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potato_hamster on 10 July 2019
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Barkley said:
potato_hamster said:

If a console has a hardware feature and no games take advantage of that feature, does it count as a hardware feature? For example, the Sega Genesis controller had one terrible shoulder "Mode" button that no game to my knowledge ever used. Is someone incorrect if they say that the Sega Genesis did not feature a controller with a shoulder button?

Your post makes no sense, the shoulder button is a physical reality, it's objectively real.

Meanwhile a device that has a cpu/gpu and ram but can't play games is objectively not a video game console.

Having the same hardware internally of a console doesn't make it a console. If it is capable of nothing other than playing video and music it is a media player. Thus hardware on it's own is not enough to define what a device is. You must take into account what it CAN be used for, which includes software, and what it was designed and created for.

I think you're taking me a bit too literal, and I think we're saying the same thing. It doesn't matter if no sega genesis game did use the shoulder button as an input, it remains that it could. The potential is there, that's what matters.

Last edited by potato_hamster - on 10 July 2019