It's a crappy 3rd party accessory. Haven't all consoles suffered similar?

I mean, it kinda makes sense as a webcam for only being used with the Switch 2... from a 'minimum viable product' standpoint.

4 picture in picture windows of 640 x 480 on a 1920 x 1080 screen?

Eh, good enough, rofl.

I mean yeah, this is a joke, I also had a 640 x 480 webcam 20 years ago... but its very clear Nintendo has pivoted to the 'milk all the accumulated goodwill out of our customer base' phase of grand corporate strategy.

They've gone full Mr. Krabs.

On the bright side, the camera/Switch doesn't use a proprietary connector, so you can plug a lot of cameras into the thing, and it will generally work.

It's not like the DS days, where if you wanted to plug a microphone in in addition to your headphones, they had a special connector for the mic part.

I just read that this camera is used to animate avatars. I'm sure they won't be using tons of processing power to read facial expressions.

Are there going to be any games that actually make use of the camera as a camera?

If so, I just imagine people sending their dicks or memes over the camera.

640 by 480 is fine if you have a good enough sensor and lens, like broadcast NTSC video