According to nintendo the creator its a house. there is a concept for a house that can be packed and attached to a truck for moving. So I can call it a house that can move as well and a full fledged house since it is capable of playing most home console games while an rv cannot contain most household items. So its more accurate to call it a portable home console or a house that moves rather than an RV or a dockable handheld console.

But there is a difference. When the house is on the truck, it isn't really meant for living. Its meant for travelling to the next place it will be placed.

Switch is pretty much a RV. Its main purpose is to travel. It does it well. Even to do it right, you still have to deal with its massive size, gas mileage and the costs associated with driving it. You can live in it like a house. But its not a house. Many concessions must take place for it to happen.

Face it. Switch is a handheld with a TV out. Its not a home console.

You're right. What matters is what Nintendo calls it. Nintendo calls it a home console, and that is a lie.

No. I don't like it. What makes you think that this pleases me in any way?

Its because I think they did do something wrong. I've said it before, but by chasing the blue ocean they jumped into the reddest ocean in the world. Average consumers aren't going to see a home console. They are going to see a tablet, and it will immediately be compared to ipads, tablets, and other mobile devices. I doubt average consumers will be looking to carry another tablet along with them. Switch needs to be able to do everything a iphone or ipad does. Otherwise it will be a featureless tablet that won't be taken along.

Let me ask you. Lets say you saw Switch. No controller nubs. No dock. Switch just laying on a table. And next to it was a ipad, and a samsung tablet. And along with those are a tablet from every other tablet maker. Would you be able to tell the difference? You might. But the average consumer is going to see it, and see just another tablet.

And I bet that the table used to hold all those tablets would be incredibly huge. Switch is now just one of thousands of other tablets out there. Nintendo chose this. They decided that by running away from MS and Sony and by going with a tablet, that they are now in competition with thousands of other devices. And they are late to the game with add ons that average consumers hate.

Think about it. A parent would just as easily hand their kid a ipad mini. And now they can say 'Look! It even has Mario on it.'

If the Switch is really just a portable tablet then I'm out. I won't buy it anymore,

Hey thats just the way I see it. Its most likely the way the average consumer sees it too. Just because Sony made a smart phone doesn't mean it sold out. Same with Windows phones and the same with lots of other things. The Google Pixel. The Facebook Rift. Nintendo Switch. Name brand doesn't matter as much since name brands have been coming out of nowhere. The Nintendo name doesn't carry weight like its 1989.

Geez. Have I commented on this? So many Switch threads. I consider the fact that the dock offers no extra computing power to be a negative. I have however, fully embraced the idea that it's a handheld. I doubt I would ever use the Switch on a tv as it is. I love the Vita. Have 3 of them. 2 oled, 1 lcd. I also have a PSTV, but have never used it. So although this is not my ideal situation, and I totally wanted it to have some docking boost, it's all good really. It's a kickass handheld.

it is a console.

A handheld video game console.

The question should be is it a HOME video game console.