"We're all in a bus driving towards a cliff. Can we stop complaining and wait to see how this'll unfold? Maybe there are a bunch of cushions at the bottom of that canyon."

We're going to get a lot of these kinds of threads. If you like Nintendo games, just pick it up. No one should ever have to be shamed for wanting a console. People who wanted horsepower with Switch obviously have been ignoring Nintendo's trends for the past decade. Nintendo's not ever going to put out a beast-level console their fans can thump their chests over. If that's what you want, you're gaming on Nintendo consoles for the wrong reason.

Yep, a gaming device not being as powerful as other gaming devices is comparable to being in a bus heading for a cliff.........you have perfectly summed up what owning a Switch will be like.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor

You'll get games and a lot of good ones from Nintendo on Switch. And a handful of good ones from 3rd parties, Japanese ones mainly.

That said, I think it's equally true that Switch represents in a lot of ways the end of the Nintendo home console.

No one is going to use this as their primary home console other than a very niche group of Nintendo hardcore. Not with the PS4/XB1 already available to be had for $250 (that price will become permanent next year).

If you think of it as the 3DS successor it's simply much, much easier to embrace it. It's a very nice upgrade for Nintendo's main audience -- the 80-85% of them that bought only a 3DS this generation while allowing Nintendo to somewhat appease the small remaining console niche they had left (14 million Wii U owners). 

Well then those people need to sort out the priorities in their life.

That's exactly my point: RE5's problems (incompetent AI partner being one of the biggest) wouldn't be fixed by toning the graphics up or down. Gaming ain't about the graphics.

A very wise approach to any new product. As for me, as of late, I've been getting more playtime out of mobile gaming devices than stationary ones so I can see the Switch being a very good fit for me.

It would be great to see Nintendo actually make a powerful console for once, since they already have the talent to make great software,

Yeah sure but then it would just be another XBox1/PS4 both of which share a lot of the same games. That's not terribly exciting for the industry in my opinion.

If people want the latest-and-greatest hardware, they should go PC.

Except it wouldn't be, because it has all of the Nintendo exclusives, experiences only available to that powerful Nintendo console, plus all the regular third party stuff (that brings in the casuals) running on par with PS4/XB1. I don't see how being inferior in terms of power makes it stand out, aside from maybe " wow, this game run so well on this weak console."

Anybody who expected the Switch ( a portable tablet with tons of tech already built into it) to be as powerful as PS4 or Xbox One while Nintendo doesn't make a loss on it, and it's affordable is frankly insane. It's all a balancing act and I think NVIDIA and Nintendo are doing the best they can to balance the pros and cons of the Switch.