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SKMBlake said:
Intrinsic said:

. But I am not stupid. I know what a home console is and what makes something a home console. I have almost 30yrs of consoles to look it if I need to be reminded. I also know what a handheld is and what makes it a handheld, again.... I have 30+ yrs worth f hardware to know what that is. So i am sorry, but when nintendo takes what by design, form and function is a handheld and ships it with a dock that lets you connect it to your tv....... that doesn't suddenly make it a home console for me. Regardless of whatever kinda PR BS nintendo spews.

If I am wrong? fine... if this somehow makes me silly in your book? thats fine too. But as i said.... I have seen a lot f handhelds, and the NS is looks and acts more like a handheld than anything else... so idk......

More interestingly though,  try something. Type "all handheld consoles" on google and see what pops up. Then type "all home consoles"..........

Well, if you go by "it's not what a console is used to look like, it's more like a handheld because I've seen both in 30 years and that's dictates me how I see what is a console and what is a handheld", I can make non-sense arguments to answer that.

What cell-phones looked like for almost 20 years:

What they do now:

And what they're will in the future:

Does it look like a phone to you ? But it is.

Yes it does.... physical buttons were just replaced with soft buttons in a screen. But the form factor is the same. Fits in your pocket. Has a battery. Makes calls.

But since you have so many pictures on tap.... how about yu show us pictures of all handhelds and put the NS next t them. :)

But lts not derail this thread any further I have made my points... you have made yours, we dont have to agree.



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DonFerrari said:
Shiken said:

The Switch is a hybrid console because it is both portable and home console, not because a piece of plastic, but because it has two separate functions and changes the resolution and performance based on being docked or undocked.  It is not just sending a signal to the TV, but also stepping up or down the processing power to perform differently based on if it is being used as a weaker home console, or a very powerful handheld.  This makes it both and therefore it competes in the console space as well as portable.

The dock provides energy and cooling. It doesn't grant any special feature to Switch. If someone hacked his switch to run full performance without the dock would then it become the desktop console even holding in the hand? Also Nintendo is selling it without dock in Japan.

And you fall in the same trap of OTBWY of confusing direct and indirect competitors.

If PS4 wasn't in the market X1 would sell much more and vice-versa (you having both is irrelevant). If Switch didn't launch neither PS4 nor X1 would have sold much more.

The dock does not provide any more power than just the AC adapter itself.  It also does not provide cooling as the fans and everything that does the work is in the Switch itself.  The only thing the dock does is send a signal to trigger console mode in the Switch.

 

You basically prove my point.  The fact the the dock does nothing special is exactly why it is classified as both.  The console and portable functions are native to the device itself and in theory, yes you could hack it to output docked level performance in handheld (albiet at higher battery consumption).

 

The fact that you have to hack it however is where your argument falls flat.  It was not designed to operate that way and you are altering its very form factor to make it something else.



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Intrinsic said:

Those are really broad strokes you are taking.

By your logic every gamer that owns a phone (which can play fortnite or pubg) shouldn't also need to buy a console. Unless choice of controller input is genre for you. But how will you explain the PS4 going onto have its best year on the market in the same year the NS launched and outselling the NS the following year too all the while the sales of the XB1 has remain unchanged if all three are in direct competition? Do you feel if the NS didnt exist last year or this year sales of both the PS4/XB1 will be up by around like say 7M each in each of those years?

You want to narrow it down t as long as its playing games its the same....... but no matter how you spin it its just not. And reasoning like that makes it impossible to debate with you. Which is aso why you dismissed the car analogy. If I were talking like you I could just say that all cars serve to get you from point A to point B.

Different strokes for different folks.

You keep mentioned I am falling short on knowledge yet both of you keep coming back with the same bad analogies. Phones are not primarily gaming devices. They are communication devices. I will explain why the PS4 did well while the Switch launched. Momentum. It had by then a good library that could not be ignored and it had good output that year. But I can assure you that choices were made to buy a Switch over a PS4 that year, even though Sony right before the Switch launch dropped the price of the PS4. Either way, it has to do with software. You are again, confusing yourself in the thinking that hardware is the primary motive here. It's software, and that is also the primary source of making money for these companies.

The car analogy, you should have dropped it but I will tackle it further on because you keep insisting on it.  

Intrinsic said: 

No one said consoles didn't compete. We are saying there is something called direct competitors and indirect competitors. And this is the concept that seems hard for you to grasp. 

