Let me ask you. Lets say you saw Switch. No controller nubs. No dock. Switch just laying on a table. And next to it was a ipad, and a samsung tablet. And along with those are a tablet from every other tablet maker. Would you be able to tell the difference? You might. But the average consumer is going to see it, and see just another tablet.

And I bet that the table used to hold all those tablets would be incredibly huge. Switch is now just one of thousands of other tablets out there. Nintendo chose this. They decided that by running away from MS and Sony and by going with a tablet, that they are now in competition with thousands of other devices. And they are late to the game with add ons that average consumers hate.

Think about it. A parent would just as easily hand their kid a ipad mini. And now they can say 'Look! It even has Mario on it.'

That's like saying you have two plastic plates. One that's white, and one with a Disney logo on it.

People know Nintendo, it's not some bogus unknown brand. People see an ipod, they know it's made by apple.

They'll see a switch, they'll know it's made by Nintendo.

This is how arguing should be done. One person brings up a good point and then the next person brings a better point. Well done to both of you.

But it's not a tablet! :<(

The most important thing is that it is something people want to buy and it has a good selection of games. It doesn't need to be able to do everything an iphone or ipad does otherwise it would be branded as a tablet. That's not what Nintendo is aiming with it nor is it what they should be.

They don't have the manpower or the expertise to create an OS that can compete with the iOS or Android so it's impossible to ask them to make a competing product.

Let me ask you. Lets say you saw Switch. No controller nubs. No dock. Switch just laying on a table. And next to it was a ipad, and a samsung tablet. And along with those are a tablet from every other tablet maker. Would you be able to tell the difference? You might. But the average consumer is going to see it, and see just another tablet.

And I bet that the table used to hold all those tablets would be incredibly huge. Switch is now just one of thousands of other tablets out there. Nintendo chose this. They decided that by running away from MS and Sony and by going with a tablet, that they are now in competition with thousands of other devices. And they are late to the game with add ons that average consumers hate.

Think about it. A parent would just as easily hand their kid a ipad mini. And now they can say 'Look! It even has Mario on it.'

I think an average consumer knows the name Nintendo and knows what they do. This is pretty safe to say. Therefore, an average consumer will see it and think about how to play Nintendo games on it instead of using it like a tablet.

EDIT: The situation you described will never appear, because you will never see the switch just lying around without the controllers next to a bunch of other tablets, so confusing it as a standard tablet is not going to happen. Pyro as Bill above me is right: please define a home console. And OP should do that, too.

Wait so I have to define what you've been playing your whole lives? Haven't you ever thought about this?

Since it's pretty obvious that this is a home console and you constantly call it a handheld, yeah, you have to define what a home console is.