Man I'm loving my Switch.  

Full disclosure:  Im a graphics guy..  PC rig with 1080, PS4 both in my entertainment center.  So, id be lying if I said the framerate hitches in BOTW don't bug me.  Even my wife noticed it....  BUT....  BOTW is a beautiful game none the less, and I cant help but feel that this is the future of gaming.  

As the nvidia mobile chips get better and better, Sony/Microsoft will have no choice but to make high powered tablets with Docs just like the Switch.  The fact that I can play the switch in bed, in the bathroom, while my wife is at the mall, wherever, yet simply plug it into the doc, pick up my pro controller and Go, is AWESOME.  If you dont have a Switch you dont know what I'm talking about, and even I didnt think it would be all that great...  But I was wrong.  

Bravo Nintendo...  Just like the Wii motion controls, eveyrone will try to copy this; lets see if they succeed.

That's oly under the assumption that 3.5 M Switches would have been sold, and that's something we don't know yet.

Consider now this way: if in three weeks Nintendo allocates an aditional 1.5 units but the Switch is no longer sold out, then I would consider that Switch launch is "ok", since demand is not expectedto be too high in March, outside early adopters. But if the Switch would launch in November selling 2M and in 3 weeks is not able to sell an additional 1.5 M I would consider it a failure, since demand is expected to be bigger in November/December.

We don't know yet how big the demand of day one Switches is, but with the data we have I would consider it at least ok, and potentially great (or if it sunks suddenly next week, also potentially a failure). 

Lol no, unless you have been living under a rock, you should know that what nintendo has done with the switch isn't even the first time anyone has done it. Its just a really great handheld that allows you plug it to a TV.

Nothing really stops sony or MS from making a really great tablet with attachable controls too that allows you play a game stream from your home console you know? Or so many other possible options. Nintendo has just pushed a handheld out that comes with a tv dock and some are acting like its the best thing since sliced bread.

Xmas will tell the true story

Launching in March hurts a bit because it's not a traditional time to launch a console. As long as they keep in the conversation + a good E3 to get people excited, then I think it'll be fine.

It is a bit a slow start from the internet hype I heard from all angles.

Hmmm, doesn't seem particularly "quiet" to me.. 

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-03-07-nintendo-trumpets-record-switch-sales

http://kotaku.com/the-first-nintendo-switch-sales-numbers-for-japan-1793032877

http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/switch-console-launch-nintendos-biggest-ever/

http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/03/07/switch-launch-sales-in-the-americas-are-nintendoas-best-ever

*(also still sold out across the board online at nowinstock.com as of this posting)

Now the question is, when the thing keeps selling strong into next year, what excuse will people use to discredit Nintendo this time, since the "casualz" arguement won't really hold up any longer? Stay tuned! :P

Can't Wait!

It is already funny see the try harders making a shitstorm of isolated cases with defective switch's, like if all the others console's launch in the history have been flawless.

a lot of golden posts to quote here. Congrats everyone

A horde of idiots running like wild animals destroying everything around is now a metric of successful launch? Is this something people wanna see to generate buzz around a console? Hopefully everything was executed in a civil manner with switch's launch

well not a metric for a bad launch