PS4/XB1? Direct competitors. PS4/NS? Indirect competitors.

In the first case if you have one you almost nearly will never need the other. This is because their form factor is identical, their function and services are identical and the bulk of their library is identical. In the second case, one offers things that are just impossible on the other. So both can coexist and one ding well wouldn't mean the other will suffer.

There is no indirect competition. It is direct. These are not movies and books competing. It's one single source of entertainment, video games. The Xbox One and PS4 compete, just as the Switch, with software. In this case exclusive content or perhaps superior multiplat offerings.

Form factor is irrelevant. The primary function is the ability to play. Does the Switch do that, yes. Function and services, not completely, but there is an offering of online, as well as some media functionality (albeit slowly being added). The offerings are largely the same except for some bigger releases. But I don't think multiplats are primary reason for wanting a console, mostly exclusive content is. 

Intrinsic said: 

Price, while important isn't the drivin force when it comes to cars. Its practicality. And by practicality we mean how well does the car do what you want it to do? And when you see it for what it is you then realize that that same driving force (practicality) applies to everything. Because practicality is subjective. Eg, a mother of 3 kids will NOT buy a lamborghini even if its costs $500 because its a two seater and she needs something that can sit all her children.You are showing how limited your understanding of these things are.

A gamer will NOT buy a PS4 if he doesnt have a TV and does most of his gaming on the go. And if he does have a TV and  PS4 he will still buy a NS because it lets him play games on the go. But that gamer will not buy an XB1 if he has a PS4 because its practically the same thin and doesn't  offer anything he isn already getting

See how that works?

Maybe a lambo wasn't the right choice, but as you actually said before, the primary reason to buy a car is getting from point a to point b. All cars have this a primary focus. As for choices for buying a car, I didn't say it was the only choice, but it is the biggest factor of why someone buys a car. Price. If I use a different example, a hummer can move a big family too but it is out of the price range of many consumers. But still, it has nothing to do with choices of what games people want to play. Practicality is a secondary factor in cars the same way a preference of colour is. This however is different with games and cosnoles cause they all have basically the same price range. So it falls solely on the preference. The two things are separate.

Intrinsic said: 

Hmmmmmmm.......

We aren't sheep here. And we can at the very least apply some common sense.

Sony called the PS3 a PC. And while it could be used as a PC, it was not a PC. It was a game console. And don't take my word for it, just look at the agencies that denied sony registering it as a PC cause they saw through that sony were just attempting to qualify for a lower tax bracket.

And MS championed media hub and 1B in sales because the XB1 had a vide input and the XB1 could run windows apps. But yet the XB1 lived and died on its viability as a game console regardless of how or what MS described it.

Nintendo can call the NS a home console. But I am not stupid. I know what a home console is and what makes something a home console. I have almost 30yrs of consoles to look it if I need to be reminded. I also know what a handheld is and what makes it a handheld, again.... I have 30+ yrs worth f hardware to know what that is. So i am sorry, but when nintendo takes what by design, form and function is a handheld and ships it with a dock that lets you connect it to your tv....... that doesn't suddenly make it a home console for me. Regardless of whatever kinda PR BS nintendo spews.

If I am wrong? fine... if this somehow makes me silly in your book? thats fine too. But as i said.... I have seen a lot f handhelds, and the NS is looks and acts more like a handheld than anything else... so idk......

More interestingly though,  try something. Type "all handheld consoles" on google and see what pops up. Then type "all home consoles"..........

I don't get why you want to keep harping on this subject. If you insist on speaking against what Nintendo thinks their own product is, then it is pointless for me to argue against you. I will not engage someone who has his own reality.

Some small tidbits. The PS3 being a PC and Xbox being a media hub has nothing to do with competing with the Wii which comes down to the same thing. Playing video games. Secondary features have nothing to do with it, although you could say it is a selling factor. My point here is is that games are the driving force.

Also, using googles search algorithm as a source for fact is not that smart.



DonFerrari said:
Shiken said:

The Switch is a hybrid console because it is both portable and home console, not because a piece of plastic, but because it has two separate functions and changes the resolution and performance based on being docked or undocked.  It is not just sending a signal to the TV, but also stepping up or down the processing power to perform differently based on if it is being used as a weaker home console, or a very powerful handheld.  This makes it both and therefore it competes in the console space as well as portable.

The dock provides energy and cooling. It doesn't grant any special feature to Switch. If someone hacked his switch to run full performance without the dock would then it become the desktop console even holding in the hand? Also Nintendo is selling it without dock in Japan.

