Do you think the Switch should count as a console or a handheld?

[Magolor]

Well?

 

[Xiahou Ba]

Don't see why it has to be mutually exclusive, it is set up to be played on a TV and you can carry it around as well.

 

[Magolor]

The wiki classifies it as a console. That's what made me think of this.

 

[YoshiFlutterJump]

Nintendo originally stated that the Switch was a "home console first", but then they released the Switch Lite, which is a "dedicated handheld". So it really belongs to both categories, as it can be used as either a fully functioning home console that never leaves the dock, or a fully functioning handheld that never touches the dock.

 

[Goombuigi]

Seeing as the Switch replaced the Wii U and the Switch Lite replaced the 3DS, it took over both console and handheld territories. So in that sense, I would count it as both.

 

[Princess Viola]

Based on some other communities I've seen, the Switch should be classified as a home console when you're negatively comparing it to the other home consoles and a handheld when you want to praise devs for 'getting something like THIS running on a handheld' :P

Nah but serious, I'd just classify it as both, cause that's what it is, ya know? (Switch Lite excluded, obviously, that's just a handheld)

 

[SpriteBro]

It's primarily a handheld which is now even more obvious thanks to one of the models being exclusively handheld. I mean, nobody would argue that a phone is a home console but you could set it up to a TV it you really wanted to.

 

[Farrah Goodfairy]

yeah i agree with other people that it counts as both

 

[Fanny]

The Switch is a handheld that you can plug into a box to make it display on the TV instead.

 

[Chair]

you know, I most often play it on the tv, but like of course, I bring it while I'm gone, AKA handheld mode, so i can't really say that it's one or another so it's honestly both

 

[Trab]

I'll say that it's a hybrid, even through I rarely use it on the TV.