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Barkley said:

potato_hamster said:

Okay. so we can lump the features of the operating system and API in the definition. It matters very little for the intents and purposes of trying to define a hybrid game console. This is literally just arguing over semantics and beyond the intent of the question I was asking. For the purposes of trying to define what a hybrid game console is, we can assume any potential hardware solution plays video games, and the API of the consoles allows game developers to access most, if not all the hardware within the console in a meaningful way. Is that good enough?

One more question. Is the distinction between whether a knife is a tool or weapon dependant on what the knife was created for and the purpose behind it's creation? A.K.A is the purpose behind the creation of something an important factor to consider when defining something?

A knife is a tool. It's made for cutting things. Anything can become a weapon depending on how it's used. A Motorcycle Helmet that was purpose built to save someone's life can also be used to bludgeon someone to death. In that sense, why does the designed intent matter? That motorcycle helmet was still used as a weapon, even if the creator never intended it to be used that way, or thought of it being used that way while creating it.

So no, I don't necessarily think it's created intent matters that much.