| RolStoppable said: Even if everyone accepted that you are correct on a technical level, you'd still be incorrect on the practical level, so your point is ultimately moot. You may claim that Nintendo has exited the home console market for this or that reason, but gamers use Switch like a home console and pay software prices that are equal to what's typical for home consoles. What you have to convincingly argue is that Nintendo has exited the home console market, because that's the original claim you have been challenged on. You have shifted towards semantics in order to get a win, but all you can win with your current line of argumentation doesn't help you one bit on the original point of contention, because you've strayed off too far and on a practical level Switch is treated like a home console, so the assertion that Nintendo has exited the home console market is laughable. I don't need to write a rebuttal for your technical posts, because the outcome of that argument won't change anything about the main point. I can cede that point to you without a fight because it's not worth the time when it doesn't change anything. The bigger questions that remain are, for one, your accusations that I disagree because I want to make more favorable comparisons; what are those comparisons? And two, you didn't address why anyone should be concerned about Switch's sales performance. |
There's no way to prove your hypothesis that the Switch would be treated the same way on a practical basis as if it was designed as a stationary unit either simply because there's no way to test out your conjecture when it's just another hypothetical scenario ...
You can't authenticate that the Switch's portability is just a secondary selling point to it's functionality ... (unless you had a way to look into an alternate reality)
Nintendo withdrew from the home console market the moment they solely didn't want to compete on the virtue of having a system without a portable form factor hence why they did not intended the Switch to be ONLY a home system. If Switch was going to be THAT compelling as a home system then why did they not make it wholly as such ? You fail to ask yourself this very basic question that does have a clear dividing line which is why you continually ignore the obvious to suit your arguments and BTW, there's more Switch owners who primarily prefer to use the system in a portable fashion so the Switch being usable as a "home" system doesn't help your argument one bit when there's more customers who don't want to do such ...
The short of it is you can't say that the Switch is primarily sold as a home console when there's more customers who bought it and intended to use it as solely a portable system rather solely as a home system thus putting your argument that the Switch is a home system on a practical basis in the trash bin ...
Even if there were some users who use it as primarily as a home system there's no way for you to quantitatively devalue the selling point Switch's form factor either if they make use either a few times or even just once ...
As for Switch's sales performance, it's doing pretty mediocre in comparison to the 3DS but I know you'll bring up the price excuse again when that's clearly Nintendo's job to show it's customers the value proposition so no reason to tread on the same path once more ...
