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

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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.

You can connect a laptop to a screen with hdmi, is it any less a gaming PC at that point. Connecting a phone to a screen with the proper software, DEX on Samsung or whatever makes it at the very least a chrome book. The phone are so much more powerful than what the mobile OS's and mobile apps need these days. They are practically as powerful as laptops, in fact my phone spec wise is more powerful than many of the entry level and mid range laptops I was recenrly browsing double the specs, they just don't have windows. And if a phone is a chrome book, a chrome book is a laptop and a laptop is a PC then a phone is a PC. 

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