Effectively you're probably right, it's unlikely looking at it today that a lot of people but the really core Nintendo fans (the ones that bought a Wii U) would use this as their primary home console.
It's a portable system first IMO, Nintendo is trying their hardest to market it the other way because they want to sell a few more 3DS systems for another year, especially since 3DS has DQXI coming and the sysem is fairly expensive to start with so trying to position it more as a home device initially makes more sense from a pricing POV.
Nintendo lost the home console market a long time ago, this is just portable taking over their hardware business, which makes sense. 85% of Nintendo buyers last gen didn't want a Nintendo console. Same goes for the GCN-GBA era. Wii era is the only outlier because a controller craze that's impossible to repeat so it doesn't really do Nintendo a whole lot of good in 2017.
