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Teeqoz on 30 November 2017
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Wyrdness said:
Teeqoz said:

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.

I think you should read the posts again because I said it competes with PS4 as a hybrid no hybrid market was even mentioned that's a creation of your own there.

This is the image itself:

Nothing here shows the middle group being more portable focused all it says is that over 50% used it as both in other words its hybrid concept furhter backing the point that it's not seen as either home or portable but as intended a hybrid device that caters to varying gaming habits.

I'm not talking about the middle group. I'm saying that there are 30% using it primarily as a handheld, versus 20% using it primarily as a home console. 30% is 50% more than 20% (20*1.5=30, it is 10 percentage points more, but that isn't the same thing). I made no mention of the 50% group, because we don't have data on the split, other than the difference is smaller than a factor of 4. Hence talking about that group is pure guesswork.

Yes, it competes as a hybrid, because it is a hybrid, but like I said, ofcourse we can still make distinctions about which mode is used the most, and how that affects sales.