> Videogame consoles are typically not marketed as general purpose computers.

Video game consoles have been crippled so that it would be misleading to market them as general purpose computers.

However, the videogame industry in its entirety was dead-lifted from its premature grave by one "Nintendo Family Computer".

> However, the videogame industry in its entirety was dead-lifted from its premature grave by one "Nintendo Family Computer".

Consoles maybe, but I don't think that the early 8/16-bit microcomputers were affected by the crash of 1983, and in any case the crash was mostly a US phenomenon with minor effects on other regions.

How is a general purpose computer defined? In any case this argument is moot, the point is that once you purchase something, it's yours and no vendor locks and restrictions should be put on it. You are limiting my choices as a consumer by not letting me access multiple stores or modify the hardware.

I don’t think iPhones are marketed as general purpose computers either, yet here we are with the EU now regulating iOS and soon iPadOS.

Nintendo Switch doesn't even have an easily accessible Internet browser.

In fact, I was not even sure it had one. I had to look it up and found this: https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/how-to-use-hidden-ninte...

It would be difficult to make a case that the average user would see this as a general purpose computer.

It absolutely is a general purpose computer, one with it's capabilities hidden and restricted from the user.

It is a general purpose computer, except the "general purpose" part has been hidden and restricted from the user.

Therefore, not a "general purpose" computer anymore.

It is a general purpose computer running a specialized operating system. Something doesn't stop being a general purpose computer when you change the OS.

Interesting.