Sony and Nintendo are in competition. But are they really?

[TeachMeHisty]

Mnementh said:

TeachMeHisty said:

What exactly is a "personal computer" anyways. What defines such a system, what causes it to be differenciable from other systems?

Honestly interested.

(...)  In that sense the term includes tablets, phones and video game consoles, all computers used as a personal device. (...)

Wouldnt that effectively mean that there is no such thing as a "pc-handheld", because gameing systems - the way they are currently build - are PCs from the start?

To this day I was mainly under the assumption that PC or personal computer simply refered to system, which the enduser has (almost) full control over its design (CPU, GPU, RAm type an amount, etc.) and that personal computer comes from personalized computer