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:

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?

Nope, because they aren't taking away sales from them, but I won't enter in the same discussion of the other thread.

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.

Yes someone could (and we know some do, but in here we have only seem Nintendo fans taking this approach and praise) but most of the demanding console games still haven't (and possibly won't) get released on Switch so most of time there isn't a trade-off to make.

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?

My point here is that we have to go to a consensus and that even Nintendo flip about what they consider Switch (and most probably they don't want to admit Switch is 3DS replacement because they are still sucking some juice out of it). But sure I have no problem if everyone decides to treat it as a console, and thus not make excuses for its low power, and that wouldn't change the fact of direct or indirect competition. Wii was a home console (even if very weak compared to competitors) and still didn't directly compete as it was in a blue ocean, switch at the moment is craving a blue ocean by allowing playing in the go. When their sales or the competitor get affect great time by one another then I may consider they as direct competitor.