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Biggerboat1 on 08 January 2019
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Intrinsic said:
Biggerboat1 said:

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...

It only sounds silly if you are still trying t define the switch by the old standards.

Its a hybrid.

Nintendo is still in the game making business. Its just that right nw they are a hybrid console company. Their software teams will still d what they do They will sell their hardware to portable and home gamers alike. But that is because they have a hybrid system now.

Lets look at the facts.....

NS is underpowered to be a traditional home console. Its too powerful to be a  traditional handheld console. S it falls somehwere in the middle. 

That they still are present in both home and handheld markets with one device doesn't change the fact that that its not either one of those devices but a new kinda device. I think that is the main draw of the switch....... and if you ask me I think its genius. Nintendo long realized that they can't match sony or MS blow for blow in a hardware race. Or they just felt that business model isn' for them anymore. That is why they made the Wii. And then the 3Ds showed them that a dedicated handheld desn't have the kinda draw handhelds used to have so it had t be more. 

They have ended up with a marriage of both platforms and that is the NS. Its more a handheld than a home console cause it can exist perfectly without the dock but that it can get games that typically were "too big" for mobile is what makes it a hybrid.

Yes, it's a hybrid - but what does that actually mean?

It mean that it functions as both a home console and a handheld.

If it functions as a home console and a handheld, how on earth does that equate to Nintendo leaving the home console and handheld businesses???

And power has nothing to do with defining the nature of a system - that's just your own subjective views at play.

One PC gamer is rocking a RTX2080. Another uses a GTX 760. Are they both PC gamers?