Actually, Nokia marketed it's Symbian devices as mobile computers.

I'm going to say this again for the last time then I'm gonna try to enjoy Thanksgiving and pretend you don't exist for a day or two.

The PSP does what the Switch does as a home console only in the sense that it can be played on a TV. And even then, it's only later models that are able to do so with an extra peripheral, and it's still lacking everything else most people consider important in a home console experience.

It doesn't have the ability to connect multiple controllers. There will be no local multi-player unless someone else brings their own PSP and you play on wifi or something. If you have the cable to connect the PSP to the TV and don't have any wireless controllers then you can only use the PSP as a controller, which is connected to a short cable to the TV. Not a comfortable experience. 

I'm sure there are other reasons I can't think of right now, but this debate is so pointless. Lol. Happy Thanksgiving everybody who celebrates it

Indeed, just look at the software. Theres not a single game for psp that support multiple controllers for a local multiplayer experience, wich we can only have on home consoles. Split screen? None. Would you tell that Just dance and fit games can be played on handhelds?

And talking about controllers, theres isnt a controller exclusively made to sync on a psp

But i already said that in many threads with the same subject. It's pointless to bring sense to this discussion

Yeah, Switch lite is a handheld only, but i already pointed here that if theres will, all home consoles can be turned as portables. They will be the same system but under a different funcionality.

It doesnt exclude that only Switch can transicionate of a full fledged home console to a handheld seamless, if we cant say that's hybrid i don't know how else we could classify this, bc a handheld with a cable that connects to TV it aint

It's about time that people can evolve the idea that home console videogames characteristic is just not be a handheld 

So now we're using multiple controllers and local multiplayer to define what makes a handheld into a home console hybrid. Well according to my research, most Philips CDi systems did not launch with multiplayer ports or support local multiplayer, only some newer models did. Do we just disqualify most Philips cdi's from existence as home consoles because they didn't support multiple controllers and have local mutiplayer? No, of course not. That would be silly

Yes, we actually should do that, because it wasn't even intended as a games console in the first place. Sony actually manufactured even a CD-i discman. The Philips system was Compact Disc interactive multimedia player. It did have games, but games clearly wasn't how the system was intended to be used.

It's classified as a home console. All the collectors who have them, have them as consoles. A console having a primary multimedia focus doesn't disqualify it from console status. Intention doesn't matter, function does. Why does everyone keep thinking intention overrides function. 

Thats because they are archaic and limited.

Its like excluding gameboy as handheld for not having touch-screen.

Again, home consoles are able to have multiple controllers to play on a single display connected to the main system.

That's why games developed with that funcionality in mind can't be ported on handhelds.

Cut the straw man

By that logic, all the game centric computers were consoles - and as many people have pointed out about Switch, it does function as home console and people are using it as such. 

Computers have operating systems and multiple uses, that's why they're in a different category. I don't see how reverse logic on my statement would mean computers would become consoles. A computer cannot function as a console because a computer cannot function without an operating system, a console can. If you want to say switch functions as a console because it can be played on a TV, then you have to say PSP and Sega nomad do as well because they can be played on TV too.  

The argument became "Switch is console hybrid because of multiple controllers and local multiplayer, and PSP and nomad can't do that". Well if not having that means your not a console, the majority of all CD-I's out there don't classify as consoles. 

Are my innards not composed of metals, plastics, raw materials and chemicals?
So what if my plastic exterior design differs from others.
Do I not play games, is there something that excludes me from the "Big Three"?

Hybrid I was born, capable of being played indoors and outdoors.
Why does my success bring tears to the insecure?

A console I am, I console I will be, dedicated, exclusionary.
Broken the record will be, in the market I found my niche.
Don't tell me what I am, don't tell me what I ain't,
I am me, a console, a hybrid, a Switch.