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Trunkin on 05 April 2017
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Cerebralbore101 said:
nemo37 said:

The Switch's battery lasts between 3-6 hours, which is about the same as the 3DS and Vita. If you consider those systems a portable based on battery life then the Switch is also one (though from personal experience I would say you probably need a jacket pocket, because it will not fit in your pant pockets, so maybe slightly less portable...lol).

With 3-D mode off I've been able to get 8 hours of battery life out of my 3DS XL. That's a pretty big difference over the 3-6 hours that the Switch has.

http://bgr.com/2017/02/28/nintendo-switch-battery-life-comparison/

If you follow the link you can see that the Switch dies pretty quickly even when not playing games. So that's basically 3 hour battery life while playing games vs 4-8 hours for the 3DS.

I don't think the original 3DS lasted quite that long. I switched it for an extended battery, but I might put my original back in just to test.

Either way, I think that as long as the battery is able to last through an average play session that it can be considered a portable. It's not like some of those gaming laptops that can't even last 30 minutes. Now those are really pushing the idea of portability, lol.

pokoko said:
It's kind of amusing to see people get puffy over the use of the word "gimmick". It's like some kind of projection for an inferiority complex.

A gimmick is anything used in advertising and marketing to set a product apart and generate attention. Idiotic and useless features can be gimmicks. Innovative and meaningful features can be gimmicks.

Get over it. It's just a word.

On topic, I think a cheap, stand-alone home console with the same power as the Switch but without the portable features would sell very well. I know that I find such a product much more appealing than paying for portability I care nothing about.

It wouldn't surprise me if such a device materialized eventually, as with the 2DS.

Yes, it is just a word. Words are used to express ideas or concepts. While words themselves don't really change, the ideas they represent do depending on the context, or simply just over the passage of time. The word "gimmick" used on gaming forums has primarily meant something along the lines of, "a feature that adds no useful functionality to a system's gaming capabilities, and which exists for the sole purpose of marketing or giving a console a unique appearance on the surface." It is absolutely used almost exclusively as an insult, and this isn't anything new. It's been consistently used this way for the past 10 years.

It's also pretty clear from his later posts that the OP means exactly that with his use of the word, so it looks like everyone is on the same page except you...