Poll - Is Switch a 9th gen console?

[Pyro as Bill]

DroidKnight said:
It's a hybrid. It can switch between generations. It also has a dock.

The dock does not support the system in doing its core tasks (calculate, render, create, recieving inputs, etc.)

It's only function is to deliver power to the switch and forward the finished picture to the tv and thats nothing exclusive to a gaming system.

(Thus not affecting its definition)

It would take a second gpu/cpu/other core components inside the dock itself to make the switch a hybrid.

Because what all hybrids share is the necessity of having to have 2 or more core task specific sets of hardware.

Example: a hybrid car has both, an internal combustion engine and an electric motor,

because depending on the mode the car is in, it cannot use the other engine.

This does not apply to the switch. Switch uses the same hardware for both modes,

and using the same hardware for both modes is not a switch but a gear shift .

Hybrid is a bullshit marketing term.