Nintendo Switch is a microcosmic expression of the hybridization occurring across the planet

Nintendo Switch is a microcosm of the hybridization of the world at large: hybridization of human races, hybridization of human and alien races, and a general knowledge-explosion and melding of cultures.

Nintendo Switch is the future. To be able to play the same game any time, and anywhere, is revolutionary. Nothing that has come before has made it so easy and seamless. PS Vita came close, but Nintendo Switch has perfected the concept.

Will we see copycats from Microsoft and Sony? I'm skeptical. I believe, however, that NS is the future. We do not want to be confined when we game. If we want to play on the couch, we should be able to. If we want to play the same game in bed, we should be able to.

NS shouldn't be viewed as two separate things, but as a hybrid thing. Blade, the comic-book hero, was a human-vampire hybrid, and had none of their weaknesses while possessing all of their strengths. Of course, NS isn't exactly like Blade. It suffers from the weakness of its processing-power enforced by its form-factor.

The point is to view NS as a hybrid, like Blade, human-alien hybrids, Toyota Priuses, or laptops. If we judge Priuses from two separate vantage-points, yes, it fails as a gas-car, and it is certainly not a Tesla electric-car, but it is exceedingly cool because it's a hybrid.

Who knew laptops would be this popular? Back when I was growing up, laptops were expensive and unreliable. Nowadays, they are the dominant personal computer in the world. Laptops are also hybrids - a cross between a desktop-PC and the form-factor of a big book.

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