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Biggerboat1 on 08 January 2019
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Intrinsic said:
RolStoppable said:

 

While I don't think that you have the same motivation as CrazyGPU, your statement that Nintendo is not in the home console business is misguided, because for the average person any dedicated gaming device that connects to a TV and provides generally expected functionality such as local multiplayer is a home console. Switch as a hybrid serves both the home console and handheld console side, so Nintendo is still in both businesses even once the 3DS is gone. Every customer is free to decide how much usage as home console or handheld console their Switch gets, and the only new thing Switch brings as a hybrid console is that any given user can decide how the console is used. However, that doesn't create a new hybrid console business.

If your interpretation is that Switch is only in the handheld business, you have to explain how and why a $300 handheld with $60 games sells so well after the previous generation had two $250 handhelds with $40 games that both had significant problems to get a foothold in the market.

Well first off... you are right. My opinion could very well be misguided especially considering the extremist nature of my qualification.

But you will be wrong to assume that I am saying that because the NS is not in the home console business anymore it means I am saying they are in the handheld business. I am not, cause I don't think the NS is a handheld either. 

I think its a hybrid.

Now as I have explained, while its a hybrid I feel it has more in common with a handheld than a hme console, I feel it was built from the round up as a handheld albeit one built for 2017 but it is by all means a hybrid.

Now that could explain why it sells for what it sells, that could be one of the home console thins it has inherited too. So the same way I will argue that nintend has pulled out of the traditional home console market is the same way I would argue that they have pulled out of the traditional handheld market. Its a hybrid. 

Can't you see how silly that sounds though...

Nintendo employs the same people it did before Switch came out, makes the same games, sells to the same market - yet according to you they have pulled out of 1 business, are pulling out of another and have moved into a completely new business...

Does it not make more sense that that by creating a single hybrid they remain in both the handheld and home console markets? 

Take the Surface Book - it's a hybrid - it's design allows it to be a tablet and a laptop, rather than precludes it from being either - which seems to be what you're saying...