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Forums - Gaming Discussion - So Nintendo officially quit console gaming. Switch is a handheld system

Soundwave said:
bunchanumbers said:
I don't get how you guys can look at a tablet and not see a tablet. Its like you trained your eyes to not see whats in front of you. Ditch the controller nubs. Ditch the taco shell base. Just look at the base unit that is absolutely required. What do you see? A tablet.

All Nintendo did was make a tablet. Then tell you that its not a tablet.

lol, it's kinda of hilarious. I swear to some people if Nintendo made clothes they could say this:

Is a men's t-shirt and some people would say "yeah I guess it is, I mean it's just longer, but it's still a t-shirt that a man would wear". 

I wasn't going to return to this thread but you made me lol

A far more accurate analogy would be a jacket which comes with an attachable and detachable hood. And we're in here arguing whether it's a plain jacket or a hooded jacket. It's both/either depending on how you use it.

No one has said the NS is not a tablet, it's both a tablet and a home console. Function is literally how we determine what technology is, one of the NS primary functions is to sit in your living room, removed from your hands, no longer functional as a tablet or handheld, docked, restricted to a power supply, outputting to your TV for couch gaming experiences. Yes there are several devices which can do similar things which aren't referred to as hybrids and that's because they don't do that job well, aren't designed around it being a primary function and are not marketed with that function in mind. This is why many streaming boxes are not referred to as home consoles despite literally being home bound,  dedicated computing devices which allow to play games on your tv.

 



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superchunk said:
Turkish said:

What the hell are you even talking about?

"so much ignorance"

What ignorance? The things said in OP come straight out of the horse's mouth, do you know better than Nintendo?

"it is a gaming console"

Of course it is, when you play the semantics game anything that has something resembling a game is a gaming console, my old Tamagochi as well! When people say "console" it's clear what they mean by that, there's a clear distinction between consoles and handheld. The Switch is basically a handheld, you will never need to connect it to the dock to play games.

"no justification for negative reaction or pessimism"

There's no negative reaction, I'm not dooming or glooming Nintendo, I'm not even giving my opinion. Just stating the facts.

Horse's mouth? Nintendo stated it was a home console. Just because it has portability, doesn't mean its a "handheld". Additionally, when people push that it is a handheld, they do so with intent to make it appear as a low-tier device. Thus, negative reaction or pessimism.

nobody has said anything like that. You're projection is showing



KLXVER said:
I can play it on a TV with a regular controller. Its a console. It just happens to double as a handheld.

You can do that with an iphone/ipad, does that make it a console too?



It is near the end of the end....

Looks like it. Lame.



Still surprised how Nintendo was so silent to give out detail about something that basically bring nothing new to the table.



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Slarvax said:
The dock is actually a toaster, people.

I  complained that I was worried my toast might get burned with the new Nintendo toaster ,Nintendo said no way it not powerful enough to burn anything.



Research shows Video games  help make you smarter, so why am I an idiot

KLXVER said:
I can play it on a TV with a regular controller. Its a console. It just happens to double as a handheld.

It is a console but it is not a traditional home console. The Switch is a tablet. Plain and simple. Many tablets offer TV output and controllers. Does that make them a home console then? 



This reminds me of all those "Wii U isn't 8th gen!" threads. Come on guys...



Kowan said:
KLXVER said:
I can play it on a TV with a regular controller. Its a console. It just happens to double as a handheld.

It is a console but it is not a traditional home console. The Switch is a tablet. Plain and simple. Many tablets offer TV output and controllers. Does that make them a home console then? 

I have yet to spot any sign of a stylus on that trailer, or any sign of the users using a touch screen. Granted, there was no opportunity to see the lower edge of the Switch - a stylus could be tucked away there. But if it's not touch sensitive, it's not a tablet in the traditional sense of the word.

Neither is it a 'home console' in the traditional sense of the word, or a 'handheld' in the traditional sense of the word. It's a Switch. Plain and simple.



What if it's both?