It'll look really dated out the gate.

A X1 makes it look dated Pro and Scorpio well it will be just brutal.

Makes sense if they are planing to drop hardware.  Milk cheap to make products till you cant and bail on the hardware.  

Unfortunately digital foundry is very credible so I don't think I will be purchasing switch. Definitely not day one I will wait for a price cut and if that never comes I will never get it. I will never pay full price for a last gen console ever again. Been doing it for years with Nintendo and my loyalty only goes so far after they constantly betray me.

It will rise or fall based on its portability factor and value proposition. It now depends on what the market will think whether or not the value is there. The wii looked super dated compared to the ps3/360 but that didnt stop it from selling. Not saying it will be the same case for the switch but Nintendo is essentially banking on that the Switch will be unique enough for its price point that people will buy it.

As a console its weak but as a handheld its strong. I just hope they didnt skimp out on battery cause then they have no chance.

No, it is better when portable and much better when docked. In almost every way possible, NS is better than WiiU.

Not entirely true. Even though consoles have had their very own low level APIs for decades it's always a nice thing to have a standard API that will work on every device from now on. It could make the porting job a lot easier.

Aside from that, when you say that Switch is OpenGL 4.5 and Vulkan complaint you're actually saying that it's hardware supports a myriad of features present on those APIs. It doesn't mean that they will utilize those APIs, obviously, instead it means that they are present to be used by them or by the very own console low level API.

Some say that Wii U has a OpenGL 4.2 compliant GPU. We know now that Switch's GPU is OpenGL 4.5 compliant. It means that there's a lot of new features present on GPU that's available to both OpenGL AND Switch own low level API.

I didn't say it will use Vulkan. I said that it has Vulkan capabilities.

Not really, this are nvidia flops and the architecture is supposed to be more modern. When undocked the console has less flops than WiiU yet eurogamer says it outperforms it, which suggests this measure is not accurate and flops in switch represent more than they did on WiiU, just like when WiiU had way less gflops than 360 but it was actually stronger. So while technically numbers says it has x2/x2.5 the number of flops it actually looks like that could be translated to something around 3 times the power.

Yes, you are correct regarding how the supporter version of OpenGL indicates which features it supports. Having them as options isn't a problem, it's a good feature. However, it's more important to have a simple low-level API. PS4 is usually considered a machine that allows easy porting from PC or other platforms and it uses GCM as its API. Devs usually say it is quite similar to DirectX, so basically designing a good native API is good enough to facilitate porting.

My critic is about the videos on the post. They compare OpenGL and Vulkan showing how Vulkan allows to decrease the cost behind draw calls and which improvements it can bring to performance. This is true for mobile devices, PCs, etc. But if it won't indicate how it will compare with the Wii because it already uses a low overhead native API. So we won't have any magical gain here regarding the API. The videos show a high-overhead API lacking behind a low-overhead one, but even Vulkan will still have a higher overhead than Wii U native APIs, while the Switch API will probably be more on par with what we expect from consoles.

I already know it's not a straight up comparison of numbers, I came to around twice the power undocked for a conservative estimation even though it's likely to be 3 times the performance, undocked has around the third of the performance removed that leaves docked at around 4-4.5 times the Wii U when taking these possible factors into account. That's before we take into account of the possibility of any tesselator, shaders and fixed functions as well as more RAM.

It's like what someone posted earliar the platform is still very much between Wii U and X1 which is what the expected performance level has been since the unveiling, the platform will get the lower settings of multiplatforms but the the trade off is that the follow up games from the portable library have this huge massive jump in power to play with, I think this is what a lot of people are missing.

The CODs, ACs, Dark Souls and so on will be subject to scaling but your Monster Hunters, Fire Emblems, Bravely Defaults, Pokemons etc... have a jump bigger than the jump from SD to HD to play around with in their realm.

As a 3DSv2, it's gonna be good.