Switch is home console seeing the fastest software sales so far in Nintendo's history, Smash Bros sold 5m in first week

[DonFerrari]

Shiken said:

DonFerrari said:
So Nintendo spoke people is also on the let's call home console or handheld depending on the situation instead of always calling it a hybrid?

Well as a hybrid, it is both and therefore applies to either situation at any given time sooooo...

Example, they are talking about 1st party games.  These are Nintendo's console caliber games and therefore get classified as console software sales.  However you can play them portably, so Hybrid would work as well.

Many multiplats however have portability as the only real selling point (barring games with exclusive content) and therefore it is safe to say that this is the handheld version of these games.  Even so however, the core gameplay is exactly the same and the save files work as a console or on the go, so it can classified as a hybrid in this case as well.

I disagree. Many of the discussions in VGC come exactly due to changing Switch from one to the other depending on the props or con someone want to talk about. I do accept it as a hybrid with both pros and cons of being console and hh, but with Nintendo treating it as a console we also should do it.

But this is the type of PR we can see spin smell... like instead of fastest selling videogame (or in this case SW) they point out Nintendo and console, which would indicate that there are non-Nintendo that are above as well as Nintendo HH that also sold most. We have seem this done many times before on MS and probably Sony as well.

Azelover said:

DonFerrari said:
So Nintendo spoke people is also on the let's call home console or handheld depending on the situation instead of always calling it a hybrid?

The Switch is a Hybrid.

But I'd say it's mostly a home console, than it is a handheld.

I've had to explain this many times, but I'm gonna try again. The $299 price point, games at $60, marketed at young adults(instead of children). Games with extensive campaigns. The Switch was shaped the whole way as a Home console primarily, that you can take anywhere. NOT as a handheld that you can connect to the TV.

I would say their signature handheld at the moment is the 3DS, still.

The fact that they haven't discontinued 3DS but have WiiU for me doesn't configure that it isn't replacing both (Sony have kept all PS1,2 and 3 alive for many years after successor). But from marketing stand point, yes it seems like they threat it as a home console. Still if they do it then we shouldn't be treating it as a Hybrid or HH.

zorg1000 said:

DonFerrari said:
So Nintendo spoke people is also on the let's call home console or handheld depending on the situation instead of always calling it a hybrid?

I dont know if Nintendo has ever actually used the term hybrid. They have always described it as a home console that you can take anywhere.

So should we in VGC consider it as console (as it is on the chart) and not make the concessions done to low power because of portability? And yes I do remember the ad they treated it as a home console.