I bought a Switch over the summer. It's gr8. Or at least, Breath of the Wild is gr8. I haven't bought any other games for it yet because it looks like Switch games are a solid $60 on average, and that's a bit of a steep price tag when my enthusiasm level for a given game is anything below "I really really definitely want this".
I might get Pokken Tournament DX if I ever find it on sale or something. XD I enjoyed the free trial of it. And I'm definitely getting Mario Odyssey when it comes out. OwO (Or at least, once I can afford to spend the money on it, after it comes out.)
And I definitely like the whole hybrid-portable thing. Every Nintendo console has a gimmick, but I think this particular gimmick is a winner -- especially compared to the Wii U, where the gimmick was kind of stupid (what if your controller... had a screen...
but with the same display as the TV screen??). And I think that's a large part of the reason why hardly anyone really wanted a Wii U, and most people I know who did get a Wii U only did so kind of begrudgingly because they really wanted to play the games that were coming out on that system. XD
The Switch, though, feels like the more refined version of the nugget of potential that was in the Wii U. And by that I mean, I can easily imagine someone at Nintendo being like "haha, I could just take this Wii U controller into another room and play it like a handheld because I don't need to look at the TV screen", and then another Nintendo employee laughing along and then being like "......
wait a minute" And thus, the Switch was born.
As for whether or not it will be a success: I mean, isn't it already kind of a success?? Last I checked, Nintendo could hardly manufacture the damn things fast enough to keep up with demand. XD The only reason I was able to buy my Switch was because I obsessively checked 5 or 6 different retailers online, every day, until one of them had a Switch in stock. :P I haven't seen this much enthusiasm for a Nintendo console since the Wii.
Not to mention: the Switch has its whole life ahead of it. I felt lukewarm towards the Wii U for pretty much its whole lifespan, and I did kind-of-sort-of think about getting one whenever there were games coming out on it that I wanted. But like, by the time the Wii U's era was coming to a close, there were really only 2 games that I would've really wanted to buy for it: Smash 4 and Breath of the Wild. And not only did BotW also come out on the Switch, but then Mario Odyssey also became a thing.
And they announced that there would be a "main series Pokemon RPG" coming to the Switch at some point. So at that point it was like: the Switch already has more going for it in my mind than the Wii U ever did, and the Switch's life has only just begun. XD And the thought of all the potential that the Switch still had to offer, on top of everything good that was already going for it, was what made me solidify my decision to buy one.
I'm looking forward to what more the Switch's era has to offer. OwO
Also the parental controls video is fucking adorable. Much more adorable than you would expect from a video about parental controls. If you haven't seen it yet then you should.