Nope.

I forgot all about the speaker.

I believe it is an IR camera. It depends on what the camera can read on the screen. Basically your code could have something like borders or some hidden blocks in the picture the camera can read. We know it detects shapes and distance, so it's apparently emitting the IR light by itself. The biggest problem I see with the pointer is, the retarded button layout. Wii Remote had A to jump and B to shoot, while the joycon in practise has only SL as a practically available button for jumping and shooting.

Likely not, the tech in the Wiimotes probably won't be able to work with the new Switch games that may use motion control. Maybe the joy cons can be used in the say way, if Smash is announced for the Switch.

Its just a more powerful / precise version of what was in a wiimote. They demonstrated its ability to point and read gestures, etc in the reveal. Its called an IR camera.

Z-trigger gone too. @underlined. That wouldn't work with IR because the TV screen is all the same 'colour' as far as the IR camera is concerned. It works off IR/heat. A visible light camera could do it.

The IR camera in Switch is definitely better than Wiimote. For scissors, paper, stone, I assume your hand acts as the IR source. Regular cameras can do this using visble light but it's easier with IR because there's no interference (other heat sources).

'Pointer' controls need 2 sources and the pointer uses them to work out where it is. Without those sources, I don't see how it can be as accurate. It's like having kinect or eyetoy in the joycon. Eyetoy/Move does it the opposite way to wiimote and use the glowlights in the controller as the sensor bar and camera under TV (Sony can't copy joycons without putting a camera in the controller haha).

I'm sure the joycons can do motion-aiming and it's probably much improved. I hope I'm wrong and someone could explain how the joycon pointer knows where it is in relation to TV screen but I don't see how.

I say yes - if only for Wii VC as well as the fact it's their most prolific controller ever.

Button layouts are not a 1:1 match between wii remote and nunchuck and the joy con - which presents a problem for VC.

Well we don't know yet much about the controllers. There's always a possibility that the camera can work with visible frequencies too. If it can detect heat from the TV screen, I don't think it really would need more than that. Then again, using the sensor bar wouldn't be any stretch either.

If it can detect your TV, it's propable the controller can understand and calibrate itself to a position relative to TV.