I don't know if anyone is going to read this, but here's my opinion on the matter.
Nintendo is absolutely shit at game deals. You got some of the best Vita games free with playstation Plus, a PS Vita, and Vita t.v. do almost the same thing as the Switch, just that 4GB limit with a few loopholes struggles a bit. A playstation tablet would be a much better gaming device than a Switch because $90 of the $257 estimated cost is just the Joycons because of HD rumble, so Sony could make a more powerful tablet, using an extra $50 for power, and come out at the $250 Vita did at a profit.
A new Sony handheld would give you cloud storage, it would give you free games, and like I said some of the best Vita games were free with Plus, it would have backwards compatibility, so you'd have 1,000 games available, even if it's just the PS1, PSP, and PS TV supported games out of the box, and if they have it to where you can play PS4 games, that would utterly be a game changer.
All that said I did buy a Switch because I got a free game so roughly my Switch cost me $240. But the thing that makes the Switch sell is Zelda and Mario. They are better than I thought they would be, I don't know why Sega can't make games of that caliber. Mario has a spin roll dash mechanic, his hat throw mechanic is almost like a homing attack, I don't know why Sonic can't do that. Seems like a no brainer.
If you don't want to play Zelda, or worse if you've seen so many playthroughs of it online that nothing is new anymore, then don't get a Switch unless you absolutely need a Vita replacement and there's games you want on the Switch desperately. The $90 dock is bull, the joycons are over produced, and you'll need other 3rd party solutions such as the kinda junky d-pad on the Pro Controller for $70 (no pivot in the bottom so you can hit both the left and the right buttons at the same time) the motion control free Power A wired pad, or some of hte $40 pads. or you can buy a grip for the joycons for Mario cart and have these weird tiny little controllers...
I dunno the system is a bit of a mess. Sony COULD do better if they got their heads out of their asses which they won't. Nintendo is completely consumer unfriendly, and Windows 10 tablet, computing hybrid gaming is just non standardized in some ways and overly standardized in other ways and just a mess to be honest.
I think the Vita even with those overpriced memory cards (because companies were going to boycott it due to the digital discount of 10% on games they were offering, in Europe one of the big stores threatened a boycott) the PS Vita has so many games, at such a cheap price that it's a really nice option.
You could use a backup battery, and a $50 t.v. with a $50 PS TV, and have a really try hard to be a switch experience...
There was the Dekavita 7
https://c.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/dekavita7-1-820x420.jpg
There was this thing for Rasperry Pis
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FFAFMM0
So... I dunno what to say to be honest. What ever it is you want you can figure out a half assed way to accomplish it at a price, but... it would be nice to have a new Sony tablet I could use my PS4 controller on and play Patapon PS4 remaster on it.
But until then I have my switch with over priced games that hardly go on sale. I mean their black Friday deals were sub par compared to Best Buy Gamerclub deals ffs.
