Haha, perhaps the PSP Go finally got the aspect ratio and scaling correct. I know the regular model PSPs did not. I would have to see it in person though because a lot of times crappy scaling will look fine until you see it in person.

Also, I will admit that there's no such thing as a hybrid system. You are either a handheld or not. The Switch just so happens to be a very powerful handheld for it's time and pricepoint in 2017. But to answer your thread, no the PSP is not a home console. It is a handheld like the Switch. Why? Because it can be played on the go without any extra hardware. No, PSPortal is not a handheld. It needs external stuff to play that isn't included. It's just a screen.

What exactly have you succeeded in? You keep saying what everyone else failed at but you have nothing but failures on your resume as well. You haven't convinced anyone the Switch isn't a home console and no one has convinced you it is. Your whole point was trolling because it was always meant to just protect PS2 but don't worry the world will continue to compare them no matter how much it bothers you. If anything, things have gotten worse because when your nightmare happens (Switch outselling PS2), you will be one of the first posters we tag to gloat lol. Only thing you did was bring more attention to it. Sony labels them all as gaming systems, that is what invites the comparison. They are all gaming systems.

Because the Nomad's development history is different from that of the Switch. The Nomad is sort of a follow-up to the Mega Jet, a portable Genesis that was designed to be played on airlines (hence the name) and had AV out to connect to a plane's TV, but no screen of its own. The Nomad was designed to be fully self-contained handheld unit, but was conceived of and marketed as a way to play Genesis games on the go. The box itself says "Portable Game System," while the ability to connect to a TV is put third in a list of bullet points on the back rather than a front-and-center feature. AV connectors and the AC adapter were sold separately. And, as always, *batteries not included.

For people who wanted to play Genesis games at home rather than on the go, it was a lot cheaper to buy a Genesis. The Nomad was $179 when it launched in late 1995, plus however much the cables & adapters were. A Genesis could be purchased for $99 at that point. Basically, you would have had to really, really want to play Genesis games on the go to own a Nomad. Meanwhile, the Switch was designed from the ground up and marketed to be playable as both a handheld and home console. It had everything it needed to do both right out the box. It wasn't simply a handheld that just happened to have the option to connect to a TV. Rather, TV connectivity was a key feature. It was right there front and center. It's even in the name. You could easily "Switch" between handheld or TV mode.

Also, cool your jets with the victim complex. We don't lock threads over mere differences in opinion. Let's all be grown-ups here. We're talking about electronic toys here. It's not a matter of life or death.

By time the PS2 was released, you could buy DVD players for half the price of the PS2. DVD players had already been on the market for three years and had dropped significantly in price.

LOL this has been something to read in an otherwise slow week so thank you all.

Personally outside of the Gameboy I have never been a fan of portable systems.  Even the Gameboy I bought the cumbersome add on that used a magnifying glass, had a couple lights against the display, and added a couple speakers to make that system more enjoyable to play and playable in the dark.

I use the switch 99.99% docked.  I like to play on the TV. I have extra docks at most of the TV's in the house.  I can start playing a game in the living room, move up to the office and then move into my bedroom if I want to.  I can move from room to room with it as simply as just picking it up off one dock and placing it on another.  No fiddling with cables because I have extra docks. Hell depending on the game I can do that without ever even pausing the game let alone power cycling the system as I move from room to room. TO ME it is a home console with portable functionality that I very rarely use. Hybrid seems a fitting term since it can be different things to different people. It's free for interpretation to each person to use it as a portable, a home console, or a hybrid of both uses.

Hybrid

End of the day I do not believe it is anything more than an unimportant matter of semantics. Use the Switch to play as you want to play as long as you don't want to play VR.

I just don't see how things like, how it's listed on a box, what it's pricing was, how it's marketed is relevant. Different People/businesses can market the same things differently. You say the "switch" feature is in the name, but the Switch Lite exists, and that has no feature to play on TV. There was always going to be some differences between the Nomad and the switch, as one came over 20 years before the other. Switch was always going to a better handheld to TV experience being so much younger. It's just the concept that I think matters, and I can't help but be surprised how many people believe the Switch is genuinely unique but, I think it's the speed and simplicity of how it Switches to the TV that has really Wowed people and made people believe this is the first VIABLE handheld to TV platform   

Again why did you wait 7 years to ask and why does it even matter?

VGC isn't InstallBase where the mod team is on top of things. Over there your thread would have been nipped in the bud before any reports because the bad faith argument is so blatant right from the outset. But here the chances are high that nobody bothered to report your thread, because the Nintendo community here rarely does report threads and users. Since your thread has gone on for so long, it would require someone on the mod team to go through all the posts in order to define an appropriate punishment for you, but the usual course of action here would be to merely lock the thread and brush it under the rug with no punishment for you. This website has an overarching theme, whether it concerns the mod team or the community, of "don't really care anymore."

Long story short, the mod team's inaction does not imply, let alone confirm, that this isn't a troll thread.

You still haven't responded to my original post in a proper manner. I am not surprised you didn't, because I made an irrefutable argument.

The Switch is about to become the #1 selling console ever so he's already starting to make excuses to say it doesn't count... because... it's a handheld.

It's a pointless semantics debate.

"I made an irrefutable argument" yeah b/c saying somebody either has brain damage or is a troll is an irrefutable argument lol. [edit - i didn't like my og post.] Tho i do kinda agree this forum should recieve some moderation intervention, and be put to rest. Is there any way we can all just report it, and hope we get the attention of some moderators?