The debate in this thread is a bit futile, in my opinion. The way I see it, this is all very simple: if a console is designed to be played only in the go, it's accurate to call it 'portable'; if it's designed to be played only at home, it's accurate to call it 'home console'; if it's designed to be played both at home and in the go, it's accurate to call it 'hybrid'. So to me, for example, Switch Lite is a portable version of a hybrid console. However, if someone else wants to call the standard Switch 'portable' or 'home console', and has reasons to do so, then why not? The point of a device needing to meet a lot of very specific requirements just to be considered a hybrid sounds a bit far-fetched to me, but just plainly saying that it is a portable device because it has portable tech is (in my book) a more than valid reason to consider it portable. In the end, this is all just semantics: different people understand the same reality in different ways, so they may give it different names.
On topic, almost nothing is actually innovative or revolutionary, and that applies to Switch too: everything it does was already done to an extent before, so it's entirely possible that its hybridism (or whatever name it gets) took some inspiration from the Nomad or any other device existing before or after the Nomad.
Last edited by Verter - on 19 March 2021I'm mostly a lurker now.
