That's pretty spot on!

A home video game console, or simply home console, is a video game device that is primarily used for home gamers, as opposed to in arcades or some other commercial establishment. Home consoles are one type of video game consoles, in contrast to the handheld game consoles which are smaller and portable, allowing people to carry them and play them at any time or place, along with microconsoles and dedicated consoles.

Nobody really called Wii U hybrid because it did not offer full handheld experience, you couldn't go out and play it. But Switch offers full handheld experience and full home console experience, it's basically hybrid of handheld and home console in one devaice, it can be used like real home console or like real handheld.

So Schrödinger's console? Truly a mystery of science.

The Switch is a hybrid, since it can be played as both.Or if you wanna go by the official definition, its a home console.

I personally dont like when people say "Its OBVIOUSLY a handheld" and I hate when people say the Switch is a tablet.

Nobody is trying to pass it a home console to make it seem like its a bigger success than it is.We are just stating what the Switch is, which is a hybrid.It can be played as a normal home console, on a screen, while you sit on the couch.Or can beplayed as a handheld, which you can bring whener you go.

I dont undersatnd why people want to keep pressing this narrative of "Switch is obviuosly a handheld".My god, is it really that hard to see?I mean, you can considder it as a handheld or a home console, since you can play exclusively as one or the other.Thats your option.But the Switch is clearly a hybrid, since it has the function of both.

I feel like this misconception will prolong itself for some years, until the Switch, or its conception, becomes a norm.

lol

Thats actually pretty spot on.

Fine, most of us lol.

Kerotan and Jranation are outliners

Miyamotoo did too

He literally made an entire thread about it

Theere is no drama here.Im just trying to clear this misconception about the Switch.If you see a nice conversation as a drama, its because you want to see it as one.

Now, it should be noted that exceptions should be excluded.There will be always people that are too enthusiastic about their consoles of choice for their own good, like Jranation, Kerotan and Dr. Vita.It should go without saying that, outside of a few situations, they will always try to spin the news and information in their favor.

Having said that, the Switch is clearly a hybrid.I dont understand how people cannot understand this.You can see it as a handheld or a home console in the sense that you use exclusively as it is, but the console is designed to be both.Being a home console or a handheld is not defined by where the main hardware is, as one user believes, but rather how that hardware is used and is designed to be used.The problem with your Vita example is that first of all, when you buy a vita it doestn come with a Vita TV.Its two separate products.If you classify that as a hybrid product, I could say the same about PCs and laptops.If I have both, would that then make my PC a hybrid?Of course not.Second point is that the Vita TV is a half assed product.I dont mean in the sense that games doesnt feel like a home console experience, but rather that the hardware itself is not up to snuff, as in very few games actually work with it.

For the Switch though, its the complete oposite.Both its sidesare considered equaly.It was designed as such from the get go.Its not a handheld, its not a home console, and not even a tablet(If the form a product defined what it was, definition of a word nowadays would be such a choes lol).It is,what is is because ofhow it was designed to do things and not by its form factor or by how much teraflops it has.

Yeah, Miyamotoo can also be a bit too extreme.Dr. Vita is also one such example of extremist.