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Untamoi on 22 October 2016
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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.

You seem to think that Mobile processors and home processors have a huge difference but there is none. You can easily create a tablet with exactly same components as a home console and vice versa. The only difference between home and mobile components is that home components (usually) draw more power. Mobile versions are mostly just underclocked versions of the same components as used in home devices. And a lot of components are meant to be used in both mobile and home devices and there are no separate versions.

Heck, many small desktop computers use same components as notebooks and tablets. For example, I have seen many desktop PC's which has Nvidia 960M instead of Nvidia 960, although M stands for mobile. Even common desktop PC's, notebooks and tablets have mostly same components. And some small parts are even used in both desktop PC and cellphones.

And whether Switch is handheld or home console doesn't really matter. It is a gaming console and meaningless semantics don't matter at all. Most people just want to play good games. Console which doesn't have good games is a bad console and console which has good games is a good console. Whether console is a handheld, tablet or home console doesn't matter. Heck, even specs don't matter at all if you have no good games. The only thing which is important are games.