Ah, I misunderstood you, I thought you meant that you expected all major third party releases in 2017 would come to Switch.

Although technically speaking, I think it would depend on the game; for example, it would be a lot easier to port a game like Skyrim Remastered to Switch than a game like Witcher 3.

Patents =/= Source 

I don't care about just one stat like the amount of GFlops a machine can deliver and that's especially if it's just rumored. Clock rate also determines how fast the machine will perform and if the Switch is clocked at less than half of the Tegra X1, there's almost no chance of it matching the SHIELD Android TV which struggled with last gen ports seeing as how Nvidia is usually only able to fit in 1 GPC in their mobile chips ... 

I don't know how you sleep at night with these huge leaps in logic ... 

I have no idea what you're compulsive obsession is about in belief that the Switch will somehow come on top of another similar unit which is actually released with active cooling, has constant power supply from the wall and is in a bigger form factor to allow better ventilation of heat ... (Even if you believe that the Switch will get a fan to cool off the processor it still won't have the benefit of having a higher power consumption.) 

The relatively ginormous Google Pixel C could only clock the Tegra X1's GPU to 850 MHz so what hope does the Switch have to do better ? 

Exactly. ;)

You have MicroSD to exapand the storage.

Flops and bandwidth are pointless metrics on their own.
Remember, if it is based on Maxwell/Pascal, then it is using colour compression where-as the Xbox One and the Playstation 4 do not.
Thus, that 25Gb/s in the real world should be higher than the number implies.

It will be fine for 720P with 1080P for lighter/older/simpler titles.

Patents are just a legal protection of "Ideas".

Companies are constantly making patent claims, even when they have zero intention of using them, they have value during times of litigatation, gives you a leg-up in cross-patent agreements and licensing deals.

A patent is not empirical evidence for anything.

Wut. Are you confused?

The Nintendo 64 had technical limitations though which prevented a ton of games going multiplat.
You were not going to get a game like Final Fantasy 8 that spanned across 4 optical discs (2.8Gb) on a cart with a maximum of 0.064Gb for instance.

PC was also pushing optical media heavily at the time.

As for the Gamecube... We need to keep in mind it had the smallest amount of market share, but only just behind the Xbox.
However... The difference was in development.
The original Xbox was basically a PC, even used a Windows Kernel, Direct X (Plus another Low-level API.) and used x86+nVidia hardware.. That allowed the Xbox to be attractive to PC developers, as development was super easy, hence why it got gems like Morrowind.
The PS2 had the bulk of the market. It was where the money was.

With the Wii and Wii U, it was a generation behind.

We also need to keep in mind that Nintendo hardware typically favours it's own developers in terms of sales, Sony and Microsoft do work with big 3rd party developers on development and advertising which probably helps bolster that...

The difference with the Switch though is that Nintendo is leveraging nVidia's hardware stack and nVidia's software stack and one would assume that Nintendo would also be able to leverage the ties that nVidia has formed with developers as well.

Another piece of tidbit is that shader model 6 goes one step further than SPIR-V in terms of exposing more features from the GCN microachitecture ... 

WaveOnce and GlobalOrderedIncrement along with WaveGetOrderedIndex are pretty specific to AMD ... (DPP from GCN3 is also a good idea for implementing quad swizzles) 

Not many people on this forum would understand Swizzles. (Aka. Re-arranging Vector elements.) let alone waves, also proves how far you have come over the last few years in your knowledge.
Are you going to make a career out of it? If not already? Or just an Enthusiast?

For now I'm following the books, many resources out there to learn digital circuit design ...  

One day I want to be able to use HDLs like Verilog but I'm also interested in VLSI design too ...

Maybe its 176GF FP32 & 352GF FP16, and you're right. 176x2=352.

Playing with Microcontrollers gave me a leg-up back in the 90's, also got me hooked on hardware. Haha

VLIW should have a 1:1 ratio of FP32 to FP16 or less, due to the fact that VLIW doesn't support FP16 natively out of the box on a hardware level.

Graphics Core Next (Excluding Vega) even has a 1:1 FP32 to FP16 ratio, the SoC in the PS4 Pro being a semi-custom design has double rate FP16.
That isn't to say the WiiU can't have double rate FP16, it is just unlikely... Besides, the die-shots and the analysing of those dies have shown that it is a 176Gflop design for FP32/Single Precision.. And that is the important part to take away from it all.

It was a similar case with nVidia, prior to Pascal, FP16 compute tasks were simply promoted to FP32, so it had a 1:1 ratio.
With Pascal, nVidia bundles two FP16 tasks and then promotes it to FP32 for compute and storage.

176Gflop is what the Wii U has. And that is perfectly fine, even if it is lower than the other machines, it is still faster than the PS3 and Xbox 360's GPU and the games back that up with superior texturing, lighting and shader effects, it's not going to compete with the Next-Gen twins, but it is certainly the best looking console when compared with the last generation when games are made it's way.

Hopefully this puts a lot of rumors to bed. And I guess you can update the OP again.

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http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-nintendo-switch-spec-analysis

Yep. This is certainly a surprise to me. To those I've been arguing with lately, yep I was wrong. I really expected it to be on par with a standard X1 and then up-ticked a bit but nothing crazy. This is a little saddening.

Never-the-less I'll still get one as it is still an awesome little machine with what will be excellent first party.