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Norion on 11 July 2025
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Hardstuck-Platinum said:
Norion said:

Because that was the other category to place it in and as I said the console category made more sense since the handheld one was becoming irrelevant, people were naturally way more interested in seeing how it would perform compared to the PS4 and Xbox One than the Vita and 3DS. How it's classified here has zero bearing on it being a traditional console or not. It's objectively not a traditional one since a hybrid sort of device clearly isn't that. And I actually have argued this sort of point before with at least one Nintendo fan. 

Also do you really not see how the bolded could apply both ways and thus means nothing? "The Switch is not in the console category because it's both a console and a handheld. It can function as a handheld when not in the dock so it is classified as one on this website." would be just as silly and meaningless of a statement if it was in the handheld category.

Actually, I've realised I don't even need to talk about the Switch. I think that by the time GTA 6 launches Xbox will be so dead and gone that PS5 will get practically all the sales boost from GTA6 launch. It will then become clear that the traditional console sales model is not dead and doing just fine. 

Replying to what's in bold - yes I know that's why I put "console" and "traditional console" in quotation marks. I don't consider it a console at all and only a handheld that can be played on a TV

Who has said it's dead? What was said is that they're not selling as well as they used to and that PC has been taking more sales from that market which are just observable facts. It'll keep doing fine for now though somewhat declining but I do think things could get tricky for that market next decade since Xbox has massively shifted focus away from selling hardware so future Xbox devices should sell even less and the PS6 could be a bit of a tough sell considering how much it'll likely cost, how long the PS5 will keep keeping most big games for, that it won't get its own GTA game and how much people under 20 prefer PC over traditional console nowadays.

And in that case just say what you actually believe from the get go. Like for me I think of it partly as a console but mainly a handheld device. You don't have to go along with how it's categorized here even putting aside that there was a good reason why that happened.