Nintendo NX Reveal: Nintendo Switch

Do elaborate, as I don't see a way this thing could affect gaming as a whole, outside of possibly killing Nintendo.

If, key word is IF this console comes out and the applications of it being a portable hybrid are as practical as promised and it isn't held back by battery life, games not running as good on the handheld NS etc. among other things and, AND Nintendo finally decides to give major support on the console in the 3rd party games department this will indeed be THE killer system and Nintendo could be the king again. Having all of the 3rd party exclusives in addition to Nintendo's 1st party games, what more could someone want?. The thing is Nintendo was king back in the day and could have always remained on top if it wasn't for some face palm mistakes it did in the past. It was these small things that were actually very significant that pretty much goes like Nintendo giving the opportunity to Sony, Sony taking advantage of this and the rest is history. Now, I know that in this day and age both Sony and Microsoft have their own iconic exclusives, but really that's basically it. For the most part, games are what makes a console, that's how it was back then and it's still very true today. If the Wii U was a good old conventional console like the PS4 and Xbox One having all the 3rd party support in addition to it's exclusives don't you think that would be something pretty significant? The system will likely kill Nintendo if they don't deliver on the 3rd party department or other things like the specs holding it back, and the hybrid applications not being as smooth. Other than that however, this can potentially turn the tables around.

You place a lot of importance on 3rd party, but don't give a single reason as to why 3rd party devs would go for the Switch.
Developing a game with a sizable budget, and funded from your own pocket, for the Switch would be a giant leap of faith for any dev/publisher and I'm pretty sure no one is keen on betting on Nintendo.
In case you didn't notice, both the Wii and Wii U were 3rd party nightmares.

That leaves us with the option of Ninty sponsoring 3rd party support and I honestly doubt they have the cash to pull that off after the Wii U disaster.

Just to clarify one thing here: the stylus was needed because those consoles had resistive touch screen display, which because of how it works a stylus is highly recommended, using that with your fingers is a pain and uncomfortable. If for some reason the Switch is going to use capacitive touch screen display (like your smartphone or a PSVita), then a stylus is not only unnecessary, but would be impossible to use the screen normally with a normal one (the same kind one uses with resistive display). Nintendo would have to develop something like the Galaxy Note/Tab stylus, increasing the costs for something kind of useless.

Nintendo Switch Is Not Backwards Compatible With Physical 3DS or Wii U Games (Digital 3DS and Wii U games have not been ruled out for the Nintendo Switch.)
www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-switch-is-not-backwards-compatible-with-p/1100-6444706/

Not surprising though...

Problem being that Switch doesn't have the muscle of the current gen home consoles, so it's just a next gen handheld that you can hook up to your TV screen, which is far from innovative.



It runs on a custom Tegra processor, meaning it will be a bit above last gen home consoles in power.
Devs stopped making cross-gen ports and completely switched to PS4/One development, do you think they will dumb down future installments of their games or invest a lot of money on creating separate game resources just to bet on the Switch market?

They're gonna use them to make hamburgers.

I never doubted it, but it's now confirmed that the Nintendo Switch will in fact support amiibos.

www.ign.com/articles/2016/10/20/nintendo-confirms-amiibo-support-for-nintendo-switch-clarifies-additional-features

Good news for me. I have 65 amiibos, and will have 69 before long. (I've got Wario, Waluigi, 8-bit Link, and OoT Link on pre-order.)

Right that's the one I couldn't remember a Tegra processor. From what I've heard there two chips the one being the underpowered one like you say and another one hat puts it around the league of the regular PS4 and Xbox One. If they use the first one like you say, you're right devs probably won't go out of their way to dumb down their games. If they use the second chip though then it's a different story. Now in the trailer we've seen that Skyrim game that I don't know much about but from what I've heard it could the remastered version. I haven't heard anything about a game like that being confirmed (real misleading of Nintendo) but if it is coming then maybe they have used the stronger chip? I don't know, I also don't know maybe a game like that is still able to run on the first chip so this example doesn't matter. Like I said we'll have to wait and see.