As you might recall, Nintendo's beloved and iconic president Satoru Iwata died from complications of cancer almost two years ago. He was the one who started the development of the upcoming Switch, but until now, we've never known how much input he actually had on it.
In an interview with Time, Shigeru Miyamoto (creator of Mario, Donkey Kong, Zelda, and so on) shed some light on this and explained what Iwata broght to the Switch, when answering a question about things that reflects Satoru Iwata's involvement:
"I mentioned that Mr. Iwata, Mr. Takeda and myself provided feedback and made decisions, but ultimately Mr. Iwata was the head of development, so he put a lot of thought and time into Switch," he explained. "I think that the idea of Nintendo Switch being a device you can take out and anywhere, and the idea of it being a system that really allows networking and communicating with people, I think that's something Mr. Iwata put a lot of emphasis on."
"Because Mr. Iwata was tech-savvy, a lot of our discussion involved trying to figure out how to make the technical things like network capabilities or servers or whatever fun. For example, think about when we added the ability to use a browser on the DS. As time goes on, all of these services become more and more advanced, and so we need to think about "How do we incorporate mobile devices or new browser features that come up?" That's something Mr. Iwata and I discussed a lot, really trying to decide what to do and what not to do in our hardware."
Unfortunately, Iwata will never get to see the console he started developing actually launch, but judging from these words from Shigeru Miyamoto, he would likely be very happy with the result.