Are Handhelds = Consoles?

[Dr.Henry_Killinger]

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.

This is irrelevant. You are assuming because they are part of the same class, they are compared the same. The reason the term handheld exists is to distinguish it from home consoles, for easier analysis. As a whole, they are both part of the same class, dedicated gaming devices aka consoles.

All squares are rectangles, not all rectangles are squares.