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Barkley on 10 July 2019
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potato_hamster said:
Barkley said:

Yeah... no.

99.9% of Switch games work in handheld mode already, there's not going to be any change in games development.

"The whole "hybrid console" was nothing more than a marketing ploy for the get-go." - You can play the Switch on a TV, you can play 4 player splitscreen, it can be used as a home console.

It is a hybrid console, it is not a "marketing ploy"

smfh

By your logic the PSP Go was a hybrid console, the only difference being that the dock that allowed you to play on a tv with separate controllers was an optional accessory. And if that's a stopping point for you, you also can't play 4 player split screen without buying optional accessories on your Switch.

Just watch. By the time the last Switch is sold, most Nintendo Switches sold will not be able to be docked to a TV, and will not be able to be used as a home console in any way. That doesn't sound like a very "hybrid" console to me even if you're as generous with the idea of a "hybrid console" as you are.

"generous with the idea of a hybrid console". Please tell me what makes the Switch not a hybrid console, what would it need to have to be a hybrid console?

Were any games for the PSP Go designed with TV play in mind? Were many games on the PSP Go playable in splitscreen? Did any games on the PSP Go gain graphical enhancements when played on a TV? Did the PSP Go come bundled with wireless controllers that could be used on a TV? These are the reasons Switch is better described as a hybrid than PSP Go.

"Just watch. By the time the last Switch is sold, most Nintendo Switches sold will not be able to be docked to a TV" - Yeah sure lol.

"Nintendo Senior Vice President for Sales and Marketing Doug Bowser (yes, really) said the play time split between docked and undocked play on the Switch is "about even—about 50 percent in the dock and 50 percent away from the dock." The latter time chunk includes both tabletop play and fully handheld play".