Nintendo's success with the Switch both a blessing and a curse?

[Mnementh]

SammyGiireal said:

scottslater said:

What do you consider "impressive" for a console? Because I can say that I have had more fun with the Switch as a console over as a handheld.  I get what you're saying but to dismiss the appeal of the Switch as a console is very short sighted.  It would take more than one bad console for them to abandon that or else we wouldn't have had the Wii after the GameCube... And as a console I find the Switch lineup better than what Xbox/PS offer right now (Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, Zelda: BotW, Mario Odyssey, Pokemon Sw/Sh, Smash, Mario Kart, etc.)

Had the Switch been a Home console it would have failed. The Switch is my favorite system because of its portability and most of the market sees it as such. Nintendo left the home console bussiness. 

Does that really matter? Say, the PS6 drops BluRay and only banks on SSDs. You could say then Sony has left the optical disc drive console market, which they started their gaming enterprise on. Or an easier example: with PSVR, you might say Sony is leaving the home console market to enter the VR console market.

But would it matter? In the end all that counts is, they have a system which runs games and you want to play said games. Nothing else matters.