| Intrinsic said:
This is why I say the NS functions as a hybrid (something that can do both) but is designed from the ground up as a handheld. .One can say that its "home console" function is secondary since they are just a by product of secondary tech (dock) added to the box and since it will work in its entirety regardless of that added tech. Its like a laptop. Laptops fall under the classification of Mobile PCs. No one calls them desktop PCs even though they can work and perform identically to a Desktop PC. We even have some laptops that are more powerful than desktop PCs but they are still not called desktops. I can take my laptop and plug it to my TV and even close the lid but still that does not make it a desktop even though its acting like one. The reason for all this confusion is because there isn't an official name or classification for what kinda device the NS is. So naturally people will disagree on what it is since everyone is trying to shoehorn it into pre existing categories. I chose to look at it as a hybrid. Built like a handheld but designed to be both. |
This.
And on another topic, being designed as a handheld has consequences. The games designed for it can't have comparable hardware requirements when compared to the others home consoles. So they get ported or made completely downgraded, so the 3rd party experience is inferior. Of course Nintendo Relay in highly creative talent that can make games like Zelda BOTW. But why can't you have both things like with GOW or RDR2? Of course you loose the portability of the handheld. Yo can't have both at the price. The other extreme would be Microsoft XBox One X. It has better hardware, runs RDR2 for example with better textures than any other console but it almost looses great exclusives saving two or three out there.
Anyway. Most people that enjoy multiplats will choose between XBox and PS4. And people that loves Nintendo will buy Switch.
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