Pachter: "Nintendo should get rid of the Switch console and have only the Lite"

[mjk45]

TruckOSaurus said:

CarcharodonKraz said:

Was it that hard to figure out that I agreed with that part being wrong?  Guess I need to brush up on my communication skills.

I think people take objection to any part of his statement being right. 

Here's a document made by Nintendo a while ago: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2017/171031_2e.pdf if you check on page 8 you'll see a graph about Switch use. Now here's Pachter's statement:

"But I don’t think most people play it in both modes (1), I would say that maybe 20% of Switch owners play both modes (2); and I think most Switch owners play it handheld only (3). So I honestly don’t understand the whole point of the hybrid. Who cares? Play it as a handheld."

1) False, according to Nintendo over 50% of people play it about equally in docked and handheld mode
2) Very false, it's over 50%
3) False, it's about 30% who play it primarily as a handheld

And that's not even factoring that to be placed in the only docked or only handheld category the threshold was 80% of the time in that mode which means even people in those categories sometimes use the other mode.

Besides the main factors that drove Nintendo to make a hybrid like the portable market going from one of growth to shrinking and the state of the WiiU mixed with positives like a hybrid approach consolidating their software output, another stat that was bandied about often enough that anyone with their ear to the ground concerning Nintendo should have known, and even if only partially true seen it in a positive light especially in regards to the Switch's docked mode, and that was Western gamers playtime on Nintendo portables is around 80% home 20% away, so once again his shallow insight shows how his large ego allows him to make assertions at a glance without any underpinning evidence and then paint critic's as dumb trolls.

Last edited by mjk45 - on 25 March 2021