Topic: If you found a Switch.

If I'm being honest its basically up for grabs for the first few people.
Assuming you're the first person to stumble upon it then the person shouldn't be too far away from it hopefully so you could find them and give the switch back to them.

Any other case they're probably long gone and someone else would've already taken the switch.
So I would just take it if I can't find the original owner soon enough.

Turn it in to local police, easy answer. Anything else would be unethical.

That last part is probably the outcome more often then the first one. Finding the owner will almost be next to impossible unless you can find their email on the Switch and contact them to turn over the Switch to them.

@jump
Karma-ception.

I'd try to find the owner. Post online where and when I found it, then ask people what's on it or other verifying questions, etc. After a while, if no one turned up. I'd do a factory reset on it and donate. I only have the two hands and a switch already. Another one, would be excessive.

I would leave it.
They would probably come back for it, because I can't think of a scenario where someone would forget their Switch lol. That's like forgetting your wallet or your phone, and that's something you just don't do.

I'd probably contact Nintendo to give them the device serial number as they may be able to reach out to the owner and facilitate its return.
I used to be tech support for phone companies so we'd pretty regularly be contacted and given a device IMEI registered with our network and we could get them back to the owners by a few different ways.
I'm not sure if Nintendo would facilitate such a service, as it's pretty resource heavy but it is certainly good PR from a company standpoint. I'd definitely pick this option over the police as them returning electrical goods to their owners is historically abysmal at best

Good news everyone! I found it. It was my own dumb*ss that misplaced it, and the one person was right it's just not something to leave behind, But it is humbling for everyone's positive answers to the question. Happy gaming everyone.

@HXLXIII
Glad you found your Switch.
Keep your thing safely.

@HXLXIII Thank goodness!

Good to hear can you give us some background to it's finding? Remember it's Karma if you do what is right positive things can happen not right away but takes time.