Are phones handheld game consoles?
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I'm curious if the answers to this would have been different if asked back before ads and/or microtransactions were the norm and every game cost $2-$5
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I voted no because a console has a singular purpose. C64 - not a console. N64 - a console. PS4 - almost not a console, but I doesn't have an office suite, a wide range of non-game titles (and I count media players in with games here), nor a widely available toolchain/SDK.
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Phones - have an office suite, a wide range of non game things, and several SDKs anyone can use. Hence not a console.
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I voted no because of the input. I want physical buttons ^^'
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I suppose that's a reasonable definition. What I find interesting about the answers to this + the switch is that apparently a lot of people think that a list of "Best selling handheld games" should include Breath of the Wild but not Angry Birds
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