I think that says more about the falling AUD

It's an easy excuse to dismiss its dominance in certain realms of the home console market. Due to its hybrid nature, people will mold the Switch to form whatever notion they need it to in order to fit their idea of something being a "winner."

It seems my sentiment from Carl's thread has spread.

If you want to call someone out, then do that instead of setting up a strawman. Don't pretend it's a mass sentiment amongst a group of people when it's a handful of people you don't like stating known facts in a way that triggers you.

Yes its relevant because it proves that handheld with price point of $250 dont sell. In any case Switch has price point than that.

Dev costs are going up with every new gen, but we don't see AAA games are getting $70, $80 or $90 price point, they are still $60 like they always were. Difference between disk and flash memory cards is not big.

Lol, Switch games doesn't have nothing with 3DS games, costs actually went up even compared to Wii U games and prices remain same.

If dev costs and cartridges price have big roll on SW price, we would have price of Switch AAA games above Wii U AAA games (over $60) not on same level, despite fact Switch games are more advance and has "cartridges" compared to Wii U games.

The difference here is that portability is a factor, not the sole offering. People claiming the Switch is a handheld are locking it into the handheld category for their own reasons, not because its "portability is a major advantage." The Switch is both a home console and a handheld. Nintendo even considers it their home console, but one with handheld properties.

The PS4 comparison is not one-in-the-same because the PS4 is only a home console and nothing else.

So because I took the time to explain why being part handheld benefits the Switch in a country where handhelds dominate, I'm a problem, right?

And it couldn't be that you're just biased in favor of Nintendo. Forget the ingenious marketing strategy of having your cake and eating it too that the Switch embodies between the handheld and home markets. It's clear that Nintendo didn't actually think that through thoroughly and just released a hybrid console for shits and giggles.

I mean, it IS true.

Nothing wrong with that. Nintendo is good at handhelds, and the Switch covers the handheld part perfectly.

Hybrid laptops are better at being tablets than laptops, but they still do both things effectively.

The majority are hilariously weak as a laptop, but as a tablet the specs are fine. Would something like a Lenova Yoga not be a hybrid to you?

I think a lot of users (see: like, four) are getting triggered by this because they perceive it as some kind of attack on Nintendo rather than an observation of fact. I think they would be significantly less upset if we added an "also" in there, like so:

"Switch is doing great in Japan because it is also a handheld."

Yeah, I see no reason why this should upset them. I wonder if they dislike it when people say the Wii did well because it was a casual console