Sega nomad did the same as the PSP for TV out where you had to hold it in your hands while playing. Bonus points was you could plug in a 2nd controller for two player.

PSP GO is more akin to the Switch than the other PSP models. You can dock it to a tv and use a real sixaxis controller for better comfort and control. I still use my GO that way.

@Light- thats nice.

"The Switch seamlessly and without interruption switches contexts from TV" The concept is the same though.
What you are saying is moot.

Where they suppose to be dated? Why would it be less technical then from 2009? It is expected for it to be advanced enough to be seamless, that doesn't remove the fact that you are outing to a TV, simply Switch is doing it better, not first.

"You also don't have to hold the entire console in your hands, and this is all done without wires"

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my b, my b lol

The PSP GO can do this too.

"the Super Nintendo had a Gameboy Color adapter called the Super Gameboy that allowed you to play the games on a TV way back in 1994"

That allowed you to play Gameboy games on TV, that didn't turn your Gameboy literally into a device that could play it off the TV.

Darth is correct as the Sega Nomad did the same thing as PSP, as Switch etc.

"What's original about it is that it is perfectly designed to be both a home console and a portable"

Back in 2009, same can be stated about PSP. Switch techonlaogically being better is MOOT to the concept of what is being done.

By default it will be more advanced.

If PSP3 comes out and has the Cradle packed in and uses a OLED screen, you going to say thats "original" even though the Switch is that minus the screen type?

We are not saying they are SPEC BY SPEC the same, we are simply saying they are doing the same things.

"work as both"

Well the PSP could too back in 2009 bud.

Switch isn't even playing demanding games that you see on PS4 or XONE, its playing last gen games.

Just like PSP was playing PS1 and PS2 type games lol

" You had to sit there with" Thats nice. This isn't about "how" its done, this is simply about it being able to be done at all bud.

Not sure why your splitting hairs LMFAO! BOTH could play portable games on the TV.

Thats like being as stupid as saying 2 TVs are not doing the same thing be like "Vizio TVs was not designed to be played that way, though. You had to sit there with it in your hands and turn the power on the remote with the left side, not da right doe"

Yes, oh yes..VASTLY different /s

But being higher fidelity while outing to the TV IS new, though.

Oh please, Sony's crap handhelds were never in the same league as the switch is now and dude the novels you write when you get shut down are hilarious, you know no-one reads that mess right.

Sega Master System portable played WIRELESS on TV ages ago

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It's the combination of features that makes it original. Taking a single feature by itself doesn't scratch the surface of what it can do.

Are you going to tell me that a peanut butter pizza isn't original because cheese pizza exists and PB&Js exist? Sometimes, originality is determined by the combination of features provided.

@EDMIX - utilizing a feature that was added at a later date is not the same as something that was built with it from day one. That's like saying that the PS Vita + PS4 accomplishes the same thing as a Switch. While it's similar and can replicate *some* features, it's still vastly different (not to mention a hell of a lot more expensive).

I don't know why you try so hard to put down the Switch. We get it, it's not for you. You don't need to put on such a production about it. Just be happy with your PS4s (and 4 or 5 PS3s or whatever you said you have) and move on. No sense in putting other people down because they don't share your same tastes and opinions. I would hate to live in a world if we all thought and acted the same as you did.

You don't ALWAYS have to be right, so stop hammering home points that aren't relevant.

why would you even link a video of the psp? thats not "original" either considering Nintendo's own GAMEBOY games have played on TV screens since before playstation even existed as a brand.

Don't forget the Neo Geo X that did the who portable to TV thing as well.

Sega Nomad had this capability ages ago long before PSP. You could even plug in another controller.

@LightofDarkness

You just proved his point. It's not original. It's an improved idea but not original. Besides, most ideas in this day and age are far from original.

@big_dom
Edmix's number one problem with Nintendo is that the word Sony doesn't appear anywhere in the name. That's it. It would be revolutionary if it did have that name.

Clearly you youngsters haven't heard of the Sega Nomad...

Many devices have clearly done this before and reading the comments it's even more devices that I even realized like I didn't know the Neo Geo had something like that.

@neo- if they got put down by my comment that's their emotional issue not mine.

At the end of the day there's a bunch of systems that I've done this before I mean consider that many of the comments are stating even the PSP in regards to concept is unoriginal do you see me crying? No because the Neo Geo clearly did it because the Sega Nomad did it before and even in different concepts the Gameboy player did it so at the end of the day it's not as if I'm saying it's only the PSP I'm saying other devices have actually done this.

So to be clear this is simply about its unoriginality.

Conceptually it essentially is just a more advanced version of those older Concepts and there's nothing wrong with that I mean consider the PlayStation 4 is just a more advanced concept that we've already had for the last 15 plus years.

Nothing's wrong with that either.

Mind you I actually still plan to purchase the switch because I enjoy my PSP and I understand this concept because it's exactly what I do verbatim with my PSP anyway.

So the method of connecting it is not even relevant to me at the end of the day the concept of playing on my television is something I'm familiar with with handheld devices like my PSP.

I mean some of you guys legitimately need to stop getting your feelings hurt because of this device basically having a function that several other Portables have had.

I mean nothing is really wrong with that I would argue that's why I'm even buying the switch because of how much I liked that feature on PSP I actually didn't even buy the Vita simply because of one of the reasons was that it lacked that functionality. I actually ended up buying a 3DS instead 😂😂😂

Sooooo yea. Stop getting your feelings hurt because people won't Proclaim this as revolutionary. It's not bad but by no means is it original and by no means are they the first to ever do this concept.

I hate them so much I bought the 3DS? I hate them so much I'm buying the switch because of this feature that I enjoyed on other platforms?

Ok folks.

If so many Nintendo fans love Nintendo why didn't they buy the Wii U? Or was that me too? 😁

You guys need to understand that there's lots of Nintendo fans that very much are going to criticize the company and are very realistic on how they feel about this device will also still being a fan of the device, that doesn't actually mean I need to go around praising it or inducting myself into the cult.

I'm simply not exaggerating its features. I mean I'm not telling you there's a single thing revolutionary about PlayStation 4 because there isn't there's absolutely nothing revolutionary about that platform but that's generally why I like it it's simply just an evolution of what I'm familiar with and I'm completely fine with that.

Consider I'm also fine with that with the switch.

Once again so we're clear I'm simply confirming that this is not original by any stretch of the imagination but I'm also never stating anything remotely as if PlayStation 4 is 100% original in concept it very much is not.

I mean looking at the comments even the PSP outing to the TV wasn't original....