• jj4211@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      Frankly, the Xbox One and the PS4 marked those vendors transition to ‘tiny prebuilts’, by the standards one might call this a ‘tiny prebuilt’.

      One could fairly argue that Switch is “just a gaming tablet/phone”

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 days ago

      I mean… What is a console, but a prebuilt running custom firmware and manufacturer’s OS? You can literally install Linux on a jailbroken PS5. Old consoles were obviously bespoke pieces of hardware that wouldn’t match any computer OS… But modern consoles are closer to prebuilt PCs than they are to old consoles.