Are Handhelds = Consoles?

[Goodnightmoon]

vivster said:

Goodnightmoon said:

I´m just going to copy paste where I said in the previous thread, I´m tired of this nonsense debate:

They are not devices designed with the main purpose of playing videogames, not at all, nobody sells videogames for hadhelds neither, in fact those are not real videogames because they are not on a homeconsole, and they don´t make profit for videogame companies, and they have been totally irrelevant in the industry of videogames (tetris and pokemon are niche)

Oh wait, now that I think of, handheld is just an adjective of...HOW IS THE FREAKING CONSOLE, a handheld CONSOLE.

To say that a handheld console is not a console is just as stupid as saying that a mobile phone is not a phone because is mobile... WTF?

Context dude. It's all about comparisons not categories. You can put things in similar categories but once you compare them on the same level despite having completely different attributes, you crossed the line.

That's also why we don't compare smartphone sales with home phones.

The Op is about handhelds not being consoles, when not even the question makes sense, of course they are, how can anybody think they are not? They do everything a console is supposed to do, they are focused on gaming, they have tons of physicall and (now) digital games just like consoles,  they report huge benefits selling hardware and software for video game companies just just like the rest, they are only consoles to play on the go, nothing less, nothing more, you can say they have different prices and that jazz but homeconsoles are not priced the same neither and some handhelds have been more expensive than some homeconsoles (3DS and PSV were more expensive than GC and Wii for instance).They are consoles in all senses, maybe people is used to call console to a homeconsole and hanheld to handheld consoles, but that´s another story, that has nothing to do with the fact that they are consoles