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? |
I would argue the WiiU was a true hybrid as it was a fixed home console, that allowed you to play away from the TV with a mobile display, albeit with limited range.
The Switch is designed as a mobile device first and foremost, it's actually a fantastic mobile device, the fixed-console aspect however is comparatively poor and more of a feature added "just because they can".
