I definitely believe this is a soft launch. Switch just doesn't seem ready to me. Wii U wasn't ready either.... the loading was painfully slow (still is to a certain extent) and there were very few games in the first year. If you omit Zelda from the launch schedule, after all it was a game in development for Wii U for years, you can see how weak the Switch launch window is. First party Nintendo is a lot of tech demoey games and ports (Splatoon 2 might not be a port but I've seen nothing so far to convince me that it's a full fledged sequel.) The only reason I think Switch can launch now is because they pulled a Twilight Princess on Breath of the Wild.

Hopefully we don't see some of Wii U's problems in Switch. We haven't really seen the user interface yet.... what if it's as slow and unrefined as Wii U's was? Maybe they just haven't shown it yet because they wanted to focus on other things but what if they're still desperately trying to hammer it out? After all, their paid online service isn't coming until spring or something.... that's probably not ready for prime time either.

To me this is all the more reason to wait. I should have waited on Wii U. I've never regretted a purchase more than I regret Wii U. I sincerely hope for the sake of everyone else that Switch doesn't end up being the same, but I'm not going to be one of those day one guinea pigs. I waited a year before picking up a PS4 and I'm pretty happy with the decision.