What should Nintendo have done instead of Wii U?

[Pyro as Bill]

Cerebralbore101 said:

Pemalite said:

It's semi portable as I can walk around several rooms and game without being tied to any physical cord.

Aka. Hybrid.

The WiiU has a TV display output as well, which is a key feature of a hybrid console.

No. All perfectly relevant.

Either way, Switch is a console with a heavier emphasis on being a portable gaming device, where-as the WiiU has a heavier emphasis on being a fixed home console.

I own both.

They can both be portable (With one being a little more restricted) and they can both be a fixed console. - They are both hybrids with differing caveats.

It's semi portable as I can walk around several rooms and game without being tied to any physical cord.

Aka. Hybrid.

In technology a hybrid is a device that takes some or all of the functions of two different devices and combines them into a single device. A washer/dryer combo or a V-22 Osprey are good examples of hybrids. A smartphone is a hybrid of a Phone, Computer, MP3 Player, and Digital Camera. I get what you are trying to say here. You are trying to say that walking around your house while playing is a function of a portable. And since Wii U combines that function and the home console function, it is thus a hybrid. I disagree with that though, because doing something poorly does not make a hybrid. A washer designed to spin your clothes out, at extreme speeds, until they are just slightly damp wouldn't qualify as a hybrid. An MP3 player with Wi-Fi calling (edit: and no ability to connect to a phone tower) wouldn't qualify as a smartphone. 

The WiiU has a TV display output as well, which is a key feature of a hybrid console.

Yes, having TV display output is a key feature of a hybrid. We agree, but you said it as if it somehow damages my argument. What's your point? 

No. All perfectly relevant.

How so? Explain. 

Either way, Switch is a console with a heavier emphasis on being a portable gaming device, where-as the WiiU has a heavier emphasis on being a fixed home console.

No, Switch does both equally well. We've had three generations of Nintendo home consoles (Wii, Wii U, Switch) being weaker machines than the contemporary competing home consoles. So as far as the Nintendo home console aspect is concerned Switch doesn't cut corners. Wii U on the other hand is a pseudo-portable, with only a very small selection of mainline Nintendo games actually having the off-TV play functionality. Most Nintendo games required both the gamepad screen and the TV screen to play. I can't speak for non-Nintendo games though, because Wii U had terrible 3rd party support that I didn't get into. 

You calling the Wii U a portable is as wrong as trying to call a motorcycle with a sidecar a car. 

Or trying to call this thing being dragged by a motorcycle a car. 

I own both.

Same. Hopefully they can finish porting the last four good games from Wii U over. That way my Wii U can be like...

'Hybrid' is nothing but useless marketing nonsense when applied to technology. If Switch is a hybrid then PS4 is an incest baby.