The original gameboy while portable was more or less a plastic brick, you can hold it in your hands but not in your pocket, the switch also fits this description. This was addressed with the gameboy pocket but used those shitty AAA batteries, but then was fixed with GBC, nearly a decade later of the original gameboy, being a little bigger but used normal AA batteries. Now I agree that the battery life sucks dick on the switch, but the battery life on the 3DS also sucks the exact same amount of dick, not really much difference here, except now you can charge it with your smartphone cable if it's one of those usb-c cables. Or a usb battery pack, only reason why I don't carry one anymore is because I finally got a battery case for my phone. Price for the 3ds and wii u both dropped with in a year, I got my wii u as a refurbished one for like 220 bucks (i think), so this will also drop in price in a year or so i think. Also the non-handheld game games is the point, you can now get big boy games now too (provided that third party support doesn't drop like a rock after a year). The switch isn't meant to be a console or handheld in nintendo's eyes, it's meant to be a successor to both altogether. Considering that consoles have become shitty PCs this is probably a decision to also stand out from the crowd.
That's pretty unfair. The Dreamcast was innovative in many ways and failed mostly because Sony successfully torpedoed its launch with the announcement of the PS2. The Wii U on the other hand...
