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Soundwave on 21 October 2016
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oniyide said:
Soundwave said:

It's kinda like when a porn producer puts a lot of actual effort into a story/set/props etc. and says they're making a "film" and not a porno. I mean yeah ok, it's a "movie", but when you got someone getingt railed every 15 minutes in between the story, people are going to walk out of it still thinking it's a porno, lol.

Switch is a portable form factor device. It's portable with its own battery. It has a mobile processor, not a home processor. It has an LCD touchscreen on it. 70% of Nintendo's own presentation showed it being used outside of the home. It has a kickstand built-in when it's used portable. The whole "gimmick" is it's meant to be used away from the home, it even has two break apart controllers so you always have an extra controller when you're away from home that can be used in a pinch. 

Most of the audience for this thing is going to be existing 3DS owners. It's not going to draw any significant user base from the current console ecosystem.

I dont think it needs to

It doesn't need to because it's a portable and as such will draw audience from the 3DS and whatever is left of the Vita base (which at least in Japan is still somewhat notable). 

And this isn't just a Nintendo specific thing, if Sony had opted to make "Sony Switch" with no Playstation 4 or MS did the same thing with a "Microsoft Switch" and no XBox One/Scorpio, I would say the same thing. They're getting out of the traditional console market. 

To be honest I think Nintendo is also happier this way, it just seems to me like they've not been comfortable or happy with consoles for like 15+ years now. Consoles are too big, too loud, can't be moved around easily enough ... well I mean this is like someone saying football doesn't have short bursts like tennis, it doesn't have 1-on-1 competetion like tennis, they prefer the feel of tennis ... well I mean have you ever considered maybe just playing tennis? lol. Why are you playing a sport when you don't really even seem to like it. You're not even good at football (consoles) really, you're much better at tennis (portables). 

I think that's kinda what's happened. Nintendo doesn't like online/hardware power/big TV graphics/power consumption of modern chips, or supporting modern TV resolutions, NS doesn't even have a new fangled controller even really ... I mean that is what console gaming is basically about, lol, everything they seem to like is centered in the portable market.