Switch will end up being the greatest Nintendo console.

The Switch has the potential to beat the NDS as my favorite Nintendo console. It just has everything going for it in my opinion. It is the epitome of handheld gaming, it will get moderate Japanese support, it has excellent hardware (regardless of technical capabilities), it has decent local multiplayer and Nintendo seems to be improving their online system, it is easily upgrade-able, it has groundbreaking Nintendo titles in many different genres. The Switch is really the best of Nintendo in my opinion, and it is likely going to be the only platform that I am glad I adopted early. There are just so many good games coming. I am really glad Nintendo went in the direction of the Switch. So yes, I am a big Switch fan.

I hope this rubs off on Sony and Microsoft and they make a more portable form-factor for their next (or current) platforms. I am very much a fan of handheld gaming, and I'd love to play full Sony games on the go.

One of the things that keeps me coming to Nintendo is that the experience is vastly different from what I can get on PC. The games are different, the ways I play my games are different, the aesthetics are different, etc, etc. PS and Xbox have felt like dedicated closed-platform gaming PC's whose only reason for me to purchase them is because there are a few exclusives. If PS4 exclusives were on PC I would feel no incentive to buy a PS4. This is not true for the Switch. The portable experience weighs heavily when I decide of which platform I get multiplats, or if I will double-dip. For example, the only Elder Scrolls game I played on a console was Morrowind for the original Xbox, and that is because I found a disc for $5. I just love mods too much. But I am heavily considering buying Skyrim on the Switch, because I can do a quest here and there on commutes, or in between other things. Handhelds are much more adult-friendly devices, for people who don't have a dozen consecutive hours to play a game, but rather an hour or two in between other things.

I am expecting the Switch to do better than the 3DS, but worse than the Wii, sales-wise. Those expectations might change in the future. Unlike the Wii I don't see Nintendo abandoning the Switch at the end of its life, although it won't be the phenomenon that the Wii was. I expect 80 - 100 million lifetime sales, which will be a success over the Wii U + 3DS.

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Thought I'd add in what was the inspiration for this thread to add in to the discussion. 

Basically goes over that Nintendo needs AAA third party support the likes of Xbox One and PS4 and that they have to release a new version of the Switch which vastly more powerful and since Monster Hunter World is coming to everything but Switch, Nintendo need a more powerful system so it can run the game.

Personally I think a system with the Switch's concept as powerful as Xbox One/PS4 isn't just possible/practicle right now and would also just greatly divide the fanbase especially since the AAA 3rd party games couldn't run on the original.

How do you guys feel about a more powerful revision of the Switch for 3rd party support so soon?

Honestly, people are looking a bit too much into the Monster Hunter thing. Capcom is idiotic, but they are a public company pressured by investors. They took a gamble betting that handheld gaming was going to die, and then Nintendo released the Switch. Monster Hunter 5/World likely started development right after Monster Hunter 4. Capcom probably had no idea about the Switch. Capcom also has these weird delusions that Monster Hunter has the potential to sell like a Western AAA title. So they will likely be dissapointed by the 2-3 million that Monster Hunter World gets, release a Monster Hunter portable on the Switch, and that's that.

Nintendo has shown with the Wii , NDS, and 3DS that they don't need amazing third party support to succeed. People will buy their platforms alongside whatever Sony/Microsoft/PC system they own and people who don't game on Sony/Microsoft/PC also bought these platforms. The Wii U's probem was never third party games. It was that the system did not know who its intended audience was, and Nintendo just released it for the sake of releasing a new console. The Switch has so much more potential than the Wii U had. I mean, I personally am a huge Nintendo fan and I didn't purchase a Wii U until Xenoblade Chronicles X released, because the system and its titles weren't compelling.

Nintendo will likely release a more powerful version of the Switch, but only in the way Nintendo released the N3DS, and Sony and Microsoft released their pro versions. To appease graphic/framerate whores, and to force people to double dip, not to bring in support.  

It has a bright future ahead and it is shaping up to be the one of the best console Nintendo ever made, it's getting a decent third party support and an excelent first party support, it won't get lots of AAA-Thirdy Party games but eventually some games like RE7 or MH Portable could happen.

I don't know what to expect from 2018 and beyond, with Nintendo supporting the 3DS until 2018~2019 will the 3DS outshine the Switch or are they just going to port/remake old games to the 3DS?

Switch has everything to be a great console. It will be receiving both handheld and home console franchises, like a big Mario 3D and a core Pokémon, not to mention Zelda BotW, etc. Also, the third party support may not be the best, but it seems to be at least decent. Cool to see Rocket League in the console. 

I don't think 3DS will outshine Switch. The former's hardware is becomming outdated and is struggling to get some games. I can only see it happening if Nintendo does a hardware upgrade launching something like 3HDS, but i don't think it is likely. 

Ok generally means average. Good generally means above average. 

It has nothing to do with power.Im 99% sure that the Switch could run that game, and with few downgrades.Its just Capcom being idiotic

Going to be great.
The second year library wont be as good as the first. And Nintendo will finally meet the demand in production.
In the third year, nintendo will mostly end the 3DS support, and give a full focus to switch, and we might see a good library.
After that I can see revisions. A mini switch(sold without dock, and also cheaper) and a switch+(1080p screen and matches the docked performance). And then the popularity will be greater as ever.
Third party support would also increase meanwhile, even some AAA wouldnt skip switch. The situation is better than wii's, because most of wii owners werent gamers.

The monster hunter situation is fine on switch too.
We see each MH sells 2-4 million on 3DS on japan, and there is a lot of them: 4, 4G, 4U, X, XX, etc in not much time.
Capcom wouldnt loose this money. They will release lots of MH exclusive to switch too, and localize some of them to the west.