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

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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  

I'm going to say this again for the last time then I'm gonna try to enjoy Thanksgiving and pretend you don't exist for a day or two.

The PSP does what the Switch does as a home console only in the sense that it can be played on a TV. And even then, it's only later models that are able to do so with an extra peripheral, and it's still lacking everything else most people consider important in a home console experience.

It doesn't have the ability to connect multiple controllers. There will be no local multi-player unless someone else brings their own PSP and you play on wifi or something. If you have the cable to connect the PSP to the TV and don't have any wireless controllers then you can only use the PSP as a controller, which is connected to a short cable to the TV. Not a comfortable experience. 

I'm sure there are other reasons I can't think of right now, but this debate is so pointless. Lol. Happy Thanksgiving everybody who celebrates it