Nintendo president essentially confirms Switch is a handheld

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Soundwave said:

Miyamotoo said:

 

I think hole point of Switch is to be "jack of all trades, but master of none" at price of a just home console. With good price, good marketing and good launch lineup, can be very attractive for both home console and handheld lovers, not to mention that will certainly be interesting for some casuals also.

Lets be honest the main buyers for this thing are going to be 3DS owners. This isn't going to compete with a PS4/XB1, with the revelation of no HDD today, it likely cannot even run a lot of the big AAA home console games as some of those games are the size of an entire 128GB SD Card. 

Actually, most AAA games land around the 60 gig mark.  And tens of gigs of that is unoptimized audio that is that size for literally no reason whatsoever other than publisher/develiper laziness.  99% of all AAA games could easily fit on the Switch card if it is 64 gigs in capacity which is entirely feasible.

As for whether it is a handheld or home console, it has features of both but I would say that integrated same-device local multiplayer is a very distinctively home console feature.  And of course to be a true handheld, the device is a bit on the large size.  Also, they ain't marketing this as a handheld any time soon.  Price will be way too high.