Are Handhelds = Consoles?

[Mnementh]

Wonktonodi said:

Mnementh said:

DerNebel said:

 

I can say that there's always been a distinction that's been made between consoles and handhelds and that suddenly disregarding that distinction (while at the same time still insisting on the distinction between consoles/handhelds and smartphones/handhelds) to win a sales arguement in one market is just desperate.

Actually VGC is the first place there I see that people made the distinction. And pokoko is right, the term console is much older than even home consoles, therefore in the past the term gaming console was used to differentiate it from other consoles. Maybe I'm just too old and rememer things and that isn't cool anymore in the 21st century.

Lots of video game media just use console and handhelds. It's an a abbreviation just like how we drop game our video game out if it. Some people aren't happy with it and cause a ruckus instead of reading the context when people use console instead of home console, but they need to accept that console is a commonly accepted abbreviation for home video game console or home console. 

I have no problem with the abbreviation. If people talk about consoles and I can get from context it's about home consoles I'm fine with it. But f people start a thread about home and handheld consoles and people come in and claim handhelds aren't consoles, they aren't picking up on the context and making ruckus about a abbreviation used right. It's all about the context.