N64 did not have Hall Effect, N64 used 2 wheels. Saturn and Dreamcast did. SEGA was the only one doing it.

The Reddit guy is also saying he was told the reveal will be in January.

He saw the final retail model with the box and everything else but was not allowed to turn it on.

There's a hardware bundle or variant with a game that has 9 in the title (Mario Kart 9 most likely). It's a 1st party Nintendo game. 

The dock is rounded on one side at the top, the Verge guy speculates this is to prevent people from lying the dock down because there is a second fan in the dock (so you don't want the vents to be accidentally blocked). 

The magnets inside the new Joycons can be used as buttons when held horizontally I think (?)

Dark grey all around is the color of the model he saw, there is an all-white model too, and a bundle or hardware color variant for Mario Kart 9 apparently.

There is some kind of laser feature in the Joycons (?)

Confirms the new C-button on the right Joycon, but no one knows what this does. 

From the Verge article:

On Reddit, NextHandheld (the leaker) cryptically teased that asking if the dock had a fan was "the right question," and in a picture shared with The Verge, I can see the alleged dock has big feet around back, ones positioned so it can lie down horizontally without blocking a set of vents.'

'NextHandheld says the dock is rated for 60W, while the Switch 2 is rated for 45W, both of which would be substantially higher than the original if true. The original Switch had an unusual 39W charger for both docked and handheld modes, which only provided up to 18W for the handheld.'

Sega was ahead of its time- always. Never they had the weakest console with the expectation of Saturn to N64 and the Dreamcast to PS2 even more obvious vs Gamecube and the Xbox. If Sega released a Dreamcast sucessor it would have had at least 2,5 TFLOPS total (PS3 1,8 TFLOPS- in both cases of course i am talking about total power, not GPU but that would have also likley been be far superior to PS3 and Xbox 360). Sega even was ahead of the PC many times, especially with the Dreamcast.

If SEGA made a console after Dreamcast, it would likely be based on the Lindbergh arcade board—the same Arcade board that had After Burner Climax, House of the Dead 4, and Virtua Fighter 5. https://segaretro.org/Sega_Lindbergh

The N64, Wii U and GameCube were hardly playing safe. All of them had some combination of risky and ultimately terrible media/controller/design decisions (also naming in the case of the Wii U) and released way too late.

The Switch is basically Nintendo's iPhone, they're going to rock that design forever.

It seems a bit underwhelming. I do hope they have something up their sleeve though. There were rumours of dual screens being possible but not sure if that has had any traction.

Granted, the SNES sold 80% the hardware the NES did, and in about half the time. Unlike the NES (which received marketing, new releases? bundles, and price drops), the SNES was killed off by Nintendo when the N64 launched. I think the SNES’s lower sales than the NES is more about Nintendo switching up to hard generation lines - basically slashing and burning the old ecosystem to make way for the new to replace it. And it’s not the only time Nintendo could have extended the lifespan of their consoles parallel the next generation - GBA and 3DS both could have sold significantly fewer units had Nintendo treated them like the SNES.

I totally agree, and I’ve been saying for years now I think playing it so “safe” like this could backfire in a huge way for them. Nintendo isn’t Nintendo because they played safe. With the exception of maybe the GBA (which is their “safest” hit console), all of their real successes were doing something very different and new at the time. 

The thing about it being actually named Switch 2 with the same logo plus the number 2 makes me not want to believe it.
It has been 40 years and just now Nintendo will suddenly name something a 2?
Not saying it can't happen, just doesn't feel right to me.

Maybe its a hint for chosing the number 2 for the name other than just being a sequel.

We can only hope