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Hardstuck-Platinum on 04 December 2024
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OneTime said:
Hardstuck-Platinum said:

well I think the truth is what matters not perception, but you are free to perceive things how you want of course. 

The super Game Boy was just a SNES cartridge with a slot for Gameboy games in it. How is that even remotely comparable? A cartridge can't function alone like the PSP/Switch/Nomad/ROG ally. Truth be told though, the Super game boy is a true hybrid system. The Gameboy cartridge used the extra power of the Snes to enhance it's games. That is what proper hybrid technology looks like, and I don't know why that concept is so hard for people to grasp. The Switch dock is just a phoney piece of plastic compared to the Super Game Boy. 

I think this thread pretty much shows that nearly everyone thinks the Switch counts as both a home console and a portable console.  There seems to be some consensus that PSP wasn't ever sold as a home console, although there was an adaptor (crucially: sold separately) that could connect it to a TV.

Obviously I'd argue that with modern portable hardware being so good, the distinction is no longer as relevant as it was when the choice was GameBoy or SNES.  So probably one of the models of iPhone is the best selling console ever...

Whether a "hybrid console" needs more than a plastic dock is a slightly more interesting question.... If you're going to add more chips, they'll always be put into the portable section of the device - even if they are switched off in portable mode.  So I don't think there will ever be a hybrid console that fits that definition.

I can see that, but I'm arguing that the people here are viewing the Switch the same way a Russian views a baseball bat. Baseball bats are really only perceived and used as weapons by everyone in Russia as they don't play baseball, but it doesn't change that it's still just a bat for playing baseball. Being in the minority isn't a reason to be quiet. 

Phones aren't competing with consoles, Sony's stock suffered the most when the 360 was beating them, which was another console. you could argue phones compete with handhelds however. 

Never be one that fits that definition? They already exist. PC's and laptops in the past a feature where you could connect an external graphics cards to them via a cable and they would work in conjunction with them.   You can even use a wifi port I think. How hard would it be to allow people to connect a graphics card to a future switch dock?