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Dulfite on 28 September 2019
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Intrinsic said:
colafitte said:
Comparing Normal Switch and Switch Lite is more like comparing a PC with a laptop than a 3DS with a 2DS or PS4 with PS4 pro. Both share the shame exact software, but one have a main characteristic that the other one can't use. With a laptop you can bring your computer everywhere with a battery and with a PC you need to stay in a defined place connected in the same place. With Switch and Switch Lite is the same, just in this case the hybrid part are the laptop and the original Switch, but the other part goes in the opposite direction; the PC is just like a home console and Switch Lite just like a handheld.

Comparing Switch Lite revision like if it was like 2DS or PS4 Pro revisions is wrong in my opinion. The better comparison would be more like PS Vita and PS Vita TV, which by the way both counted to PS Vita total sales (as a handheld to be precise).

Maybe the original problem was not considering Switch a home console OR a handheld in the first place. Maybe the problem is putting a hybrid console against home consoles AND/OR handhelds. An hybrid is its own thing...In my opinion Switch shoud had never been compared to PS4/XBO like it is not compared against 3DS and PSV, for the same very reasons.

But ey..., if we already counted Switch as a home console since 2017, i admit it will be very weird to change that now, even with the Switch Lite, so ...whatever.

Thank you.... And this is exactly the point I am and have been making since 2017. From day one, it's been wrong to compare a hybrid to a home console. It is its own thing. The issue was that in the beginning, we lumped in hybrid in with home consoles primarily because it had "one ting" in common with them. It could be plugged into a TV. Now there is a version of said hybrid (and likely the one that will go onto be the best selling version of it) and it is a full-blown dedicated handheld.

But aparently, I am the one that doesn't and still don't know what a hybrid is. I foresaw this exact predicament.

The problem with calling LITE it's own separate handheld is that it doesn't have differentiating features. Sure it's weaker than the Switch in capabilities, but so does the 3ds. But the 3ds was also 3d.

On top of this, there are no unique games for the LITE. 3ds had it's own lineup of games. If we count LITE as it's own device then it will have terrible sales numbers because it isn't a uniquely dedicated handheld with a unique lineup of games. If it was, I'd buy it myself. As it stands, why would I get it when I can already play those games on my current switch, which I can almost always fit in my pocket? I suspect there are many that would get one of it had unique games, and then we could count it as a legit handheld separate from the Switch. However, because it doesn't have the unique game advantage, I think it would be unfair to call it it's own device for tracking purposes, as it won't sell nearly as much as a unique get backed device like the 3ds would.