more successful than console users only. Now if Nintendo is going to pull a Microsoft and make all their games cross compatible with mobile phones, then no.