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by retromagik 1802 days ago
The switch is widely used as a portable game console. The switch lite can't even connect to the dock
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Widely-used really doesn't mean anything anything to me.

The numbers are 13 million lite vs 85 million non-lite sales.

The mobile part is a meme, it's subsidized by the people who just want play Nintendo games (and the switch is the only/best way to do it)

There are numbers from Nintendo on the breakdown between mobile and dock usage, and they indicate a larger percentage of users play undocked vs docked.

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2017/10/nintendo_gamers_pr...

I saw the same numbers. They are from 2017 just months after it was released, back before many Nintendo exclusives had been released and even these numbers show 70% of users spend significant amount of time docked.