The "consoles are dead" years were hilarious in retrospect

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JuliusHackebeil said:

Don't know how it is today, but some years back Doug Bowser said that the split between playing switch docked vs undocked is even, 50:50. So I would presume Nintendo thinks of the Switch as a device that delivers as much of a mobile experience as it does a home console experience.

I mean it is a 100 % true what you are saying. Regarding its tech, its built, the Switch is absolutely a mobile device with a dock. But in practice, it is as much a mobile device as it is a home console. At least that is what it was a few years back. Did not read anything recent on the split though.

It's a mobile device. - The fact it can dock, doesn't change that fact.
My Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra has a dock and interfaces with my display, it's actually one of the benefits of USB-C.

In-fact if I go back to something like the old Lumia 950XL you had the Microsoft Display dock which turned the phone into essentially a PC using continuum.

Phones and Tablets have docks and predate the Switch's docking technology. - My tablet is always docked in the kitchen, it never leaves it, I use it for fire alerts.
But they are still mobile devices.

But what reinforces the Switch being a mobile device and not a home fixed console or even a hybrid is that, regardless that is has a touch display, mobile SoC, battery and can be taken outside of the home...

It is the Switch Lite. Which can't do any of that anyway,

The one big caveat of having a single device on the market though is that, if you screw up... I.E. A WiiU/Vita moment, then you don't have a second platform to rely on to bring in revenue, it's more inherent risk.
This was evident with the 3DS line picking up the slack from the WiiU.