Global Hardware 15 December 2018

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DonFerrari said:

Intrinsic said:

He obviously is reaching.

The NS is built from the ground up as a handheld. The NS will be the NS without a dock and nothing mre than a cable t connect it t a tv if you so choose. However if you bought only a dock it will be absolutely nothing but a paperweight without the NS. Yet he calls it a home console. Even his view as to why its a hybrid is centred around nintendo pooling its software divisions as opposed to actually looking at the hardware.

Its strange t me how anyone can not understand the concept f sub markets in the same industry. I dont even get why saying the NS is primarily a handheld and in a different market is a bad thing.

Same people that will deny PSP/PSVita was a hybrid because it only needed a cable to hook to TV or that it could play console games on the go with streaming... but Switch is a console because you need a piece of plastic with I/O to connect it to TV.

 

The Switch is a hybrid console because it is both portable and home console, not because a piece of plastic, but because it has two separate functions and changes the resolution and performance based on being docked or undocked.  It is not just sending a signal to the TV, but also stepping up or down the processing power to perform differently based on if it is being used as a weaker home console, or a very powerful handheld.  This makes it both and therefore it competes in the console space as well as portable.