Nintendo president essentially confirms Switch is a handheld

[DonFerrari]

SpokenTruth said:

Landguy said:

THere have been a few threads about Nintendo's announcement about selling 2 million Switchs in March.

The real bit of info is that Nintendo itself believes that it is comparable to the 3ds, not the WiiU.  

So in reference to sales -

Nintendo CEO said he is confident that "consumers would understand that [the Switch] would be different from 3DS." That said, Nintendo will continue to produce and support the 3DS for the time being rather than immediately letting the Switch serve as a replacement, Kimishima said.

 

I think the debate about console or handheld has been decided...

 

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/10/nintendo-pins-financial-hopes-on-selling-2-million-switch-consoles-at-launch/

This and your thread title don't concur with each other.

Being different than 3DS, well it's, it have dock (even 3DS was different to DS or GB, and they all were still HH).

It won't immediately be a replacement, but from the wording it will replace it.

So how they don't concur?