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Nuvendil on 13 December 2016
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mountaindewslave said:
invetedlotus123 said:

 

 

Why Nintendo fans has such a hard time to accept Nintendo Switch is a tablet? A dedicated tablet optimized for gaming, but the form factor is pretty much a tablet in and out. By accident i`m sure vivster meant that the only thing, hardware wise, that differentiate the NS from other tablers are the accessories. The difference between Nintendo Switch and the crop of android tablets that eventually are going to use the same chip is the software, in both OS and game-wise.

kind of semantics, is a PSP or Vita a tablet simply because its a screen with a few buttons?

its funny how until now that the main Nintendo console is leaning towards a mix of handheld and home gaming that everyone wants to paint it has "omg its just a tablet"

In terms of functionality, dedicated gaming, and the options (i.e. coming with a dock to connect it to a TV for main use) its nothing like a standard tablet. Again, many people will buy this device SIMPLY to play on their TV at home. Not sure if that really falls into pure 'tablet' territory as it practically is a TV streaming game device in some respect

 

and Nintendo will handle the OS on their own (although obviously probably taking from other architectures, Linux, whatever).

 

I also seriously doubt there will be any sort of mobile game section on the device, Nintendo is not looking at this as a tablet like some of you claim.

It is funny how the Switch gets lumped in with tablets for sharing a general form factor.  I mean, PS4 and Xbone share a basic form factor with PCs, especially gaming PCs.  No one calls them PCs.  Why?  Cause they feature customizations and design decisions that mean that they are not PCs and warrant their own subcategorization.  Same with Switch.

 

And yeah, there are zero apps that Nintendo wants on the Switch.  99.9999% of the iOS and Android market is either games that only work with cellphones in mind, time wasters no one plays on a dedicated device, or poor man's CoD/Need For Speed/Halo/etc.  None of which would have any impact in the dedicated console market.  No oje would care because why download the smartphone game timewasters to your console and why buy poor man's xyz when you could, you know, buy the real ones?