I've said if this was simply a handheld the reactions would be different. As a handheld it's dynamite.
I'm rarely ever going to use the dock to play on TV as I wanted a handheld and this is what I have.
Going from my 3DS to this is a huge leap.
It's clearly rushed to market as they want to get it out before fiscal year end so is clearly undercooked. By holidays 2017 it should be hitting its stride.
I think in 2 years they will release a just a handheld sku.
I really don't understand complains of the battery. The internals of the Switch shows Nintendo put the largest battery they could inside. There is no unused space to get a larger battery in there. People want a larger form factor?
You play any high graphical intense game on a smartphone or tablet and the battery drains. Unfortunately battery technology just hasn't moved as quick as mobile technology has.
3 hours and a half for Zelda on medium brightness and no WiFi sounds good to me. Carry a powerbank with you for extra juice if required.
The battery issue is one of Nintendo's own making, as far as I can see. The original claims were an estimate of 3 hours upwards to around 6 hours. I think most of the reviewers have said that it's very difficult to get more than 3 hours of Zelda out of it, even by totally compromising your wifi and brightness settings. I'm not convinced by the claim that the battery is the biggest capacity unit they could fit in the switch.
This image shows the battery to be in the region of double the physical size of my Note 4 battery.
My Samsung Note 4 has a 3200 mAH battery in it and it's absolutely minuscule, I also have a GPD XD - an Android handheld emulator and that has a 6,000 mAH battery in it, and the form factor is very similar to the switch and contains, relatively speaking, the same sort of techs that are found in the Switch. I suspect this is a production cost thing, more than it is a size thing for Nintendo.
I'm still excited by it though, it just doesn't make any financial sense to pick one up now when I can play BOTW on my Wii U.
The Day 1 patch (8gb) will be very interesting. It may be that it provides an enormous amount of battery/memory efficiency improvements and gets us closer to hitting the sweetspot.
I'm happy to sit back and wait and see, but I'm also quite jealous of those that haven't cancelled their preorders!
One area of concern, just whilst I think about it, is that the dock apparently fails to charge the Switch past 80-ish %, hopefully that's just a bug that's ironed out Day 1.