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Soundwave on 04 January 2017
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Pemalite said:
Soundwave said:

This isn't in competetion with the XBox One/PS4, not much more than the 3DS or Vita/Vita TV was. 

Nintendo is advertising it as a device that competes with Home consoles.
It has a dock to use it in a stationary position.
Ergo it can and should be compared to the Xbox One, Playstation 4 and PC.

The kind of hardware it has is irrellevent.
You can pick up a Voyo with a battery, mobile CPU, GPU, sans-screen and it's still a stationary device.

It's how Nintendo has portrayed the device that matters, as soon as they hooked it up to the TV via the Dock in it's reveal, it was competing for the same screen as Microsoft and Sony, ergo. It's competing with those platforms.

Is PS Vita TV a competitor to XB1/PS4?

I think you know this is bunk. 

Nintendo doesn't want to compete with XB1/PS4, it's plainly obvious. How much less similar to the PS4/XB1 could they have made this thing?

A $10 plastic dock and branding isn't going to change that. 

The main reason Nintendo wants to call it a console also likely had diddly squat to do with either Sony or MS. 

They want to be able to maintain $60 games, calling it a console at least gives them a pretense for doing that, they also want to avoid the whole "well I already have a tablet, I don't need a Nintendo tablet" conundrum by saying "no, you may have a tablet, but isn't a console".  Also they wanted to protect 3DS sales in the interim, which was a good call because the 3DS had a decent holiday season. There was no point in flushing those sales down the toilet for no good reason. 

There is no reason to buy a Switch for $250 over a $250 PS4 or XB1 if all you want is a home console, unless you are a hardcore Nintendo fanatic. And Nintendo doesn't care, they've ceded any illusion of direct competition, they know the portable aspect of the Switch is their saving grace.