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Intrinsic on 28 September 2019
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Deeds said:
Intrinsic said:

But that's the thing... it has the one differentiating feature that literally makes it either a handheld or a hybrid. You CANNOT plug it into a TV. I do not care if it plays all the games or not, or can also support controllers or not. What makes something a home console is that it's tethered to a TV, you cannot use the device without a TV (as such to my original argument in 2017 on why the switch should never have been grouped with home consoles to begin with). What makes something a handheld is that its mobile or on the go, the device can exist in its entirety without a TV because it has its own TV.

It's not about if its weaker or stronger, bigger or smaller. Its about use case/form factor, that is the key differentiator between something being a handheld and a home console. The Switch lite is NOT a home console. Its that simple...

Ok, let me make it simple for everyone...

Is the Nintendo Switch Lite a home console? Or a handheld.

It really simple. The Switch Lite is a Switch.

Lol... and that my friend is a cop out. Ok, the vey name switch was becaue it could be used as a "home console" and a "handheld". Hence why the whole ybrid thing came about. Can you use the Switch lite as a home console? So what is it "switching" to?

Deeds said:

This whole argument about the Switch lite being counted differently is stupid. Its not a new unique device. Its a PORTABLE ONLY SWITCH. Its still a Switch. Also everyone (NPD, Famitsu, Media Create) will combine them because they dont have weird agenda's, they just report data.

Again,for the umpteenth time (and I am guessing this keeps coming up cause its the best way to dismiss what I am saying). I have never said, that the switch lite be counted differently. I am saying that it (the Nintendo Switch as a platform) being counted along with home consoles was and is a mistake to begin with. And I have been saying that since 2017. The reason its coming up again is that Nintendo just validated my point. They made a switch lite.

Right now? the switch as a platform has more in common with a handheld than a home console, and you don't have to take my word for it... in two years you will find that the switch lite is the better selling iteration of the Nintendo switch with the larger install base. You can chalk this off as yet another prediction I am making, the same way I said (back in 2017)that in under 3 years Nintendo will make a dedicated handheld version of the switch the second they try and make a cheaper version.

Are we just going to continue pretending that the Nintendo Switch lite is not a handheld in every traditional sense of the word?