I know what a metaphor is and the one you used does not in any way, shape or form accurately depict the situation.

The point of the Switch isn't power, it's portability. The standout feature is being able to play the game you're playing at home wherever you please: in college between class sessions or on the train or on a plane as was shown in the reveal.

I'm liking the Switch since I'd love to be able to play a game whether I'm in bed, my backyard, or in front of my television.

And somehow the need to waste 3 times the money and time to make the same games just prettier would be so beneficial for Nintendo... We live in an age where triple A games need to cost hundreds of milions and sell ridiculous numbers to break alone, Nintendo has made clear in several ocasions that that's not the kind of trend they want to follow, even with a more powerful hardware they wouldn't necessarily make high end games just because the hardware can.

They used to do that in the past. Even then they still make a stupid decision like sticking with the cartridge and mini dvd.

Mini dvd was never a real problem, only an excuse people nowadays use to justify the failure of a console that never should have failed, its kiddy design has way more to do with its failure than the mini dvds.

I think this is perfectly fine. You will get Ninty games that will work on the go and at home. You don't need X1 performance to make a good Mario game or Zelda. As long as they keep the price reasonable via options in happy.

I really hope they release a console bundle for £199 that comes without the joycons. Just the docking station, tablet and controller with a game. They can sell the full whack at £249, I don't care as long as the option is there.

I'd be the person breaking the engine lol

Doesn't worry me either. It's better than wii-u, which i still enjoy, and its tremendously better than the 3ds.
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No, western 3rd party developers have shown they won't support a system if their games SALES are significantly lower, quite a big difference, they don't care about making their games to look the more advanced they can, they care about selling the more copies they can.

Nintendo has historically had two routes to success with their consoles. The first is to build a powerful machine that can win over third parties and graphically dominates the competition (NES, SNES and attempted unsuccessfully by the GCN). The second is to go the innovation route and use slower hardware but subvert the competition by carving out a new and previously untapped section of the market (Wii, DS and unsuccessfully attempted by the Wii U). I think that recent hardware specs news makes it obvious that Nintendo will be attempting the innovation route again. The Switch will NOT be getting third party developers unless it first catches fire and builds a strong user-base on its own.

The problem that I have is that the Switch doesn't seem like an especially innovative concept. A handheld that can be connected to a TV has been attempted before and it's just not obvious to me how it will attract a new audience the way that the Wii or the DS did. Hopefully, Nintendo has some unannounced surprises that might give the Switch a different angle in the market. One thing for sure is that console 3rd party developers are not going to be attracted to the Switch based on its hardware alone.