You keep saying FF is too good for handhelds, but all I'm seeing is declining critical reception, declining sales, declining relevance in the gaming industry, etc. 

FF's status is kind of a joke nowadays. The best selling game with FF characters is Super Smash Bros 4 lol. 

Metroid Prime 1 & 2 blow any FF game on the PS2 out of the water when it comes to graphics. And yet they still had handheld games that released around the same time that were very well received (Fusion and Zero Mission). You can have both you know. 

If the Switch has 4x A57 cores at 1GHz, that would be quite slow in the Android world where these CPUs run at ~2GHz full speed.

Another game I never expected on Switch.

Oh, sorry. I agree with you then ;)

You can say that for most of the characters in that game you know? Are they jokes to you? 

They aren't what drive the overall success of the IP. Zelda has more breathing room on this front than Final Fantasy (its core fanbase existing on the same general brand as the DS/3DS helps considerably), but even Zelda's handheld success is fuelled in large part by the reputation the core home console entries have given the series.

I do agree SE should be more proactive with the Final Fantasy IP on handhelds (though we no doubt disagree in what capacity), but that wasn't my point of dispute. It was using something like Pokemon to dismiss the viability of the development style of Final Fantasy (and by logical extension the core entries of Zelda, GTA, etc) that i take issue with.

To end off, it's worth noting that while SE could handle the Final Fantasy IP much better (and as far as I've seen they have improved considerably since the early 7th gen), it's not like they've been doing nothing but throwing money at FF15 for a decade. Whether ignoring the 3DS has been a mistake or not, the IP still has a strong WW presence. Especially in the last few years, it's been a debate more of success versus hypothetical extra success than sfailure versus success. There are worse places to be :p 

I get more of a 3DS/Vita/Wii U vibe, meaning that it will get franchises and games that Japanese publishers believe willl sell well in the Japanese market but won't get games that depend heavily on the western market to succeed -- at least until Nintendo (or another company) has proven that there's a legit market for western 3rd parties on the Switch.

With a typical Sony/Microsoft console, western 3rd parties know exactly the types of people that are going to buy it and what games they'll enjoy but with the Switch, they are going in blind because they have largely ignored the handheld market (and Nintendo platforms in general since the Wii) so they have no idea how the Switch audience will respond to traditional western 3rd party AAA games.  Japanese 3rd party publishers on the other hand have a good idea what games will sell well on the Switch because it'll practically be the only game in town in Japan when you consider the declining console market over there and the fact that the 3DS and Vita are on their way out.  For them, if the series traditoinally sells well in Japan, it will sell well on the Switch.  It's why I understand why Final Fantasy XV isn't being ported to the Switch because the series now depends a lot more on the western market than the Japanese market to succeed.  SE isn't going to take the risk of investing sizable funds and resources to port FFXV over to a platform when they don't know if the game's target market will be there.  They already got burned with the XB1 version of FFXV doing that considering most of the XB1 userbase just want to play FPS, racing, sports and sandbox games.

It would appear i did It's a comment I've seen in earnest a few times, and having recently gotten the time to properly play the game i thought i'd interject my views on the topic.

I wouldn't expect them to have this game working on the switch in such a short time anyways. And rather than have apps on the Switch, I'd much prefer games like Bravely Default or some new ideas.

"No, it can't run current-gen games... How about mobile titles instead?"

Ouch.