Remember when the Wii U was aiming for the "core gamer"?

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IcaroRibeiro said:

TheMisterManGuy said:

Yet in spite of all that, I think the Switch is seen as less of a joke to "core gamers" compared to the Wii purely because it's also a handheld. That makes it less easy to compare to and scoff at since Nintendo was always better at being a portable platform holder vs. a console one. 

It's because Switch follows the standard control schema. No more mandatory motion controls nonsense like Wii did. If you plug a Switch on your TV is just your standard console, with slightly better PS3 graphics but a console still. 

I mean, the Joy-Con are basically successors to the Wii Remote and Nunchuck. Of course, they don't have the same limited button layout as those controllers, so you are correct that you can more easily use the Switch as a normal console. But motion control is still a big part of the system's identity, with a lot of first and third party games offering motion control options, or some games requiring them. Even if it's not "the point" like it was with the Wii.