Nintendo president essentially confirms Switch is a handheld

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Landguy said:

spemanig said:

Mad penmanship, yo! And bribery.

I'm being on my best behavior lol. The only fact is that Nintendo already said what it is. A home gaming device. Nintendo didn't say it was a third pillar. They said it was a home gaming device. If you're disappointed that you're not being forced to keep it at home, then I'm sorry you feel that way. If you're disappointed that this is what Nintendo chose to replace the Wii U with, then I'm sorry that this is the product that disappointed you. But this product wasn't made to replace the 3DS. It was made to redefine gaming platforms. Making a home console portable does that.

What Nintendo said in their PR is that it is a home console.  Yet, when speaking to investors they clearly speak to it as a portable.  That should mean to most people that they classify it as a portable, yet hope to grab some of the home console arena by clever marketing and the stand/charger setup.

His response was to concerns by investors (not the brightest bunch) that consumers would confuse the Switch with the 3DS.  That concern is the context of his statement, not the classification of the device, which he continuously frames as being more in the console space than the handheld space with bleed over into the latter.  Also, see my posts for further elaboration on how ai view classification based on design principles, not form factor.