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EricHiggin 22 hours ago
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Hardstuck-Platinum said:
EricHiggin said:

So you're saying the PS5 Portal makes the PS5 a handheld or hybrid? It doesn't come with the PS5 but it works with it to allow you to play PS5 games away from your tv or console.

Not enough of a distance? What if someone buys a separate range extender for their wireless router so they can game from another building down the street? Sounds mobile enough then to me.

Whether Nin went to the trouble of housing everything in the main body or not, using a cable or wireless adapter to connect to the tv, it still does so out of the box. Switch Lite shouldn't count technically, but since all Switch sales are combined, there's really nothing you can do but accept it as part of the total.

We're talking about single functioning products here. With your example it reads like, Is a motorbike a boat just because it can fit on one and be sailed around? no of course not. The PS portal is not a single functioning product so it is irrelevant. Cables do not count as single functioning products, they just count as part of the package of a single functioning product. Your saying we can't include the PSP with the Switch because it requires a cable and the cable is another product entirely. A cable is not a single functioning product and can not detract from the fact that the PSP can connect/be played on a TV in exactly the same way a switch can.

The first PSP model can't connect to TV. Later PSP's can but they didn't even come with the TV connection cable did they? I thought that was an extra accessory. If PSP can't connect to a TV without later revisions, plus something extra, then it's really no different than my PS5 Portal point.

PS5 isn't a VR device. You can buy the extra VR set and make the PS5 a VR device, but VR set, the Portal, or a cable, are useless on their own. Switch came with everything you needed for home or mobile play out of the box, because the main selling point is that it can do both, no extra's, no hassle.

You could try and say PSP is the second best selling hybrid ever, but I doubt many would agree.