Imo this is very disappointing from Nintendo, how should people take the Switch (a 9th generation console) serious when it doesn't even have the basic features which are already available since the 7th generation?

Wii = "This is the WiiWare shop. You can get everything here. Weather apps, a Browser, old games from our Virtual Console service. Great, right?"

Wii U = "The Virtual Console will be available at a later date, but we have this amazing eShop with tons of games"

Switch = "The console will release in 24 days, and we have no news on the OS or VC titles. Also, it won't have a browser. But you can download games on the eShop. Maybe. We dont know."

Switch 2 = "The eShop will be availble some date after launch. It won't connect to the internet through the system, we have this smartphone app for it. There's also no OS; we wanted to bring back the nostalgia from the NES of not having menus or options."

Its not really a big deal, ps4 was missing alot of features at launch aswell.

The wii u may have had one of the best browser on any console but it still sucked. A thing of last resort for the moment when every other device in your house has been robbed (because even thieves skip the wii u?).

Unless they would have made it much better, this is no loss.

.....ok.

It's like that in hotels, at airports and free wifi hotspots too. You have to login on a browser. I guess you cannot game online with the Switch in those places.

Better have one at least, later on if necessary. Just put the WiiU one on it, dammit.

Time to hit that upgrade button my friend, many things have changed

And at uni we needed a browser to connect to the internet as well - had to do it on my PS3. How would that work for those people?

Huh, I've always been able to connect to wifi hotspots without having to do anything. I guess things aren't the same everywhere, but hopefully this means Nintendo will update the Switch with a browser sooner rather than later.