As pre-arranged marriages go, will these 2 audiences learn to love one another and will gamers get the best of both worlds, or are the compromises going to grate and lead to extramarital adventures.

The positives for primarily console gamers:
- Continue playing the game anywhere when the tv is unavailable or staying in a nice warm bed on a Sunday morning trumps getting up.
- All those games that went handheld only, they're back, plus many more.

Compromises:
- Not the most ergonomic controller, the one you want, sold seperately.
- Bad price/power ratio if you're only interested in playing on the big screen.


The positives for primarily handheld gamers:
- Play the games on the big screen together when crowding around a little screen feels cramped.
- All those big AAA games, now play them anywhere.

Compromises:
- Low battery life as a trade off for a powerful handheld.
- Pretty large for a handheld.
- Bad price/value ratio for HW and games if you're only interested in a handheld.


Questions for both:
- Will games be optimized for and run smooth in both screen and handheld mode?
- Will the touchscreen be used for handheld mode?
- Will big screen mode get full dynamic range surround sound treatment?
- Will the text and UI size accordingly between the 2 modes?
- Will the fov adjust appropriately between screen and handheld mode?


I'm a 100% big screen gamer. I even dislike playing games on the WiiU gamepad. Staring at a little screen with at best headphones for decent sound is just not for me. Unless that screen is strapped to my face, yet even then I prefer full surround sound over headphones in VR. Yet maybe, with the Switch, the possibility of grinding in bed (the kind without the mess) before playing the main quests on the big screen could persuade me.

Since the official announcement, I've already said many times that it will be the Vita dream, so you know where I stand on that one lol. If I get to play games then I don't care where I am or how I do it, always got my PC at the end of the day lol.

I'd say it depends on the person. For example, for me i'll probably take it on the go to college, but since my breaks are max 2 hours and i most of the time still have work to do i won't exhaust the whole battery, so the battery life isn't an issue for me. On the other hand, people who often take flights will have to bring a portable charger.

Personally, as someone who would use it both as a console and handheld, i'm satisfied as long as the charging is bearable.

I would imagine console gamers. Nintendo's handheld fans have had a decent system to play with for the last 6 years or so. Console gamers haven't had anything to get excited for in a while.

I've always had a bit of a grudge against the Vita. Stealing away Wipeout and Valkyria Chronicles, same with 3ds getting Ni No Kuni way before I got to play it. Plus I never heard the end of how great professor Layton is from friends. (My kids have a 2DS, no tv out unfortunately)
So although the launch line up is pretty bad, the Switch has great potential.

Nintendo's handhelds are always great and the Switch brings a huge jump in graphical power from the 3DS, cant wait for Pokémon + Animal Crossing to come to this thing!

I'm primarily a handheld gamer. But the Switch doesn't seem like it is offering the sort of software I want aside from a few RPGs. But even the RPGs seem a bit off, Xenoblade 2 doesn't look like what I want, and Mario Odyssey looks kind of uninspired compared to Galaxy games, I am getting a very 3D World/Sunshine vibe from it, and probably won't enjoy it.

On the other hand, Zelda, Arms, Street Fighter, that Octopath square game, and the Dragon Quests are all very exciting to me.

As a handheld gamer, I'm primarily interested in having games that are A. Like books, or B. Have great local multiplayer.

I don't like games like Metroid. or Doom, or Call of Duty, or anything like that.

Maybe they'll come out with a switch micro

I'd say handheld gamers who will be able to play their games on a stronger machine.

this, I'm excited to have  a powerful handheld console where I can play games like zelda and games like pokemon.