Well, for the price, I expect to drop rapidly to 250$.
Maybe by the end of year(and the free trial online expires),
If not, probably a black friday deal would sell for 250$.(im waiting also a better deal like that. or xenoblade launch)
About the baterry life, you can have an extra battery. I already have one for my phone, id use the same on switch(good switch uses mini usb).

a pixel c is 600 dollars, just saying.

I agree and disagree

the battery life is somewhat speculative at this point, they may have been saying 2-1/2 - 6 just to be safe and cover themselves, if the average is like 4+ that's fine for me.

THe online service costing money is a huge negative, especially with Nintendo's negative quality of online experience in the past. Not to mention something like Mario Kart is HUGE for online play! forcing people to pay for the online part? kind of lame IMO, not a good trend that Xbox/Playstation have set.

I don't think the price is really unreasonable. 299$ for a dedicated gaming device that can be used on your TV at 2x the power and on the GO as a handheld will still be by and large the strongest spec dedicating handheld gaming device to this point? I see the value. Bear in mind its hard to get a decent new mobile phone at under 200$. I think to some extent we have to accept the reality of mobile technology- its not that cheap. 

I do sort of agree with your sentiments though, the Switch presentation was fairly disappointing. I think you missed arguably the biggest thing though- the titles announced are kind of weak. I mean what's going to be at launch? Zelda and the lame 1+2 Switch thing (which I thought would be a pack in but it turns out to be a 49.99$ title)? 

I jumped on a preorder already simply because I reallyyy want to play Zelda, but there is obvious concern.

I am honestly shocked the 1+2 motion shooting game is not a pack in for free, it seems akin to Wii Sports and something that is gimmicky and just a fun extra. Not sure who they expect to pay full price for that little game :/

I dont mind for the online payment if they have 3DS  or Gamecube or N64 games, if they comes i bite. And also we need more info about the service.

Actualy having your batteries charge over and over will take some heat and probably make easy for the Switch to break (the same principle with Laptop bateries) . They need at least have 3 or 4 hours minimum to play before charge it again, guess i will buy some external add on. 

LOL, i doubt  we will see in this forum  a super hardcore Nintendo fans that defend all of that.

The whole thing is like a Wii U redux to me... but with paid online. And I am FLOORED by that. Will Nintendo even have enough games on this system to justify that overhead? It really sounds like a first-party affair all over again.

Fanboys can defend anything.

After all, everything you don't like saves or makes Nintendo money. And more money for Nintendo is better for everyone.

The only thing that bothered me was the battery Life, but I always have a power adapter with me anyways. How can the price seriously bother anyone? The PS4 cost §399 when it came, and this one is §100 less? They also need to jump into paid online, it´s the best way to build a great service.

As much as I hate to say it, I think if this bombs, Nintendo will have to seriously consider going 3rd party or just making a console that can take anything you throw at it without any expensive motion and hd rumble nonsense.

Is not that i cannot buy Switch this year, but i have a lot of thing to buy, (new GPU for my PC is one of the reason) . For the time beeing i have 3DS and i still playing it. Is just that if it's 250 USD i will bite it or 300USd with Zelda i will buy it this years.  Yeah about the Zelda, i want to play it, but i hope i can wait.