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Otter 1 day ago
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Pemalite said:

The Switch is a handheld, pure and simple.

It looks like a handheld, performs like a handheld, has handheld components (ARM SoC, battery, display, wifi etc') and has hand-held only variants without any HDMI output over USB C.

The Switch is a handheld that can output games to a TV, which is literally no different to Tablets, Laptops, Phones and even devices like the PSP, Sega Nomad.

If the Switch is a Hybrid, then so is the WiiU and so are all the other devices listed above... My phone comes with a USB cable and will connect to a display out of the box using said cable.

The Switch is a handheld and a home console, I'm not sure what doctrine you'd be referring to suggest otherwise. But please link me to the documents, I can link to the official documentation which refers to Switch as a home console. 

Speaking of your phone, nothing about your phone is designed as a "home console", a specific term designated to dedicated gaming machines which are played at home and connected to TV.

Nothing from your mobile makers suggest it to primarily used as a gaming device connected to the TV. Simply having USB c support does not suffice. The sooner you guys accept that these terms are made up and dictated by the literally makers of the devices & industry norms, the sooner you'll accept that Nintendo labelling their system a "home console" and designing it around this use, means more than anyone saying "but it has a screen" lol I'm sorry...

There is literally a disclaimer for switch lite that only Switch games with portable play will work, meaning the base machine has allocations exclusively to docked play. PS Vita TV uses a mobile chip but that doesn't make it handheld. So many non mobile devices uses mobile chips including desktop PCs.

Yet everything from the form factor (joycons), different power profiles, the inclusion of a dock, HDMI to HMDI cable and intended use show Switched is intended to function as both. The insistence that a device cannot be both is an arbitrary line, outlined by who? 

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