Global Hardware 14 September 2019 (PS4 Tops 100M)

[COKTOE]

Wyrdness said:

COKTOE said:

But, the Switch is considered a hybrid due to being a home console and a portable. Table top was really never part of the equation. Switch lite doesn't even have a kickstand, so that function has been nerfed to a significant degree as well.

The important thing to remember, is that the Switch Lite is a portable/handheld console, and naught else. I could give a f*** how it's counted, but look forward to many, many years of this topic being brought up. Hopefully in every sales thread.

The have been consoles that only play in a table top form I gave an example in the Vectrex and due to that it puts table top mode very much in the equation not having a kick stand does not stop this either as the are a number of stands that can be purchased for such Lite is just a portable variation of the Switch platform and even as a portable variation it's still a hybrid.

Well, fair enough. You won't sell me on the idea it's still a hybrid though. I can prop up a Vita with a book, and use a DS4 as a controller, but wouldn't classify it as a hybrid either. Yeah, the Vetrex was a thing, ( had fun with it and always wanted one ), but when classifying the Switch as a hybrid, you know as well as I do, that a close to 100% majority were doing so on the basis that it was/is a combination of a home console and a portable console, as these are the only 2 type of console classifications that have had any relevance in the video game industry in it's entire history.