ALL KINDS OF "BIAS" WARNING
As such, I take offense to this general "just a tablet" thing, but people gotta be what they gotta be. I'm overlooking it
I develop for mobile for a living, and the Desktop, and networks...and I gotta tell ya, Power per Watt is THE metric of the future, across the board. This said, c'mon man, you are knocking Nintendo for not going x86? The "just a tablet" x86 mobile SoCs are just soooo weak for *this* application vs purpose designed and fab'd ARM packages.
As for porting - this is largely at the Middleware layer, and THAT is tuned per-arch....and this has been going on for a long time. People haven't routinely written general consumer software in assembler (for non-embedded/RTOS use) in a long...long time
C'mon
I guess I just don't understand, why, if as you say you wish the system to succeed...and you *know* it is already "set in stone" at this juncture...*how you think it would do so* with a message that seems to be largely skewed toward...not...supporting the product as a consumer?
I also, my opinion just reading your stuff here, seem to think feel *other people* think this thing is something it "isn't" based on some metrics that are, well, kind of based on Sony and Microsoft.
It is clearly a home console, with from what I've seen, home console-level "graphics" and not "mobile". It appears to have solid controllers, people are reporting them as clicky and responsive, if not small. It connects to the Internet. It is HD, connects to tv's via HDMI, supports storage expansion...it's a console. It's *small* but I don't think skeuomorphic "Base Station Dock" would have been the way to go to make it look "beefier"...this is the 21st century, you know, make it 33% bigger, add some ballast simply for weight and some "speed vents"
Nintendo has presented what it is they are selling and what they are trying to do. I don't think anyone is confused or misled. Maybe dissatisfied, but I mean this isn't Sony here and their Emotion Engine bullshit
I don't recall Nintendo saying much of ANYTHING about this one other than it will be better than the last one. The evidence seems to support this as well. I mean I didn't see anything that looked "like a mobile game"...did you? Asking honestly. I didn't get that "vibe" although the "just a shield" lead up certainly made one think we'd be seeing some OUYA nonsense...but we didn't.
I do not see where this is divergent from the Switch outside of Ethernet which in most homes is NOT the de facto connection. Why should Nintendo add a single penny of cost for a component most people don't use?
Why does the Playstation 4 "require" half a terabyte of fixed disc storage? Does Nintendo have the same requirement? Et cetera. I just find your protestations very...dissonant?