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Teeqoz on 30 November 2017
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Wyrdness said:
Zekkyou said:

I'm not arguing about what the Switch is, i'm just making observations about where i think it currently sits in the market. Those observations have at no point lead me to claim it's 'competing as only one type of hardware' though. In-fact the post you're replying to is largely focused on highlighting the absence of that point, and the related reasons.

As for usage, Nintendo don't show an even distribution. They show about half of people use it for both, 19% primarily as a home console, and just over 30% primarily as a home console (50%+ more). In the absence of more specific details from Nintendo, that implies a handheld bias. The effect of that is up for debate, and I've expressed my opinion on it.

Your observation is pushing the notion that it's competing more as a portable vs home consoles which is untrue it's competing fully as a Hybrid that's where it sits in the market that's what my post is highlighting to you.

No you just assume that 50% is more geared towards handheld when in actual fact the data tells us flat out it's being used as a hybrid device like intended with people using it according to their gaming habits, using it in portable mode doesn't really do that much for your point either because many households have shared TVs so undocked mode comes into play then as well.

He misquoted the data. Nintendo's statistics showed that 30% of people spend 80% or more of the time in undocked mode, while 20% spent 80% or more in docked mode. The remaining 50% had smaller differences than a factor of 4, and were clumped together. But that still implies that there are 50% more people that use it primarily as a handheld, than there are people that use it primarily as a home console.

To claim that the part of the market it competes with is only the "hybrid" market is silly. Does it not compete with the PS4 because the PS4 isn't a hybrid? Of course not. The Switch and the PS4 compete... In the same way, you can make observations like how (according to Nintendo's own stats), users use it more as a handheld than a home console.