And you fall in the same trap of OTBWY of confusing direct and indirect competitors.

If PS4 wasn't in the market X1 would sell much more and vice-versa (you having both is irrelevant). If Switch didn't launch neither PS4 nor X1 would have sold much more.

You mean the Switch that is specifically named "Switch 2nd Unit Set" and is marketed specifically to households that already own a Switch and therefore already have the dock?  The Switch 2nd Unit Set doesn't even come with a charger for this reason.  The buyer it is marketed towards is specifically assumed to already have a dock in their home.  The 2nd unit set is the cheap option to get a 2nd Switch into the consumer's home.



Switch games cost 60$ and the console itself is 300$.

I guess leave it to Nintendo to able to market and sell a handheld at such a price if any other other company tried it. They would’ve flopped miserably.



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Intrinsic said:
OTBWY said:


A gamer has 24 hours a day, some of which he or she spends a certain set of hours on playing games. They have two hands, made to hold one controller to play one game. When a gamer chooses to buy a PS4 game over a Switch game in the store, that is choosing one over the other. Factors can be for example a certain preference in genre. You see. That way they are competing for that persons attention. Do I need to explain consumer markets further?

Those are really broad strokes you are taking.

By your logic every gamer that owns a phone (which can play fortnite or pubg) shouldn't also need to buy a console. Unless choice of controller input is genre for you. But how will you explain the PS4 going onto have its best year on the market in the same year the NS launched and outselling the NS the following year too all the while the sales of the XB1 has remain unchanged if all three are in direct competition? Do you feel if the NS didnt exist last year or this year sales of both the PS4/XB1 will be up by around like say 7M each in each of those years?

You want to narrow it down t as long as its playing games its the same....... but no matter how you spin it its just not. And reasoning like that makes it impossible to debate with you. Which is aso why you dismissed the car analogy. If I were talking like you I could just say that all cars serve to get you from point A to point B.

 

If they sell versions of the same games, which they do, they are in direct competition.  If someone has to choose between Nintendo games with limited multiplats or MS/PS games with more multiplats, they are in direct competition if they would only ever use the system docked (there are those that do).  If it is a gaming device that is made for playing games, they are in direct competition.  There is no middle ground.

 

Phones are phones that can play games and everyone has them.  Just because they have Fortnite and PUBG does not make it a direct competitor to gaming devices, because people do not buy phones for games.  It is a sode feature.  A PS4, X1, or Switch however WAS made to play games...and therefore directly compete with eachother regardless of if Switch has a portable feature or not.

OTBWY said: 



Secondly, and this is important. If consoles didn't compete, there would be very little reason to release a new console every year or so. The SNES for example was never intended in the first place, since Nintendo thought the NES would go on way longer. However, due to the Megadrive being released (which was made to compete directly with the NES, not the SNES - at first) they had to make a new console in order to compete. This hasn't changed, although, Nintendo has chosen style of play over raw graphical power.

No one said consoles didn't compete. We are saying there is something called direct competitors and indirect competitors. And this is the concept that seems hard for you to grasp. 

PS4/XB1? Direct competitors. PS4/NS? Indirect competitors.

In the first case if you have one you almost nearly will never need the other. This is because their form factor is identical, their function and services are identical and the bulk of their library is identical. In the second case, one offers things that are just impossible on the other. So both can coexist and one ding well wouldn't mean the other will suffer.

I think you have your definitions of direct and indirect competition mixed up, or at the very least twisted.  They were all made for playing games, therefore they directly compete.  I need my X1 for Halo and my PS4 for God of War.  They co exist under the same roof.  Just because the Switch offers something the other two cannot does not mean it is not a direct competitor.  It means that they have a competitive edge in the sense that people will most likely buy it alongside the other two.  Again sales numbers mean both the PS4 and Switch are doing well, not that they are not directly competing for my time.  Otherwise Sony would profit from my Valkeria Chronicles 4 purchase on Switch rather than PS4.

OTBWY said: 

Don't bring in cars please, it's nonsense. Most choices made by consumers buying specific cars are because of price. The differences in prices aren't anywhere near in the console market. If lambos were all as cheap a volkwagens, everyone would buy one.

You are showing how limited your understanding of these things are.

Price, while important isn't the drivin force when it comes to cars. Its practicality. And by practicality we mean how well does the car do what you want it to do? And when you see it for what it is you then realize that that same driving force (practicality) applies to everything. Because practicality is subjective. Eg, a mother of 3 kids will NOT buy a lamborghini even if its costs $500 because its a two seater and she needs something that can sit all her children.

