Nintendo president essentially confirms Switch is a handheld

[DonFerrari]

GoOnKid said:

DonFerrari said:

But focused on portability, while putting almost no time on docked but then talk how it's first a home console (even when they assume the dock have very little use) so their message is crossed on they trying to hide that it's more of a HH than a console and it makes sense since they have a 60M HH market versus 10M console market.

This would make NO sense because they would kill their winning product and replace it with smething else while remaining it's underperforming console.

I assume you would accept it as a hybrid if the trailer showed the Switch half the time in the dock and half the tme outside. Is that right? But the trailer showed it in the dock, and that's okay. What else should they have shown 1 more minute? More people playing it at home? HOw would that make a difference? The trailer rather showed a) it's use as a home console, b) that you can take it out and play wherever you want, and c) that the controllers are detachable. C mostly makes sense when it's outside of the dock. So the trailer is completely fine.

Every time a generation change you start from 0 sales. So I don't know what you are trying to imply. What I'm saying is that they are focusing more on the HH aspect of the machine because there is were they have better chances.

I would accept it as hybrid if the dock had any relevant function. But it only does anything, so for me it's just a HH that you hook to your television, and the worse part is that you lose the screen when docked while they could just have it transmit the data to the TV and it working as mirror screen. The most we can guess from the dock is that it may cool and give more energy so the chip would increase it's perfomance, still, everything needed for it to work are really inside the HH part.

The point about the trailer is that it really showed it working as HH even if their PR says otherwise (perhaps showing more it's capabilities as home console would help... but when the games seemed just equal on both stances it doesn't help nintendo claim).

Miyamotoo said:

DonFerrari said:

WiiU is still selling as well, just poorly... and No one understood yet how it's more of a home console-type that you take on the go instead of a handheld that you connect to TV.

Wii U is dead for them, they almost didn't mention at all, only Zelda left for Wii U, but 3DS is still selling and still has games, that's why they still mention 3DS and make comparison to Switch.

Yes, that is why they pretend this isn't 3DS successor so they can still sell hw.