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If you want muscle get a PC, not an outdated console.

I have a better PC than most users here. Anyways, the Switch is a console/handheld and is kind of outdated in terms of power. its competitors has more muscle...   So we agree on something?

if this rumor comes true, it won't even be a great thing, it'll be bad for all of us.. scale down/dumbdown whatever..

Just get yourself a damn PS4 or a PC with enough muscle to play it on, and you'll never have to worry and hope for some rumor to come true ever again.

JRPGs are long and have a ton of busy work.

This is more tolerable on a handheld. I'm much more likely to want to grind on a 4 hour flight or passively while watching Baseball or something than I am to want to dedicate the whole TV and my attention to killing monsters in random encounters.

I'm loving Persona 5, but I would take a graphics hit to get it on Switch. 

JRPGs are long and have a ton of busy work.

This is more tolerable on a handheld. I'm much more likely to want to grind on a 4 hour flight or passively while watching Baseball or something than I am to want to dedicate the whole TV and my attention to killing monsters in random encounters.

I'm loving Persona 5, but I would take a graphics hit to get it on Switch. 

Nintendo being part of the mobile market in Japan does not make the mobile argument irrelevant. It strengthens it. Aside from Dragonball Xenoverse 2 for home console, the same pubblisher can release or liscense the low budget Dragonball Z Dokkan Battle for mobile, which has over 150 million downloads worldwide. Big profit, low development cost. Or instead of just the high budget Final Fantasy XIII for console, Square can also release the low budget Bravely Default for 3DS. Or Project Octopath Traveler for Switch.

And where in my post did you get that idea that I suggested that these lower budget titles would not make their way to Switch? I'm suggesting that they would. We already have a few. But Nintendo have intentionally not pushed for a large scale shift in this area yet.

As for FF7 Remake, me pointing out that Square, and pretty much every other Japanese developer, have always made higher budget games for home consoles, while putting out lower budget games on portable devices, and that Final Fantasy 7 looking like Square's most demanding game yet, is not a compelling argument? But you pointing out that the significantly less demanding looking Dragon Quest XI (very simple Nintendo-style textures, etc) will be bigger in Japan, is one?
Sure, let's use that argument. Monster Hunter 3 sold 2.5 million units in Japan alone on 3DS. And Capcom expected it to sell a lot. Did this deter Capcom from making Resident Evil 6 a home console game only? No. They made Resident Evil Revelations specifically for 3DS, but still produced high fidelity higher budget RE games for home consoles. Because there's a market for that as well. And when it comes to Square, they don't hold back a lot on their flasghip FF games in order to reach a broader audience. They have other games for that purpose. On the contrary, they've had some of the visually most impressive games of each generation.

There are no examples so far of any game looking as demanding as FF7 coming to Switch. That is an important factor when Switch has significantly weaker hardware, and Square in particular have always targeted a market for high fidelity games, even if it doesn't have the same reach as some of their lower fidelity portable games.

As for people downplaying DQXI being announced for Switch, if you mean how Square said it was announced for PS4 and 3DS, but they were only considering it for NX, that's not downplaying. It literally hadn't been decided yet. But on that note, since you mentioned how they recognise the importance of 3DS and Switch, I never claimed they don't consider them important. It's just that they have some projects that focus on high fidelity, and some that don't.

As for the people who predicted a different opening for NX, I'm saying that you're putting too much value in the predictions of random people who don't know what they're talking about.