The fuck did I just read? And why the link? what's it supposed to prove? all those links are meaningless.
There only meaningless if you can't follow simple conversations, the point was that JRPGS aren't called JRPGS because the companies are in Japan.
What do you think JRPG mean? Japanese-Style RPG. RPGs made in Japan.
I literally just gave links of where the term came from, how it used to be used, and directly contradicted your post showing you're wrong.
JRPG was never about rpgs made in japan. JRPGS came from console rpg, no one was calling the PSX japanese developed remakes JRPGS. All the links I gave were form the 90'.
When you have to lie and omit stuff (notice you ran off from 98% of your position in this post which mostly focused on JRPG terminology?) to pretend to have an argument, you never had one.
Sorry.
Let me start by saying that a handheld console is still a console,
Most on Neogaf knows by this point you're bullshitting. Consoles have been separated from handhelds for decades this shit isn't going to work.
. If Japan was indeed all about portability, the version that should sell the most would be the lite,
Japan was handheld land since the 2000's. This is not going to work either.
The Lite came out 2 years later, it's also a worse portable than the OG switch as the OG switch has a larger screen, keeps the rumble, table top mode, and you can swap the controllers. There's no REAL advantage to the lite, so outside of maybe kids or people who want a lighter form factor there's no reason to even choose the lite especially in the age of people wanting bigger screens on the move. Not to mention there are more OGs out there.
Why would Japan stop suddenly be dominated by portability because the Switch came out? Huh?
In this case, at the time of the launch of BotW in japan on Wii U and Switch, if we used your logic, that home machine with a 3 million install base in Japan, it's version of the game would have sold better than it did. But it didn't, and the Switch version rocked the house out the gate. Why? because you could TAKE BotW ON THE GO. Portability was a major factor in the sales.
Of course there is a benefit to killing the Wii U and putting all software and other efforts on the Switch, and there will be some people who play docked, not 100% of Japan is portable Switch durr, but let's not be silly and pretend that portability isn't a major factor in the Switches sales in a portable/mobile dominated Japan. Many of the most popular games are portable or based on portable franchises by an incredibly large margin against the software successes that are optimal toward docked mode. Which you could still play in portable mode in most cases adequately anyway.
Using your logic, you would also have to ignore the DS domination despite it's better competition than what the Switch has, also the 3DS which lost a good chunk of sales from the DS family. There would have to be indication of an expansion with the Switch and there isn't. As it is now, it's making up for the 3DS and trending along the DS, however, in japan it has basically no competition unlike what the DS had, which had the PS3, the Wii, and even the 360. Not to mention late GBA, and the PSP.
If anything the Switch gives even more proof that Japan is becoming more portable. The collapse of the console market is making the Switch the most viable gaming device in the country that isn't mobile. The Switches sales aren't even surprising when there's been year and years and years of declining console interest, and not that didn't suddenly vanish like magic.