Look at you Nintendo! Making long time friends!

We don't even know if mid gen upgrades will work, and you say 5 year can't survive?  PS4Pro is already a waste of money with some games running worse on it than the original model.  Other people like myself realize that it is a complete waste of money to buy a console at full price that plays the same games as the one I have.  If you already have a 4K TV it is still hard to justify, and those that don't would just be foolish to invest in a mid gen upgrade.

That said, you have no clue what can live or die in the modern age of gaming tech.  Only time will tell.

A Switch Mini I definitely see coming in the future as Nintendo phases out the 3DS and starts directly targetting handheld fans with the Switch.  Wouldn't be surprised if in conjunction they start selling Joy Cons for the smaller model that have some more handheld-friendly design touches like redesigned analogue sticks.

A Switch Home I don't know about.  If the Switch base model is a big success and the eventual full bridging of the handheld and console market works well, I think they'll stick to the 5 year cycle, with the Mini models coming out on average 1.5 to 2 years in so you basically have a handheld focused upgrade every 5 years as well.

Hahaha. That's a good one!

OT: Nice. I'm expecting a modern machine from this partnership.

There's more to the system or systems, that's obvious, the switch is the starting point of the new Nintendo. Also, Nvidia doesn't play around with their business.

Thats good cause ARM + Nvidia is a much better choice than IBM/PowerPC + AMD

Not sure what this really means, but let's hope the Switch does well..

PS4 Pro isnt waste of money, they basically refreshing PS4 and give consumers more options, more affordable or more power one console. I think Nintedo will do something similar with Switch.

Actually Nintendo would from beginning offer Switch Pocket without dock and controller, but that would make confusion with whole Switch concept, but I definitely see them releasing Switch Pocket (smaller version of Switch for playing just on go, without dock and controller, for $100 lower price than OG Switch). I can see doing something similar for home console users, more powerful Switch that isn't portable and mobile.So basically having more different hardwares and options that or part of same platform.

That would not mean there will not be new generation of Nintendo and only Switch, but with approach like that, new generations becoming less important, and I definitely don't see making totally new platform only 5 years after Switch, more it would something similar like going from Wii/DS to WiiU/3DS, just in this case exactly same architecture (Nvidia+ARM) that will allow backward compatibility and same development method, with some new concept or idea.

means that the next 3 switches are going to be powered by nvidia

They might not play around with their business , still this is the same Nvidia that said similar things about it's long term relationship with Sony , then suddenly decided it wasn't interested in console gaming, no money in it, and claimed  they rebuffed Sony , when the truth was they didn't have  anything  to suit the brief for a X86 powered PS4 using an apu and couldn't design one in the time frame.