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

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Hardstuck-Platinum said:

SuperJortendo said:

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

So now we're using multiple controllers and local multiplayer to define what makes a handheld into a home console hybrid. Well according to my research, most Philips CDi systems did not launch with multiplayer ports or support local multiplayer, only some newer models did. Do we just disqualify most Philips cdi's from existence as home consoles because they didn't support multiple controllers and have local mutiplayer? No, of course not. That would be silly

Yes, we actually should do that, because it wasn't even intended as a games console in the first place. Sony actually manufactured even a CD-i discman. The Philips system was Compact Disc interactive multimedia player. It did have games, but games clearly wasn't how the system was intended to be used.