Why do you think Nintendo has survived so long as a platform holder?

[GoOnKid]

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 think the community has had this discusion a thousand times already and I won't derail the thread any further, My argument is that the Switch is either a handheld or a console depending on how you use it. If you leave it in the dock and never take it out (like I do, and like another user in this thread also does), what is it then? Looking at the Switch Lite, yes, that's a handheld. But every other model is both, no matter how many times you disagree.