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The_Yoda on 06 December 2024
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Hardstuck-Platinum said:
Phenomajp13 said:

The crazy part is that you don't even see how ridiculous you look for pushing back at something the companies that created these devices are calling them. Who are the people that disqualify them from being hybrids? Sony calls PSP a handheld, why do you get to determine the creators are wrong? Nintendo calls Switch a portable home console.

Why do you get to determine if the creators are right? It's free for interpretation

LOL this has been something to read in an otherwise slow week so thank you all.

Personally outside of the Gameboy I have never been a fan of portable systems.  Even the Gameboy I bought the cumbersome add on that used a magnifying glass, had a couple lights against the display, and added a couple speakers to make that system more enjoyable to play and playable in the dark.

I use the switch 99.99% docked.  I like to play on the TV. I have extra docks at most of the TV's in the house.  I can start playing a game in the living room, move up to the office and then move into my bedroom if I want to.  I can move from room to room with it as simply as just picking it up off one dock and placing it on another.  No fiddling with cables because I have extra docks. Hell depending on the game I can do that without ever even pausing the game let alone power cycling the system as I move from room to room. TO ME it is a home console with portable functionality that I very rarely use. Hybrid seems a fitting term since it can be different things to different people. It's free for interpretation to each person to use it as a portable, a home console, or a hybrid of both uses.

Hybrid

2.
a thing made by combining two different elements; a mixture.
in this instance a device that easily offers a mixture playability in a fixed location on a larger screen or on the go

End of the day I do not believe it is anything more than an unimportant matter of semantics. Use the Switch to play as you want to play as long as you don't want to play VR.