Project Indy: The 3DS successor that was shelved

[JackHandy]

JWeinCom said:

JackHandy said:

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. 

No, hybrid does not technically mean it's not a home console. Unless that also means that it is not a handheld. And claiming that the Switch is neither a handheld nor a home console obviously makes no sense. It has to be at least one, and I see no reason why it can't be both.

I'll ask the question in a different way. What is the Switch lacking that would have to be added to consider it a home console?

By the strictest of definitions no, it isn't a handheld. It's a hybrid.

But I look at it like this.

If you knew nothing of the two, and I took the Switch (joy cons attached) and the PS5, plopped them down on a table and asked you to blindly identify which one was the handheld and which one was the home console, do you think you would have have said Switch? Heck no! You'd have instantly said Switch was the handheld and the PS5 was the home console. And the reason for it would be totally logical, because that's what it is. It's a Nintendo handheld that can be played on a TV. 

But if that fails to convince you, then we'll just have to disagree and leave it at that, since I don't want to argue over something so petty. Doesn't matter in end what we define it as. It is whatever it is. That and we're annoying Curl lol

Last edited by JackHandy - on 24 March 2022