Hahaha. It's difficult to believe that people really have done that.
I really like the idea of having both a home console hooked up to the tv but also a portable console in the same device. Maybe this console can play DS and 3DS games as well? That would be amazing.

honestly? I think nintendo's screwed up again. They launched the thing at way too high a price, 280 pounds without a game isn't going to cut it in todays market where you can have a ps4, three months of plus and Horizon Zero Dawn for 50 pounds cheaper. That's strike 1. Strike two, When the payed online services does launch the monthly games you get with it are 1: going to be emulated snes/nes games, most likely downloaded from your site you get roms from and 2: you only get them for a month. Contrast that with games with gold where I've managed to get a large chunk of KI for free and it's mine until I let my subscription laps. Strike 3, they are charging full price for what should have been the pack in game, one two switch. If nintendo had packed this game in with the switch and given us a sub 200 pound pricetag I'd have been impressed. that's nintendo struck out but it keeps going... Strike 4, the dPad on the bundled controler is terrible so if you wanted the thing for fighters, forget it. You can of corse, have a better dPad for... you guessed it, More cash! An extra 65 pounds to be exact. That's us up to 345 pounds, UK pricing and we still haven't managed to get a game. We have also entered the ballpark of the launch price for the ps4 and you were getting a game with that. Strike 5: In console mode, it's still not that powerfull and developers won't like that. They won't like having to cut the game down to run on the switch they didn't like doing it on the WiiU, they won't like doing it here. I feel like it's going to be the WiiU all over again. Third party developers will be on board first, they'll release half arsed ports of multiplatform games, then just give up on it all together. The switch will get more zelda, more mario cart, more smash etc and the fans of the brand will buy into that while the rest of us think that we'd like to play, but will not pay the price. I do want this post to be proved wrong though

@Simba: The Know have stated it's 32gb of internal storage but a game can take up to 30gb.

Yeah. No. Not interested. I like the premise of the Switch honestly, I like the idea of taking a console on the go. If I could somehow get a PS3/4 or X360/XB1 built into a case where I could open it and play after plugging in the system I'd rather do that honestly.

I've seen teardowns of the Switch that state it is indeed horrbly underpowered for what it is, but then again I've also heard reports that it struggles to run certain games at 30 fps (though again, translation may not be accurate and I'm having a hard time believing that). I was interested by the idea and the premise on the reveal trailer, sure, I'll admit, I was intrigued BUT....now the thing's out and after looking at Digital Foundry's teardown of the thing, I'm not impressed at all...

The frame rate issues you're talking about are mostly a result of bad optimisation of the new Zelda game, which was originally developed for the Wii You. That's not to say the Switch isn't underpowered, because it is - it's running the GPU at a slower speed than it was designed to. That's probably partially for power management, they stuck a battery with around 4000 MAH into it which really isn't all that much if you consider that an iPad Air has a bigger battery and isn't even a games console and Apple isn't known for putting big batteries into their hardware. But yeah, the switch battery life isn't very good in portable mode, only around 2 or 3 hours for the games that are out now.

And lastly Accessibility probably won't exist for it, afaik it only has some basic support for high-contrast and if I understand the new FCC regulations correctly Nintendo isn't even being pressured too much into implementing text to speech as the regulations apply to devices that allow you to watch movies/TV, browse the web and I think communicate with people.  It was confirmed that the Switch will for now not have a web browser, won't support Netflix, Youtube or any other video streaming service and so far the Multiplayer hasn't launched yet but people are already disappointed that it will use a slow friend adding system involving entering long strings of numbers.

I don't see the Switch being a huge success really. Being cynical, Nintendo  got lucky with the Wii at the right time, the Wii U flopped spectacularly and then this....nah....I'm still not sold on the idea of it really.

Well no, the idea is fine, it's nice, but....ya know.....the lineup seems dire. Yes, there's Zelda, BOTW but.....aside from that the other launch titles seem pretty okay at best going by reviews and chatter about it, with Zelda the undisputed king of the lineup. Which is, unfortunately awful given you have to get the games seperately. Now I didn't catch on a livestream don by the Know (Rooster Teeth guys) if you can use discs but they did make a big point about how you download games from Ninty's servers, so I'm guessing you buy and download games now, a la Steam or Virtual Shop on the Wii U.

I never actually got on with the Wii U, the idea seemed nice but  it was just too clunky to my way of thinking. When a Wiimote works better than a tablet type controlller....you know you got issues. Hell I still play Animal Crossing City Folk on my Wii and that game is stupidly fun

hThe thing with nintendo in my opinion is that they stick to concepts which had there big era some years ago and are not that successful anymore, personally I am not a fan of super mario version 3957384 or Zelda what ever game. Also, the number of game studios producing for nintendo are not that many, Ok, the wii and wii U had some more of them, but next to nintendo, who is still producing for their consoles?
Greetings Moritz.

If this thing has no screen reader, it's not worth it JMO.

Personally I think the Switch is more likely to fail than not. Though imust say, I was not especially interested by the idea of a hibrid console. Maybe that is due to the fact I mostly play solo, though I still play with my brother on PS4 from time to time.
I didn't get to know how the console looks like, but from what I understood from the general opinion It seems that the console fails to be both a good home console due to technical limitations and a good handheld due to very low battery life. So I'll probably pass on it.