A gamer will NOT buy a PS4 if he doesnt have a TV and does most of his gaming on the go. And if he does have a TV and  PS4 he will still buy a NS because it lets him play games on the go. But that gamer will not buy an XB1 if he has a PS4 because its practically the same thin and doesn't  offer anything he isn already getting

See how that works?

 

Except you leave out the guy that just buys the Switch so he can game on the go or at home under one save file or the need to double dip.

OTBWY said: 

 

"It doesn matter what nintendo calls it or says it is "

And there you have it. How can anyone argue with this fake news. lol. Also, the PS3 was used for setting up multiple supercomputers and the Xbox was always a media hub. Where is the lie in this exactly?

On the last part, thank you for explaining what you think a home console should be. You of course have that authority to decide what a home console is over the manufacturers themselves. It's almost like the manufacturers don't move the concept of what a home console forward because some guy has an arbitrary idea of what a home console should be. So silly.


Hmmmmmmm.......

We aren't sheep here. And we can at the very least apply some common sense.

Sony called the PS3 a PC. And while it could be used as a PC, it was not a PC. It was a game console. And don't take my word for it, just look at the agencies that denied sony registering it as a PC cause they saw through that sony were just attempting to qualify for a lower tax bracket.

And MS championed media hub and 1B in sales because the XB1 had a vide input and the XB1 could run windows apps. But yet the XB1 lived and died on its viability as a game console regardless of how or what MS described it.

Nintendo can call the NS a home console. But I am not stupid. I know what a home console is and what makes something a home console. I have almost 30yrs of console history to look at if I need to be reminded. I also know what a handheld is and what makes it a handheld, again.... I have 30+ yrs worth of hardware to know what that is. So i am sorry, but when nintendo takes what by design, form and function is a handheld and ships it with a dock that lets you connect it to your tv....... that doesn't suddenly make it a home console for me. Regardless of whatever kinda PR BS nintendo spews. But now if we called it a hybrid... then no argument there.

If I am wrong? fine... if this somehow makes me silly in your book? thats fine too. But as i said.... I have seen a lot f handhelds, and the NS is looks and acts more like a handheld than anything else... so idk......

 

Except the Switch functions differently when in docked mode, and therefore is acting as a console.  The actual processing of the software is altered by what mode it is in.  There are people that play exclusively docked.  So when the Switch is docked, it is a home console.

More interestingly though,  try something. Type "all handheld consoles" on google and see what pops up. Then type "all home consoles"..........

 

Last I will say on this matter Thread has been derailed enough.

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Could you imagine how the switch will sell when it finally drop to handheld prices?

I’m shivering just thinking about that.

Not just hardware but software as well. I wonder how much legs they could get when they finally permanently cut their main titles to 40$. I can see BOTW topping 30 million copies.



Shiken said:

Oh boy...where to start...

 

To those saying the Switch is not in competition with PS4 and X1, you are out of your minds.  In many instances they run the same games from 3rd parties.  If someone wants higher performance, they get for PS4 or X1.  If the ability to seamlessly swap between portable and home console play without losing any progression, only the Switch can do that.  People will decide on getting one version over the other based on their needs, meaning that those versions are competing with eachother on a consumer to consumer basis.

 

Stating that the Switch and PS4 cannot both have gangbuster numbers and remain competitive with eachother just makes no sense at all.  I have a PS4 and an X1...so by that logic they are not competitors either?  Two competitors can both be hugely successful.  The fact that the PS4 is still successful while also competing with the hugely successful Switch just means that both consoles are desired for one reason or another.  Just because many buy both does not mean they are not competitive with eachother.

 

 

 

X1 and Ps4 are direct competitors, PC is an indirect competitor to X1 and PS4 as they get similiar games. Nintendo switch is a supplement console for PS4 and Xbox1 owners and is the reason why I believe it's selling over expetations, It's simply Ps4 and X1 owners buying the switch as it's an excellent bonus console and you get access to nintendo first party titles.

When Nintendo switch gets third-party support (like red dead 2, Fifa 19 and Call of duty releases the same day) then Nintendo switch becomes a indirect competitor.

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Switch is a hybrid so therefore competes with PS4 and X1 as well as any portable gaming device anyone telling themselves otherwise is fooling themselves, it can be used as a home console and as a portable.



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