160rmf said:
Uh... yeah? Wasn't the whole point of a Hybrid is having a full experience of a home console and a handheld on the same device? So, there you have it. Two features that you won't find in any of these devices that you listed or any handheld. Making the Switch a different product Hasn't this conversation derailed enough this thread already? |
So the Xbox 360 and Nintendo 64 are hybrid devices going by your definition?
Keep in mind that Local Multiplayer on a single device has existed across all platforms irrespective of form factor.
| javi741 said: Calling a phone and a tablet just as much as a hybrid as a Switch is stupid. Just cause you technically could connect them to a TV doesn't make it valid to say its a hybrid equivalent to the Switch. The Switch is far more seemless in connecting to a TV and comes with a dock and remotes that make playing on the TV still the definitive experience of the Switch. Nobody views a phone connecting to the TV a definitive experience to the slightest, or as seemless to really consider it being close to the Switch at all. It's far less seemless, doesn't include controls that make using a phone on a TV as a primary focused feature. |
Anyone who owned a Nokia Lumia/Microsoft Lumia with Microsoft Continuum understands that "Docking" and "outputting" to an external display is *exactly* the same as how the Switch operates.
Are those phones Hybrids?
And yes. They include controls.
My Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra has an S-Pen which has "Gesture" controls thanks to a built in Gyroscope.
My Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra has voice control.
Is my Samsung Galaxyt S23 Ultra a hybrid? If not? Why not? It has a dock, it has a built in input device that I can separate from the main unit.
https://www.techradar.com/opinion/the-galaxy-s23-ultras-glorified-stylus-finally-deserves-to-be-called-s-pen
And if you still class my S23 Ultra as "Just a Phone" despite having technically the same "features" as the Nintendo Switch, then the Switch is "Just a tablet".
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