The PSP could connect to a TV, does that make it a home console?

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Hardstuck-Platinum said:

V-r0cK said:

I used my PSP as a home console for quite a bit when I was using the PSP Go docked and using a Dualshock 3 controller.

.....But it was never actually intended or marketed to be one, so I would say that it isn't. It was simply a handheld device that had an option to connect to TV but wasn't part of Sony's focus.

Was the Switch the first to be a handheld gaming device that could hook up to the TV to be used like a home console? No. But they are the first to market it as handheld and home console, and focused their entire generation based off that feature.

So, Sony went to all the trouble investing money into a feature that allowed you to hook up your PSP to the TV (with a DS3 controller no less), but you feel it's invalid compared to the switch because you feel it wasn't marketed well enough or was successful enough. The marketing/success is irrelevant. Sony invested money into a feature to be used by people. We can't invalidate that just because we feel the marketing wasn't right or it's success doesn't warrant mentioning it. 

The marketing IS relevant, though. Sony themselves didn't see the feature as something worth marketing, which is why (I'm guessing) most PSP owners didn't know about it.

It wasn't designed with TV support in mind (as is evidenced by the lack of TV output with the launch model) and it wasn't designed to be a home console on the go (as is evidenced by the lack of TV output with the launch model, no controllers included with the system, nowhere to plug in controllers for local multi-player, etc.). There is no reason to think of it as anything other than a handheld you could play on your TV.

The Switch functions fully as a (admittedly underpowered) home console, it just also gives the option to use it as a handheld. The system was designed to take advantage of this functionality. 

They are not the same.