Lol, so many people trying to say otherwise, but It's a handheld that you can plug to your TV.
When you create a hardware so that it can be played without being plugged into anything, it becomes a handheld.
All the specs are designed so that it can be a proper handheld, and the software will have to use these specs as main references so that the games runs properly on the console when it's not plugged.
If tomorrow, the Vita was getting a TV dock and a wireless controller, would you call it a home console? Lol no.
The only important part in defining if it's a handheld or a homeconsole, is its position in the market, will it take the position of the WiiU? The 3DS? Both? That's the important question here, but we won't know until at least 2018.
It's important, and I think there lies the mistake for Nintendo when not defining it properly, the mistake is that if the console doesn't sell more than the 3DS, it will be seen as a failure for Nintendo.
Right now, and until at least 2018, Nintendo is just going to see what happens and act accordingly. Like they did for the DS in 2005.
