Where is that image from as it looks like a mod? A lot of people mod those things. The Turbo link is a headphone jack on each side.

Could be a mod, been too long so I don't remember exact capabilites.

Either way it supported 2 player and used TG16 games.

The main point is the Nomad wasn't original, it borrowed heavy from Express.

Do your phone and tablet increase clock speeds when docked in order to provide increased resolutions? Anyway, the phone and tablet argument are ridiculous because they aren't even dedicated gaming consoles. 

The Switch's entire design was based upon it being both. The hardware is mobile hardware because that is the only way to make it both (The PS4 and Xbox One APU's draw too much power to become as portable as the Switch). You're suggesting mobile hardware = a portable game console, but this couldn't be further from the truth (especially when the PS4 and Xbox One consoles are based on laptop chipsets, yet they clearly are not portable consoles). 

The variant point is ridiculous. Is the Vita a home console because of the PS Vita TV? Does the GBA player make the GBA a home console? Heck, if they made a dock only Switch unit would your point become moot? I mean, your last sentence makes it pretty clear that the dockable incentive is driving purchases, meaning people are using the console for more than just portable gaming (there was some statistic out there that showed docked and portable play was almost equal amongst players). 

This isn't even taking into account that Nintendo themselves stated that they consider the Switch to be a home console first and foremost (which you can see from their software lineup). All in all, I just disagree with you. 

No, you're getting something wrong.

The question whether switch is a hybrid or not is a hardware question and the clock speeds are entirely software based.

Nintendo could very well remove all limitations tomorrow and the system would still work as intended.

You could argue about the clocks if the switch would actually overclock to a point the internal fan is not enough anymore

and additional cooling - provided by the dock - would be necessary to prevent it from breaking down, but thats not the case.

There is a clear cut difference between portables, hybrids and home consoles and switch is not, and will never be a hybrid if Nintendo continues

the existing design.

The change in cspeed is no different than configuring your laptop to have max brightness when connected to a power source and

lower brightness when running on battery.

Just like how a laptop/smartphone/etc. dont become a tower pc just because you pluged a power adapter, ethernet or hdmi cable in,

the switch doesnt become a home console.

Also portables are allowed to use external displaying units without changing their definition, just like how stationary systems wont change theirs if they use

integrated screens. (Arcademachines, non-gaming machines like switches, old PCs, etc.)

He's not wrong though. Switch is primerally a portable device that has ability to be docked. And repeating what Pemalite said.. all the technology in the console derives from mobile; from the SOC to the other components. The system is designed to be portable but has the advantage of displaying on an external display as it comes complete package; dock, cables and other accessories (Joycons).

I mean what do you call a laptop, a hybrid desktop? Nope its a portable PC.

The Switch is a hybrid, it is specifically designed to work at home or on the road. I play mine 99% of the time at home. It works just like a home console in that regard. But for those who play on the road, it works just like a portable. The system is a hybrid, plain and simple. Especially when it works as both straight out of the box with no extra accessories.

home consoles and pcs can use anything. That's makes them so versitile. You can put a single mobile chip in it or 3 dektop GPUs+CPUs,

the way you use them would not change. Try adding a dozent nvidia gtx 3090 to the switch.

Home consoles can use mobile or stationary hardware, portables must use mobil hardware.

That's what differenciates them hardware wise.

Vita TV is indeed a home consoles, the gba player does not make the gba a home console and a dock only switch would be a home console again.

What drives the incentive to purchase the switch plays no part in its definition and it is bad arguing on your part.

The same goes for what people are using it for. The only thing that matters is what it is intended to be used for and that's to be a portable that can

also be used like a home consoles. But being used like a home console and being one are not the same.

For example: you can use a car like an iron but it isnt one.

In general goes

portables are by definition allowed to be used like a stationairy system, but the cannot be one, because they will always be limited by the condition that

they have to be portable no matter what.

Marketing, just marketing and you totally fell for it.

The key word is "like".

Working "like" a home console =/= being a home console

Also correlation =/= causality

Think the other way around for once.

If being able to be used like a home console equals being one, then a cubic meter big home console would be a portable machine, because you can theoretically

put it on a truck you drive.

I think both of you are looking for something that simply cannot exist in an effort to dissuade others from accepting the hybrid monicker. Unless there is a huge revolutionary breakthrough in technology, there will not ever be a gaming console that has either separate hardware when docked or a separate cooling system. It simply isn't feasible. Doing so would effectively mean the dock is its own system (and may as well be played separately) as putting hardware in the dock just to connect to the portable unit would cause severe latency issues (due to it being away from the motherboard). Don't even get me started on the functionality of hooking up a new cooling system just for docked play...

Does the technology derive from mobile hardware? Absolutely, but that's a means to an end, not the whole story. Again, you would not be able to include stationary hardware in a portable unit with both a massive product and a massive battery (or short battery life). 

Also, I would absolutely suggest that a laptop has a more hybrid like design, and if tablets/smartphones had been created before laptops we would likely be suggesting they are hybrid units. The reason we dont is because it didn't happen chronologically, not because it wouldn't fit the definition. 

This doesn't even include other hybrid features such as the joycons disconnecting and reattaching as part of the design, games being made for solely portable or docked play, and it's relatively large design (in comparison to almost every other portable made in the last 30 years).

You start to get it.

portables and stationary systems are almostmutually exclusive to each other.

stationary = not portable

portable = not stationary

You can construct a hybrid system but you would have to do it on purpose.

You can use a main unit, which functions as the portable unit and can be used on its own.

And then you have a dock with additional hardware (cpu, gpu, ram, etc.) which the portable unit connects to.

To make that setup a hybrid system, you would have to let the main unit handle the OS stuff, game data and such but the hardware inside the dock does

the calculating. Best case would be if the hardware from the main unit could do stuff aswell like decompressing assets etc.

That would however require a very fast connection between dock and portable unit.

The joycons are just a design decision, they dont have any impact on the definition.

If having detachable controllers means something becomes stationary, then not detachable controllers would mean something

does not become stationairy. Does that mean that arcade machines are handheld hybrids?

The key point is, that portable devices were never meant to prevent the stationary use.

The point was to be independent from that context.

Every portable device is allowed to have features which make it possible to be used like a stationary, but they dont have to offer them.

I have my Switch connected to my home theater just like my ps4. They both function identically. It is a home console for me. For others, it is portable... e.g. it is a hybrid.  

It really is that simple.