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Soundwave on 24 January 2017
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Mar1217 said:
Soundwave said:

The market will tell the story, but they've already kinda spoken on this. 

Nintendo can't even get their own fans to buy Nintendo consoles most of the time ... 80% of GBA owners and 80% of 3DS owners did not bother with the Nintendo console counterpart and they don't have another Wiimote type controller craze to fall back on, so Switch (basically the portable side taking over the console side) was the only real option Nintendo had left. 

They couldn't keep making consoles that only 15-20 million hardcore Nintendo fans would buy, they had to make a portable system and then just collapse what was left of their console division into that. 

Nintendo had no choice, if they had a large *reliable* console fanbase, they would have made another home console. They don't. So Switch is what you get. 

So we get a hybrid device that I will mostly use as a home console,fine. 

Which is fine. For some people, PSVita TV is also the only console they would need. 

For the *mass market* though this sure as hell is not going to be their home console of choice though. Especailly with virtually no price advantage. 

If you are going to use it as a home console only you're basically getting bent over and paying $300 for something that really is probably $150-$200 of hardware at best. You're paying for an LCD screen + battery that you'll rarely/never use. So there's that too. 

You need to use the portable features of this device to really get any proper value out of it, otherwise you're paying a pretty inflated price for a micro-console.