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Mandalore76 on 08 January 2019
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DonFerrari said:
Shiken said:

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.

The dock provides energy and cooling. It doesn't grant any special feature to Switch. If someone hacked his switch to run full performance without the dock would then it become the desktop console even holding in the hand? Also Nintendo is selling it without dock in Japan.

And you fall in the same trap of OTBWY of confusing direct and indirect competitors.

If PS4 wasn't in the market X1 would sell much more and vice-versa (you having both is irrelevant). If Switch didn't launch neither PS4 nor X1 would have sold much more.

You mean the Switch that is specifically named "Switch 2nd Unit Set" and is marketed specifically to households that already own a Switch and therefore already have the dock?  The Switch 2nd Unit Set doesn't even come with a charger for this reason.  The buyer it is marketed towards is specifically assumed to already have a dock in their home.  The 2nd unit set is the cheap option to get a 2nd Switch into the consumer's home.