Thanks, Jimmy.

This has cooled my heels, somewhat. Of greater priority to me than resolution is frame-rate - and on the (extremely limited, admittedly...) available evidence, it appears that developers are more interested in pushing 4K than making games run better.

I'll hang back for a month or two, and see whether this is going to become the norm.

@oo7feynmann: Probably.

Let's get the speculative ball rolling, shall we...?

1). Battery pack - so that you can play in 'mobile mode' for longer than a couple of hours

2). Carry case - so that you can move the tablet around without living in fear of crocking your home console

3). Transfer kit - so that you can copy your games licences across from your WiiU

4). Novelty controllers - Mario/Luigi/Zelda/Metroid-themed 'handles' for the tablet

5). Docking station - basically a stand, for playing without a TV

6). Camera - for taking seriously conspicuous and unwieldy selfies in public

7). Cartridge cleaning kit - proprietary materials for keeping edge-connectors clean

8). Cartridge wallets - for carrying around your software

9). SD card adapter - so that Virtual Console games can be played without having to copy them across to the internal storage

10). Internal storage upgrade - join the 21st century, and install more than four WiiU games to your console at once!!!

11). Wireless signal-booster - to increase the distance across which multiple tablets can communicate with each other

12). Legacy controller adapters - so that older games can be played with their original pads

13). Legacy controllers - reproduction NES, SNES and N64 pads to use with the Virtual Console (yeah, like *that* will happen...)

That looks like a couple of grands'-worth to me. Anybody else have any ideas...?

@Kos1c: Very similar experience. I bought mine on Day 1 with ZombiU and the Pro controller for £349. Aside from being home to the best version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, that machine was a complete bust, for me (not that that stopped me buying over a hundred games from the Virtual Console... tosser).

Still, I wonder whether my reserve will hold. Right now I'm thinking, 'the WiiU was a let-down, and I'm not gonna buy-into the Switch until I know for a fact that it's worth it' - but when March 2017 comes around, let's be honest, I'll probably fold...

[sigh]

... being a Nintendo-lover isn't easy, y'know?

@mattsaroni24: Anything can disappear if it ceases to be relevant. Nintendo have been flirting with redundancy since the N64 era - arguably their consoles would've disappeared from the home already, had they not hit upon runaway success with the Wii.

@Stiler: They've been treating us like crap for years, mate. They'd still be charging £39.99 for Super Mario World if they thought people would pay it.

@White0lion: I think you misunderstood me, there.

What I'm saying is that that particular day's topic of entitled internet crybaby BS seemed to be ranting about No Man's Sky, and in certain quarters this entailed attacking Sean Murray personally. I wanted very much not to engage in that, for the reasons I cited above - and I was trying to encourage others to step away from it, also.

In summary: I agree with you.

@reavern: Is that what thirteen-year olds do, these days? My-my...

[dons slippers and smoking jacket, lights pipe]

@reavern: Nothing two-faced about me, friend. What you see is what you get.

I'm encouraging you to consider that maybe you should take responsibility for your own decision, without resorting to personal insults. Nobody is automatically entitled to a bail-out when something doesn't go the way that they hoped it would.

As for telling me to "**** OFF", well, that's disappointingly immature.

@korent: Yeah, PS Plus games aren't great, typically. Games With Gold generally does better.

I was all about Xbox from 2002 until 2015, but after buying my girlfriend an Xbox One in 2013 and being pretty underwhelmed with it, I bought myself a PS4 last December. It is, without doubt, the better console. I'm not sure that anyone can sensibly argue otherwise, but they're welcome to try.

However, if Scorpio is as sh*t-hot as we hope, and the outstanding Xbox 360 backwards compatibility programme continues to grow, I may switch back a year from now. There's a lot about the Xbox brand that I like... but I ain't no chump, and right now, the PS4 is better. I'm not gonna put up with an inferior experience between now and then, purely in the name of brand loyalty.

@corvus_dove: And I fully expect it to be great, eventually. I can understand some being disappointed that it's not great already, but I'm certain it will get a lot better.