Pemalite said:
It's literally just a portable device.
Mobile form factor designed to be used in your hands.
Built in display for mobile gaming.
Wireless connectivity to live that cabled free life.
Built in battery to be played on the go.
Mobile SOC optimized for power consumption over pure performance.
And it connects to a dumb USB-C dock for charging and video output, just like every single laptop, tablet and phone does in 2025.
It's a handheld in it's purest form.
It looks like a handheld, it plays like a handheld, it sounds like a handheld (With tiny speakers), it's probably a handheld.
The hardware limitations of the Switch definitely still exist, relative to fixed consoles and PC's... It's not pushing high fidelity 4k, 60fps on a TV.
And that difference has always existed between mobile devices and fixed hardware because you cannot push the clockrates and power consumption in a handheld.
Thus far you haven't really given a logical rebuttal on why it's not a pure handheld. It even uses mobile (CPU+GPU+Ram) chipsets for christ sake. |
The "well the hardware is mobile so it's a portable device" argument is really exhausting tbh. Because we all implicitly understand that what makes a console portable or not has much more to do with how the hardware is utilized rather than what the hardware is.
EXAMPLES: The Zilog Z80 microprocessor was used in several home consoles (Master System, ZX Spectrum, Colecovisions) and all of those consoles are considered home consoles. It was also used in an arcade cabinet (Pacman) which is not considered a home console, but an arcade cabinet. It was also used in a portable console (Game gear) which is not considered a home console or an arcade cabinet, and was ALSO used inside graphing calculators which aren't even considered videogame consoles.
Is the Master System a calculator? Is the TI-83 a game console? Is the Game Gear an arcade cabinet? You tell me.
