From a technical, architecture, engineering and scientific point of view Switch is a portable because it has most similarity with previous portable devices.
From a marketing point of view it's a hybrid. As products are defined by how they are sold, not how they are made. Whether "hybrid" means "both" or "neither" it really comes down to how you perceive it. I perceive it as neither handheld, nor a home console, but something else entirely because it changed the way I interacted with gaming devices in a deeper level for me
I guess people wants to see Switch badly as home console because the concept of familiarity, we like to associate things the other previous already know things, that way it's easier to understand and classify the new thing. It's easier to brain classify "Switch is both handheld and home console, because it's a hybrid" then "As Switch has aspects of both along with new features, it's probably neither, but something else"
Last edited by IcaroRibeiro - on 24 March 2022
