Nintendo DS Becoming Best Selling Console of All Time in a Couple of Days

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RolStoppable said:

homer said:

RolStoppable said:

Whoa there, I chose my words carefully. I said "made for", not "used for". If I said the latter, then one could argue that a gaming PC is a console (which it isn't). The PS3 may be able to Blu-ray movies, but it was made to play video games first and foremost.

Whoops, misread your post. Some pcs are made specifically for gaming though, right? Wouldn't that make them consoles, or are you saying that they have to have both unified specs and be made to game? Also, there is only one way to find out if a "console" was made to be used as a gaming device, ask the people who made it. For all we know, the Wii could have been made primarily for the photo channel lol.

Yes, there also needs to be unified hardware. I edited that into the post you just quoted, but I had that part already in my first post on this subject, so it's not like I am grasping for straws.

Asking the people who made it isn't the only or even the best way to find out what the device was primarily made for, because there can be a huge difference between what people say and what they actually do. You just have to look at what purpose the most money is invested in by the manufacturer. For console makers it's naturally the development of video games, so there's no question about what these machines were intended for.

Wait, if a company invested the most on marketing of said system, what would it make it then? Say if Apple developed a console, and took a completely hands off approach to its platform, and only marketed it as being shiny, had 3rd party software, and unified specs, would it then be a console.