Pajderman said:
Pemalite said:
It's a mobile device. - The fact it can dock, doesn't change that fact.
My Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra has a dock and interfaces with my display, it's actually one of the benefits of USB-C.
In-fact if I go back to something like the old Lumia 950XL you had the Microsoft Display dock which turned the phone into essentially a PC using continuum.
Phones and Tablets have docks and predate the Switch's docking technology. - My tablet is always docked in the kitchen, it never leaves it, I use it for fire alerts.
But they are still mobile devices.
But what reinforces the Switch being a mobile device and not a home fixed console or even a hybrid is that, regardless that is has a touch display, mobile SoC, battery and can be taken outside of the home...
It is the Switch Lite. Which can't do any of that anyway, |
I'm curious, to me this sound more like an argument against the possibility of a hybrid console than against the switch being one. Is it possible to imagine a hybrid console at all? How would a console work in order to be able to be called a hybrid console instead of a mobile one? |
Well SEGA Nomad was a Genesis that could dock to the TV and be taken portable. So they crammed a console in a handheld. Played regular Genesis carts. So there is a hybrid around console hardware. In 1995 is was impressive even if the 32 bit era was about to kick off.
