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

[Hiku]

Hardstuck-Platinum said:

Hiku said:

I think that's a good point, which highlights a drawback that affects the console portion of the system that wouldn't be there under normal circumstances. Limited power draw can affect the systems potential performance.
In other words, Switch would have likely been more powerful if it was released only as a console.

I also consider Switch primarily a handheld for that reason, among others.
Though I don't rule it out as also being a console despite it having such a drawback due to its portable nature.

If your not willing to rule out Switch as a console, then what about the Sega Nomad or the PSP. Both could connect to the TV and perform similar to a Switch. This is my point. If you say Switch is a console, you have to say the Sega Nomad and PSP are, for the sake of consistency and i think that is a fair thing to say. 

When I think of a console experience, what I feel the PSP was missing is partially the lack of convenience of not being sold as such (the cable for the TV not included), but also primarily that it doesn't come with a controller. By controller I mean something at least somewhat ergonomic for its time.

There's only a handheld experience when controlling the PSP.
Due to the form factor and the one "analogue stick" (which was more like a nub) not being something you'd expect from a console experience in that era.

If Switch wasn't sold with the dock, and it didn't come with the thing that lets you connect the joycons into a controller, I wouldn't consider it a console. Switch Light was such a product, and I consider that variant only a handheld.

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