@UmniKnight Can you conclusively prove those statements though? If you can, sure, but before you say "This is how it is" I want your evidence, less I am reduced to simply countering your points with asking for proof, and saying there are many outliers to your point.
Breath of the Wild runs at 720p handheld, hitting mostly 30fps. 900p docked, hitting mostly 30fps. One of those is, by objectivity, better.
Another example - Splatoon 2: 720p max resolution at 60fps on handheld. 1080p 60 on docked.
Another - Sonic Mania: 720p 60fps handheld. 1080p 60fps docked.
Another: Mario Kart 8: 720p 60fps handheld. 1080p 60fps docked.
Another: Minecraft: 720p 60 with few dips handheld. 1080p with few dips docked.
Games, with very few exceptions I must stress, they do exist but are few, run better at a higher resolution or frame rate when docked than handheld. Simply because the power supply and higher resolution of a TV means the extra power of the Switch can be used, rather than be wasted on pushing higher resolution visuals on a screen that cant show them by pixel count.
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@UmniKnight Wait, your argument is that you see people never using it docked, only as a handheld, because "That's what it is and Nintendo lied"....yet you just said you never use it out of the dock.
Methinks the pot is calling the kettle black right now.
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If you don't see any, fair enough. However to me the value is it plugs into my TV and plays lots of really good games that look great*. No it isn't as powerful as other consoles but so what? My XB1 isn't as powerful as my PS4 Pro but that doesn't mean it's worth less as a home Console.
*P.S. Actually the value to me is the flexibility, that it's both a superbly Powerful handheld as well, but we're strictly talking home Console worth here.
@UmniKnight when di Nintendo lie to you. The reveal and in fact every trailer since launch has showed it being used both docked and handheld. They've marketed it as what it is... a hybrid.
@electrolite77 Oh yeah no, as a handheld, the Switch is the living god among regulars, and a true marvel. But as a home-console? Compared to the others? Eh... The best thing the handheld part can do for the home-console only users is bring in more people, hence more install-base, hence more games.
@BLP_Software It's not of that "because" it's that what just about every place of Switch news gives me. All I see, is people talking about how they use it handheld, see it as a handheld, and wonder why it has a dock. Any surprise I feel like a minority user about to be discarded?
@BigBadJohn Perhaps not lied, but they're playing very loosely with the term "home-console" as it stacks up for the worse, if not far worse in contrast to the others. For some, handheld is the reason for purchase. For me, it's an unwanted feature that has had many sacrifices come to pass to accommodate it.
It has always been marketed as a home console you can take on the go.
Did you miss the key word?
A home console you can take on the go.
One more time, so you get it. A home you console you can take on the go.
Hint, for the uninformed: CAN. Optional. It is a choice. A choice, you make, to suit your life, that works for you. People will choose what is best for them. The entire ethos is in the slogan.
Anytime, anywhere, with anyone. Switch and play. You decide how it is used. They don't. They made a device for everyone, with many use cases, all of which have merit. Its up to you, as an individual, to decide what that is for you.
For you and many, many others, believe me, it is a home console. Myself included. I use it 75% docked. For some it is more of a handheld. Back when I was at university, and thus travelling, handheld it was, because that use case fit my life at the time. Now, its more of a home console, but I don't need to buy a second device for that privilege.
You, are not a minority. You own a Switch. You play it how you want. But that doesn't mean you are special or the only one because believe me you are not. You wont be discarded or thrown away.
Besides, wasn't your argument about whether or not it has value as a home console? Now it seems to be about your insecurity and buyers remorse.
I will also add humanity has issues with categories. Everything needs to fit in a box. Exams do that in school. Put you in a box. Genres, are a box. Different kinds of media, are a limiting box. Hell, cars are diesel, petrol, electric. Categories. They all fit neatly into a little box.
But hybrid cars? Remember the uproar there. Its not one or the other, so what is it? The concept of hybrids is hard to get around because it doesn't fit a pre-conceived arbitrary box. To humans that is maddening. Everything needs a definitive label and whenever a new label comes that people don't understand or messes up their current systems of categorising everything, they rebel.
The Switch is a hybrid. It is a choice. How you use the controllers, is a choice, based on you, as an individual. Whether the system is a handheld or not, is down to how you as an individual use it. Whether the games are handheld or home console style experiences and your enjoyment of them, is again, down to you. Some games in my library feel far superior as short handheld experiences. But they also don't feel out of place on a TV. It doesn't fit a category because it is a hybrid.
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@BLP_Software My conundrum is that, as a pure home-console, the Switch could've done quite a bit more. And again, it doesn't stack up that well compared to other home-consoles (PS4/Xbox One) now does it?
If it didn't have Nintendo IP that are so annoyingly near-and-dear to my heart, I would've had a PS4 Slim by now.
@UmniKnight It doesnt stack up because thats not what it is.
Again, youre putting it in a box because you wont accept there are more labels than you think.
Console. Portable. Hybrid. It could have done more but it would at that point be another home console in that box. Such a move is illogical for Nintendo and the industry.
I suggest you buy a PS4 and be happy. But remember it fits only into one category. You domt get the freedom of choice but that may be better for you.
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@UmniKnight Nintendo consoles haven't gone for power since the Gamecube, and they stopped having good third party support since the SNES. Not sure what you were expecting.
Nintendo games don't tend to demand a lot of power, anyway.
@BLP_Software I've started enjoying Nintendo during the SNES era, and too many franchises that are theirs exclusively have their hooks in me. That's been a problem of Nintendo's for quite some time: Want their franchises? Buy their machine, you've got no choice.
@KirbyTheVampire Yeah, I guess the Switch's success got me to think things were going to change for once.
I think people are tyring too hard to put the console in a home console or handheld camp. But the point is, they still have teams for 3DS games (apparently), and teams for Switch games. Nintendo themselves treat the Switch as a home console experience, just one that you can take on the go. Wonderful little niche it put itself into, I'm loving it
@Operative2-0 That's the thing, I'm going by what Nintendo themselves figures is the Switch's camp, which puts it in line to be compared with the PS4/Xbox One.
If they'd have actively marketed it as a hybrid, or people didn't look at the form-factor, and that the dock is but extra fluff, I would've believed it.
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