Project Indy: The 3DS successor that was shelved

[JackHandy]

JWeinCom said:

JackHandy said:

The strangest thing about Nintendo, imo, is how they left the home console market and no one noticed because they allowed their next super-powerful, HD handheld to be played on the TV. It was a master-stroke of marketing genius on Nintendo's part, to be sure. But I'm still shocked no one in major media pointed this out.

But... did they leave the home console market?

If the Switch was exactly the same except for the fact that it was a traditional box with no screen and the Joycons were just seperate, would that be a home console? If so, I don't really see how adding the screen would make it not a home console. I think it can be both.

Technically, it's a hybrid. Which also means technically, it's not a home console. But it's pretty obvious to me that Nintendo pulled a fast one on all of us, including myself. Because not many years after it launched, they even released a dedicated handled version... which is something that never happened with the NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Wii and Wii-U. I think the the colossal commercial failure of the Wii-U was the last straw for Iwata, and that was the genesis behind their hybrid angle. Marketing it as a home console that could be taken out of the house instead of a handheld that could be played on the television was a genius diversion, and it worked.