What happened to handhelds? Why are they all gay ass tablets now? I wanna hold the console in my hand and put it in my pocket, not some gay ass nerd backpack. Who fuck carries a $600+ handheld outside and plays it?
What happened to handhelds? Why are they all gay ass tablets now...
Unironically, rampant piracy killed them.
Not even slightly true, the Vita died long before it had a hacking scene
I thought most zoomer normies are weirdly tech illiterate and scared of console modding. Pretty sure the switch has homebrew and adding homebrew to the wii was piss easy.
chink companies are innovating a lot these days
it's just japanese ones that sit on their asses
but this might change in the near future
Graphics killed them, people kept wanting more snd more detailed games.
Games are so detailed now that sub 6 inch screens bottleneck visible details.
that was because of sony's response to the massive psp piracy scene
basically kneecapped their consoles success everywhere outside of japan
Smartphones and gacha happened
Nintendo decided to combine their handheld and console business, and gave us the worst of both worlds. Everyone else copied them.
and they arent handheld games anymore, just downscaled console games.
Something this size that can actually play new games will exist in my lifetime but I'll probably be too tired and old to care
that looks smaller than usual, granted it's been 12+ years since I've helda psp but something doesn't look right in that pic
Who wants to play some gay shit like fallout 4 outside? Is there no market for stylistically appealing games that are fun to play on a handheld anymore?
I thought gooks were supposed to be the smart ones.
What happened to handhelds
same as everything else people used to carry outside, smart phones made them obsolete
why would I carry a extra psp/ds around when I could just snap a gamesirs like controller on my phone and just emulate the psp instead
The tablet sized like deck on the other hand does justify carrying its extra weight around from the horse power and being able to play .exe games
They had to become huge to differentiate themselves from smartphones.
Who fuck carries a $600+ handheld outside and plays it?
I'm 6ft, 200lb, muscular and I carried my 'eck outside, I also carried my 'ock 20 10mm
Yeah you can get hot games on your smartphone like angry birds that show you ads every 30 seconds. I mean real games buddy.
the Vita died long before it had a hacking scene
If the Vita actually took off in the West, with a huge library of cool games to actually play, you bet your ass it would've been exploited/hacked (sooner than later). imo it was DoA and no one didn't want to say it until it was certain. Keep in mind I'm talking about it in regards to the West, it did pretty damn good in Japan iirc.
What happened to handhelds?
I think it has more to do with the chip platform. If you use the same chips with the same-ish sort of cooling, it'll all end up like a tablet/slab.
If anything, we're still sort of in that renaissance period of these smaller chink handhelds. It seems like there's a new one every other month, as well as one with a battery exploding like every other week lol.
only modern first party handheld is the playdate, unless you count the switch, and I don't
I use my phone + telescopic controller and use Winlator to play PC games on the go. Effectively close enough to an actual handheld.
Because anyone who wants those gets pointed towards mobile games (Even if they aren't even close to the same thing). Chinese emulation handhelds are where you have to go now for any sort of proper handheld, and even though it's not really pocketable the Switch is still a handheld at the end of the day.
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Phones are just better just buy a gamesir™ controller and play.
That anon is half right. Smartphones did make handhelds obsolete, but not because of games, but because they made the entire Internet available for people to access in a portable way, and video games/books/newspapers or whatever people used to use to pass the time during a quick trip were suddenly no longer necessary.
Modern handhelds are huge because they're not really made for day-to-day use anymore. It's not the thing you take out of your pocket to play for 10 minutes while you're a passenger in a car, or waiting for the bus. On these occasions, people simply use the Internet.
Phones became better. Therefore Handheld consoles had to be much better and therefore bigger, otherwise they would be no better than a phone.
I thought gooks were supposed to be the smart ones.
To be fair, I was advocating for a combination handheld/console back then, because they clearly couldn't support both with their first party offerings at that point. However this isn't what I wanted. I was thinking more like a dockable PSP, not a small iPad with two shitty controllers latched to it.
It's still a gay handheld.
If I saw u playing this outside, I'd think you're a huge faggot. Phones are also pretty fucking expensive. I already have a psp but I could get a new one for like $50 and put emulators on it
your opinion is irrelevant, playing games on your phone is normalize i see it everyday when i walk past this bus station and i see people with their phones out tapping and tapping
They're called phones fuckhead.
Yeah, the Playdate is pretty cool all things considered but you have to like the game offerings it has and how it's supported by what is a homebrew community outside of the 24 or however many titles you get when you buy the thing. Does it even have a "killer app"? I know there's a few small RPGs and puzzle games that get sold in itch.io for like $2 but that's about it.
I wouldn’t give a shit what you, a brown retard, thought about anything, let alone me.
Why would I carry around a handheld when I can just carry around a janky controller that is the exact size of a handheld, which I can crudely connect to my phone to play some of the worst games ever made
What happened to handhelds?
nintendomination, rampant piracy on sony platforms, microsoft was never interested in handhelds because they were trying to buy their way to the top of the console market
Why are they all gay ass tablets now?
they gotta get bigger for their power to keep increasing upwards and linearly
I wanna hold the console in my hand and put it in my pocket
buy a new 3DS (system model, not literally a new system) if you need something OEM
otherwise buy a chinky handheld from retroid
Who fuck carries a $600+ handheld outside and plays it
$300+ and apparently enough people that the nintendo switch is beating the PS2 in lifetime sales as the world's bestselling console ever
Yeah and they all look like retards AND faggots. U hear any ads while walking by?
I'm not brown and stinky, you seem pretty upset about the fact I called you retarded already. Train more before you face me and kiss my rings buddy.
this is normal now, whether you like it or not, also you sound insecure as fuck if you think taking out your phone outdoor makes you look like a fag.
No, but staring at it playing candy crush for 5 hours does.
he says this while F5'd Anon Babble for 12 hours a day.
Best you can get now is chinkhelds.
and stinky
Interesting that you added that yourself. Makes me think both things are definitely true.
Sony got greedy by using overpriced (and failure-prone) proprietary storage instead of the industry-standard microSD. People saw it and noped the fuck out.
I could rape you and get out in 7 years pal, you would only get out in 2 months, because you're brown AND stinky.
the only you be raping is your hand bro stop being so cringe fr fr
Brown, stinky, and homosexual; you're the epitome of nu-Anon Babble. Well done.
Smartphones and free-to-play games killed them.
Switch has insane piracy rates and it still sold 6 gorillions in both hardware and software
It's greed, plain and simple. Why borther R&Ding for years to make something people want when you can just give them a tablet with buttons
Typical negro response. I only use Anon Babble to make ape escape threads.
DS, 3DS, and Switch proves that you are a faggot
i'm surprised at how well built a lot of the retroid handhelds are, like they definitely shouldn't at their price points but a lot of times they feel better made than the playstation handhelds i own and definitely better than a DS lite
smart phones happened. I'm not saying that phones have better games. I'd just rather browse the internet when I'm out. Which is why I'm honestly still surprised people play the switch or deck in public.
They realised nobody plays video games outside anymore, people just stare at their phone.
However, a lot of people like playing on a handheld device at home, either because someone else is using the TV or because they like using it for background noise, so size isn't that much of an issue.
I agree though, I miss smol handhelds. Been playing on my modded GBA recently.