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Hardstuck-Platinum 2 days ago
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SuperJortendo said:
Hardstuck-Platinum said:

I know, but it doesn't matter what it's "sold as". Just because Sony didn't show the feature as a selling point to the consumers, doesn't mean it can be discounted as having the same feature as the switch

How about the fact that the Switch can be played on the TV out of the box with no add ons needed?

So we can't consider the PSP a home console because it required you to buy an extra cable, whereas the switch didn't?

Mnementh said:
Hardstuck-Platinum said:

I see a lot of people claiming the NSW is a home console because it connects to a TV via a passthrough box. Well, the PSP could also connect/be played on a TV via a cable. If you consider the NSW a home console because it connects to a TV via passthrough, then you must be consistent and consider the PSP a home console too. What do you think about this, and people being inconsistent with their views towards PSP and NSW both being "home consoles", even when they had the same feature. 

You can connect a lot of phones to TVs too, but they are seen as mobile devices. What matters is not so much what is theoretically possible, but more how people actually use it. The PSP was mostly used mobile, so it is a handheld. The Switch is actually used by many connected to the TV, while others use it mobile. Which makes it a hybrid. Some japanese played the WiiU on the train, but it was used by most in the household, so it is not a mobile device. What matters is not so much what could be theoretically done, but more what it is actually used for.

Well according to everyone on this site (and Xbox lol)  phones are home consoles too then. 

KLXVER said:

The first PSP model couldnt play games on a TV. Its a handheld that they with later models made able to connect to a TV. The Switch was made with that in mind.

I know but that doesn't change that they have the same feature and must be thought of in a similar way

AddRat said:

It depends on its sales.

If the PSP was currently close to 150m, was still being produced and had a very real chance of passing 160m, it would be a handheld, a console, a hybrid and a toaster.

Trying to say that Nintendo fans are comparing it things they shouldn't because of it's sales?