JackHandy said:
By the strictest of definitions no, it isn't a handheld. It's a hybrid. But I look at it like this. If you knew nothing of the two, and I took the Switch (joy cons attached) and the PS5, plopped them down on a table and asked you to blindly identify which one was the handheld and which one was the home console, do you think you would have have said Switch? Heck no! You'd have instantly said Switch was the handheld and the PS5 was the home console. And the reason for it would be totally logical, because that's what it is. It's a Nintendo handheld that can be played on a TV. But if that fails to convince you, then we'll just have to disagree and leave it at that, since I don't want to argue over something so petty. Doesn't matter in end what we define it as. It is whatever it is. That and we're annoying Curl lol |
That does fail to convince me, because it's a rigged test. First off, you're presenting the Switch as a portable. If I showed it to people docked, on a TV, with Joycon's detached with the wrist bands, they may think differently. Second, it's relying on people who don't know what it actually does who would be the worst to make that call. Third, it's circular, as you're starting with the assumption that one of the two objects is not a home console, which is what you're trying to prove.
It's the same as presenting someone with no specific knowledge about dolphins and coyotes a dolphin and coyote video of each in their wild setting and asking them to identify which is the mammal and which is a fish. They would almost certainly tell you the dolphin is a fish.
Or, more to the point, if I showed someone whose never seen either before a docked Switch and a Vita and asked them to pick which one is the portable and which one is the home console what would they say?
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