I've been keeping myself immersed in Dragon Quest VIII and other things, as I don't want to get too hyped with three weeks still to go... but it's getting hard to contain my excitement for launch. Amazon.ca is still showing my Switch console (along with games and accessories) as having an estimated arrival date of March 8-10, but I'm assuming/hoping that's just a placeholder. Kind of wish I got a preorder in at EB Games anyway, since they seem like the only retailer in Canada who might do a midnight launch. I'll just be happy to have the Switch on day one though, whenever I get it.
As for the lack of details surrounding some aspects of the console: I agree that we should know more about the Switch than we actually do at the moment, but, on the other hand, Nintendo is not going to have any trouble blowing through its initial shipment of consoles (according to Kimishima, they pretty much already have). It's weird that we don't know more about things like the account system this close to launch, but it's obviously not a big enough deal for everyone planning to buy the console on day one to take a wait and see approach. It doesn't make much of a difference whether you get these details today or the day before launch if you've already decided to buy it no matter what.
There are going to be important details about it that are going to get revealed to us by the early adopters instead of Nintendo themselves. That's pretty strange.
I'd be really surprised if Nintendo, a company so concerned with controlling the message that it doesn't even do press conferences at E3 anymore, would leave it to early adopters to reveal a lot of important details. I'm sure we'll get some more details in announcements or interviews, if not a full-blown video presentation.
"GameCube Virtual Console at launch" is starting to look a bit unlikely; however, if it is indeed happening, I can see Nintendo sitting on that news as one last "get excited about this fucking console" announcement just before launch. Based on some comments Reggie made a few weeks ago, it seems like Nintendo is aware that such an announcement would be a fairly big deal.