Sega nomad was Nintendo Switch in the 90's

[Pemalite]

Doctor_MG said:

Pemalite said:

The Switch is a portable console first that has the option to output to a display.
For all intents and purposes, it's a handheld with a base-station that converts it to a fixed device.

Just because the Switch uses mobile hardware does not mean it's a portable console first. Their whole approach was "How can we make something that is not a successor to the Wii U or the 3DS". Their answer was the Switch. The entire concept of it was always about it being both, which was not the concept of any other home console or portable console before it.  

It's not both.

The Switch is a mobile device first and foremost with the functionality to output it's display.

It is built 100% around mobile hardware, battery, screen, processor, ram, storage... Everything is mobile.
It just has a dock that can pass video onto a seperate display...

* My tablet has a dock that allows me to output to a TV via HDMI to a display. STILL a mobile device and not a hybrid.
* My phone has a dock that allows me to output to a TV via HDMI to a display. STILL a mobile device and not a hybrid.

I even have an Android powered gaming tablet with built in physical controls that also outputs to a display via HDMI... Still a mobile device 100%.

Just because it has a dock does not mean it's not primarily a mobile device.

The fact there are variants which use the *exact* same hardware, the absolute exact, right down to the CPU and GPU type, that are mobile-only, just further reinforces the fact that the Switch is a mobile device, not a fixed home console.

The Switch is an absolutely fantastic mobile device, it's actually a really really terrible fixed home-console from a hardware point... But being able to dock is a value added incentive that sadly not everyone gets thanks to the Switch Lite... Well. Existing.