As someone who functionally never games outside of their home (regardless to if that gaming is on a portable device), i find the Switch incredibly depressing. I understand why it's priced and speced how it is, but to me personally i'm effectively being asked to pay the full price of a brand new 2017 system for something that's specs i'd have thought poor half a decade ago. Even the Pro, which serves no function other than to offer me improved image quality feels like a better value proposition.

I will more than likley pick up a Switch eventually (Zelda alone makes it a probable event), but not until it's either significantly cheaper, or has more games i want enough to disregard my backlog. A mainline Pokemon entry for the Switch that makes proper use of the hardware would do it. Specs from a 1960s calculator or not, when you're use to play Pokemon on a stone tablet, the Switch might as well be a super computer

My husband demands a lot of my time, so I don't get to spend a lot of time on home console games...
If I were to play Breath of the Wild on the Wii U, it would probably take me a year to finish it...
So long as the portability function works as well as Nintendo wants us to believe, the Switch is actually perfect for me...

I love consoles and handheld equally, but neither of those have to due with why I want Switch.

I want Switch because for the first time since N64, I feel like Nintendo made an awesome piece of tech. Add on top of that Super Mario Odyessy which looks like the first propper sequal to Mario 64, and I am the most excited I have been about a Nintendo product in 20 years. If they can bring a Donkey Kong 64 sequal and a full Pokemon game to the device, it will be my favorite Nintendo product ever.

For me the main benefit is that it brings portable games to my tv, and hopefully they'll be modified slightly to also fit the big screen. I've connected my psp to the tv before and it's just not meant for it. Even MGS Peace walker in the HD collection didn't feel like it belonged. Same with other ps vita/psn cross titles. They always look out of place due to the UI being made for a handheld. Ports from Vita games do work as the controls and UI have been revamped. So perhaps now games will be made to work as well in portable and big screen mode from the start.

Anyway that's the main advantage, a much bigger library to choose from. And a combined audience to make games for should also attract more developers. Yet paying a 50% premium on a handheld, or only get 25% of expected performance might be too much for some for that comined library. As the poll stands now, it is too much for 6 of 39 (15%) of handheld gamers, and 15 of 34 (44%) of console gamers.

Probably handheld gamers, because this will allow us to truly get some amazing looking that were limited to 3ds hardware but we're still amazing. The next Fire Emblem, Monster Hunter, Pokemon and many other 3ds only titles will get a massive boost from being made for the Switch...

yeah I think the 300$ price tag will hurt it somewhat because that will be out of some people's budget if they are looking at raw power, those joycons and the pro controller packed a little too much tech. I understand why they wanted to put in the HD rumble but that shit is not needed for most gamers, not until they actually come out with a lot of games that use it in a smart way, but the HD rumble is defintely a gimmick rather than a requirement and that jacked the price up like crazy IMO.

From a handheld perspective I am thrilled with 90% of Switch. Battery life may be an issue, I never see me using the various "Wii" type functions demonstrated in 1 2 Switch, and the price is a premium one for a handheld.

At this point I don't even view it as a home console, I view it as a successor to the 3DS/Vita with a Vita TV packaged in.

No. In fact Nintendo has reiterated without being asked continuously that this is a home console. No one here should be surprised if Nintendo announces a seperate Handheld in a year or so, and even less people should be surprised if that handheld is incompatible with Switch cartridges but is extrememly easy to port Switch games to and vice versa. That way they can still double dip on their fans that will buy anything Nintendo, and they can still control what games come to what system knowing they have millions of fans that will buy both platforms just to buy a handful of franchises.