Between the Big three (Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo), who is the worst when at the top?

[IcaroRibeiro]

Doctor_MG said:

IcaroRibeiro said:

Partially. Switch is partially used as home console and partially as portable, and of course as both as well. Being a different machine altogether also allow a new kind of consumer to emerge, people who wouldn't buy a handheld and wouldn't by a Nintendo home console (favoring Xbox and/or Playstation) but find a pretty good seal paying for a hybrid 

If Nintendo keep releasing only handhelds I'm not sure it they would be able to outsell 3DS, many of Switch system sellers seems better designed to be played on TV (Zelda), while others to be played as portables (Animal Crossing)

To better understand Switch sucess we must first realizing Switch haven't saved any market, but created a new one instead 

Switch reinvigorated the portable console space by offering home console players a portable console. They absolutely reinvigorated interest in portable consoles. Just look at the Steam Deck. I highly doubt Valve would have made that product if not for the success of the Switch. 

As I said, I don't describe this as reinvigorated handheld space, rather as creating a new market space which is the hybrid-console market space. Valve's Steam Deck comes with a device to be plugged on TV or Monitors. Sure, it lacks a dock to increase its power, but I can see their concept is to state that you can play it like a standard PC (and even use it like a PC)

If anything I think Switch was the last nail in the conffin of handhelds. With Lite barely selling 20% of the standard model last quarter we can see handheld-only Nintendo devices are now confines to a very small audience