So Nintendo officially quit console gaming. Switch is a handheld system

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bunchanumbers said:

padib said:

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 can see NS getting some sales from the idea that it's a tablet and it might becom a "parent trap" for children who wants a tablet, however that would require NS to be very cheap. If Nintendo wants to sell an ARM tablet that mirrors to TV charging console value, it's gonna be hard to hit the blue ocean.