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

[Shiken]

DonFerrari said:

Shiken said:

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.

So as a home console, you admit that it is directly competing with the PS4 and X1 then, correct?

 

I mean you just said we should treat it as a console since Nintendo is saying the same thing.  This also means that the fact that you can take console games on the go with the Switch, it is arguable that one might choose the Switch version for the option of portability while remaining a home console overall and any difference in power is simply the trade off to utilize such a feature effectively.

 

I just want to make sure we are on the same page, because what you just said completely contradicted something that you argued not that long ago in another thread.  But I guess only Nintendo fans lable the Switch one way or another based on what the topic is, right?

Last edited by Shiken - on 17 January 2019