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super_etecoon on 05 October 2025
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Pemalite said:
GoOnKid said:

Ugh, this again? You know I could flip the argument and claim that they dropped the handheld market. The Switch fights both battles, however.

This is a pure handheld in every sense of the word. It's designed primarily as a mobile device that is played in your hands.
And there is literally nothing wrong with that.


Thus far there hasn't been any real logical rebuttal against the Switch being a pure handheld other than "Nintendo Marketing says otherwise".
...Because Marketing. The bastion of truth, logic and facts.

And that is as far as this discussion will likely go if you don't have anything tangible.

I don’t really think this comment deserves a response, but here I am trying to help the VGC forum have activity:

I literally haven’t used my Switch 2 as a handheld since I bought it. It is 100% a Nintendo home console for me. I have never liked Nintendo’s handhelds and if they released another handheld I would not buy that. I am a console gamer and have been once since the Atari 2600 and I always will be one. Gaming on a TV is how I play. Not on a PC monitor, not on my phone, not on an 8 inch handheld display, but on my television. 

So yeah, the Switch is a handheld. Ok. 

Anyway, with that little tired statement out of the way (Pemalite, you’re one of the smartest users here and you always bring up this idea and it always makes you just look bitter and foolish, which is 99% of the time here not your look), Nintendo treats their IPs like their children. Like they’re getting their children ready for a friend’s wedding or retirement party, or their baby shower. They always dress to impress, even on whatever meager budget they have at the time. They have a lot of children, so maybe all of the kids don’t get to come to every event. And yes, sometimes they dress them up in the silliest getups because they have this weird fashion impulse, but 7 out of 10 times the other parents start dressing their kids up like that, too. 

Nintendo takes pride in their long history and you can see how they beam when they bring back an IP that hasn’t been seen in a while. Is it marketing, sure, but on the backend, with the designers and programmers and engineers, that’s just wanting to make sure that kid looks their best and makes their parents proud.