My main worry about the 32GB is that, given my library, I used up a bit over half of that. It wouldn't be hard to assume that even the average enthusiast on the Switch might end up using up all that space. As games get bigger in size, so too do the fixes.

I agree with the Xbox one updates. If it weren't for my FTTN connection I got the day after I bought the console, I'd be swearing so much at it.

If you're going digital, 32gigs obviously wont be enough (Zelda alone will take up half of your usable space) which is why the option for expandable memory is nice (something PS4 struggles with). I buy games physical, so my 32 gigs on Switch will go a lot further than my 500 gigs on the other two machines. I prefer the way Nintendo has approached this, with options to expand if necessary. 

As for the joycons not being standard, do you think the system shouldn't come with a controller? I mean, the joycon covers all types of controller options. The type you want and the type I want. If Nintendo removed them, they'd have to bundle a controller and the system would likely be the same price. 

Now I'll admit the price of the controllers themselves is offputting, which is why I'm glad the pack in provides an option for 2 controllers or one full controller. 

Because you don't see them, is a proof they're following you while hiding. 

It doesn't really work the way that you cherry pick statictics that seemingly support your argument, while making excuses for statistics that do not.

The number of software sales needed depends on the profit margins on both, tha software and hardware. In order to answer your question, we would need a breakdown on the software and hardware costs and price it's sold.

No need to push it so hard. As the dedicated console market has been going in the latest years, Nintendo will go third party someday. But while there´s still people playing on consoles, Nintendo will keep making them.

And... I doubt that many people who plays only on PS4 or XBO are interested in Nintendo games at all.  Maybe a portion but not definetely the majority

Well Switch is a wet dream to Japan And people who are traveling and a lot people.

If they sell 30-40 mil they have succeded they don't need to sell anymore because they are making money from every sale.

Is there an SD card slot or something? If so, that's pretty good.

The system should come with standard joycons, as in, joycons that can perform the main duties without the extras, ike motion, gyro etc. Nintendo could still have sold the motion joycons at a suitable price, or offered them in different SKUs, but the inclusion of these in the base package is one of the reasons for the cost.

Japan's userbase for portables has been shrinking for some time now. Unless there's a resurgence in portables (which probably wouldn't happen until smartphone companies got serious with courting 3rd parties), I don't see it happening.

40M is the absolute minimum to be considered any kind of success. Anything lower is a failure. Why? Because Nintendo would have destoryed one mediocre market and one good market to make one madiocre market total. 

Okay, I'm going to make this very simple for you...What would the average return rate be (in number of games) to match the profit of a console? Think very hard now, because anybody who thinks that the majority of cash from a console with several games is on the console, are just playing with themselves. Even at a profit, Nintendo keeps their hardware prices minimal. It's why the WiiU never got a price cut; there wasn't any more to cut. 

You can expand your storage with MicroSD. 

I don't think shaving off 20 bucks from the main package would have lowered the price. I just don't think we're going to agree here. If the controller isn't standard, no one will use it. Wii Motion + was far superior to the Wiimote but developers continued to use the standard controls. Telling people they need an extra add on to play their game will be offputting to developers. 

Japanese handheld market is shrinking.

On everything you make money from the start is a succes not only will they be making money from hardware but software and online and accesories and amibos but ok.