I will buy it as a portable. PS4 as home console & Switch as handheld, I think it will be a great combo.

Wait until we see how it does in the Amazon thread first ...

When the Switch was first unveiled, the very first thing they showed was a guy sitting on his couch, playing his Switch on his television. That's certainly an odd way to kick off a new handheld gaming system...

It's a tabletop tablet that can connect to PC monitors therefore it's a laptop.

First, reason is not dictated by a majority vote.

It's obviously a home console. It has a detach mode wich makes it weaker, for wich games won't work at their best but allows you to take it with you for a couple of hours. It's still a home console at it's core.

I have said before that if you consider this a portable, then PS4 with Vita remote play makes the PS4 a portable console, because its equally a weaker mode of a home console.

So, no, it isn't a portable console, it's a home console with a secondary feature. It does not change it's main function.

I'd say it's mostly a handheld.

I'll be using it almost exclusively as a home console. But hardware-wise it's certainly tailored to being a Handheld, which is why it's a little disappointing for me.

It's been held back, because it had to be portable. But it's both regardless.

I can also understand hw some can refer to it as both. cause it ata the very least comes with everything in the box to be used as both. But calling it a home console also makes no sense to me. To me, being a full self contained unit makes it a portable. But apparently that line of thinking makes no sense to many.

As it stand, I think the NS is a console with a dock accessory that allows you plug to the TV. The dock has zero internal hardware that improves or changes the performance. Not even an ethernet port. The dock just allows you to plug in power and output video at the same time. The higher performance the system has when docked is more to do with it drawing power from a wall than anything. 

I don't think anyone has a problem with it being a handheld, or even with it being a console. This really is just about what ppl think it is. And why, I just wanted to know how we now define what is a handheld or a portable. I mean the PS4 has remote play, you can be overseas and as long as you have an internet connection and a laptop you can play your PS4. Does that make it a portable? 

The issue there is that the PS4 remains at your home. The vita or PC or whatever device you are using for remote play CANNOT work without the PS4. And said PS4 stays tehered to a wall in your house.

Everything that makes the switch the switch, can fit into your pocket. Everything. It doesn't need the joycon grip. It doesn't need the dock. Without all the extra things that makes it a "home console" to some here it will still work perfectly.

I really can't believe how we are here debating on what makes something a portable and what makes it a home console. 

Ok, is a laptop a portable PC or a desktop PC? You can plu a laptop to a TV too right? The difference betwen the two is that one can only exist and function when tethered to at least two points (wall for power and display) and the other doesn't need any of that. thats what makes it a portable.

I mean I've got a laptop that I have NEVER taken out of my house for the last year. It practically stays in one place. I use it as a desktop pretty much. But that doesn't change that its really a portable PC.

it does not lack any defining home console features, and it comes with everything it needs to be used as a home console. The majority of owners will probably use it partially as a home consoles if not mostly as a home console. And it is marketed as a home console. For it not to be a home console you will have to tell me a home console feature it doesn't have, the lack of high power consumption is not a feature.

If there is a gaming tablet that comes bundled with a controller and an HDMI cable, I will gladly consider that a home console as well.

The Switch is also a handheld, since it has all the features of a handheld, and will probably be used a lot as a handheld. And the portability is also part of the marketing. You could argue it isn't a handheld, because it doesn't fit in the pocket, but even the New 3DS xl, the Vita or the original gameboy will be difficult to fit in a pocket.

So it is both. Call it what you like. It shouldn't matter to you what it's called though. The system can do what it can do despite the label you give it. Nintendo calls it a home console first a portable sencond. Hence Nintendo hasn't left the home console market just because you call it a handheld. If Nintendo makes a console branded for the home console market - then Nintendo is part of the home console market.