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Pemalite on 03 December 2023
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160rmf said:
Pemalite said:

...You mean like a Nintendo 64? Xbox 360?

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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