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  1. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Thank God it's over, can't wait until consoles are entirely obsolete.

  2. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Will Valve ever release a smaller steam deck

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Ngl I'd take a dip in pc handhelds if we get one the size of a Vita/DS that can run a good amount of indie/older AAA games

      When are we getting a new handheld? Is it over?

      It's Joever

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      how small can you feasibly make a pc thats meant to play pc games? the controls of the deck alone require huge form factor.

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        Imagine this: a handheld marketed towards girls that fits in your pocket and has two removable controllers (like joycons) that you attach to your heels for storage.

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          >marketed toward girls
          >removable controllers that attach uniquely to them
          >call them "e-girlcons"
          genius

          • 5 months ago
            Anonymous

            You're getting 10% royalties just for that

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          >marketed towards girls
          >that fits in your pocket
          Girls don't use pockets.

          • 5 months ago
            Anonymous

            w-what...?

            • 5 months ago
              Anonymous

              Bro, girls are pockets. They empathize to much to penetrate one.

            • 5 months ago
              Anonymous

              You never look at women's clothes?
              9 times out of 10 the pockets are useless for putting stuff in it whether it's fake or just not deep enough to put anything inside

            • 5 months ago
              Anonymous

              Women's clothes are 100% fashion and 0% function. If they have pockets they're too small to carry anything besides maybe a paper bill.
              Also they carry purses around so they don't really need them.

            • 5 months ago
              Anonymous

              Looking loose is such a priority for women that they wear shorts, jeans, etc. so tight their pockets are literally unusable or fake. It's the reason why pic related became a thing, I'm not kidding.

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                I still don't know what those are

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                It lets you carry your phone around with your finger gaps.

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                lets you hold the phone without actually gripping it. I've only ever seen women that use this.

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        >how small can you feasibly make a pc thats meant to play pc games? the controls of the deck alone require huge form factor.
        Ayaneo Air and GPD Win 3 are about the smallest practical models, anything below that and you probably couldn't fit a big enough fan and battery. So about chunky Switch Like size.

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          that gpd thing looks incredibly uncomfortable to hold, nevermind that it lacks touchpad so entire genres are unfeasible to play on it.
          this isn't to disprove your point but to add to it: even if you could make the battery atom sized, just making an ergonomic handheld with proper inputs to actually function as a portable gaming pc you necessitates a pretty large size.

          • 5 months ago
            Anonymous

            If you want touchpads, put them under the screen instead of the keyboard. The battery in this device is also bigger than the one in the regular Deck. Some comfort must be sacrificed for size of course.

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        considering the current performance of the deck
        it's unrealistic to ever assume a smaller form factor

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        Is this a joke? Many PC games can be played via touchscreen alone, and many require just one analog stick. That's the 3DS form factor which is pretty damn small, and for anything that needs a second stick just slap another piece on the side JUST LIKE THE 3DS DID.

        It doesn't have the play the latest games, it just has to play most of them. I'd buy a tiny Deck with a 1080 in it that was in the 3DS form factor. Either way you need it docked for any FPS games so it's not like the form factor even matters.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      You're joking right?

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        Dead serious.

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          I can see them doing it a refresh or two down the road if the OG architecture can be shrunken down to Game Boy or PSP size. Playing Red Dead 2 at 60 FPS on something that small would be pretty wild.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      A lot of PC games wouldn't be playable on a screen much smaller, which is probably why they're avoiding doing it.

  3. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Those were they days

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Those were they/them days
      What did he mean by that?

  4. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    I miss the days when a handheld could actually fit in your pocket.
    How does a company that practically invented the handheld miss the point so fricking hard with the Switch?

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      This, it's why have my Vita in my pocket so I can just kill time with Tetris

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Because Switch is not a handheld. It's a hybrid.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Portable =/= pocketable
      Handheld =/= pocketable

      You gays obsessed with putting shit out your pockets are beyond me. I'd rather have large screens, full control layouts, and comfortable ergonomics than have a device small enough for my pocket, and it's not possible to do both

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        It's easy access

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        >it's not possible to do both
        blocks your path

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        That was literally the PSP back in 2005 you moronic zoomer.

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        >it's not possible to do both
        blocks your path

        ENTER

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          I love my vita so much bros

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          Beautiful design

  5. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    I miss clamshells

  6. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    When are we getting a new handheld? Is it over?

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's over. Everybody expects 720p console games minimum on at least a tablet-sized screen.

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        I remember in 2013 I used to game in 720P just fine on a dual core processor and a GT 630, what happened?

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          10 years passed i guess?

          • 5 months ago
            Anonymous

            Yeah but that was a piece of shit laptop even then and I was still gaming at 720P 60FPS. The Steam Deck by comparison doesn't really play contemporary games any better than that laptop played 2013 games. The point is that it feels like there's been near zero improvement in size for a given level of gaming performance since then.

            • 5 months ago
              Anonymous

              gt 630m had a tdp of 33w. your gpu alone took like twice the power the entire deck does to run games. the advances in efficiency are pretty insane imo.
              anyway the real problem is that batteries havent gotten, and arent going to get any better any time soon so portable x86 devices wont get a lot tinier unless you want the battery to last 15 minutes.

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                I don't know if I would say that, batteries are being research pretty heavily right now because of how wide the applications are for better ones.

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                of course they are being researched, they are always being researched. doesn't mean there has been a lot of meaningful progress for the last decade.

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                Sodium ion batteries came out very recently though the focus there is on longevity rather than density, they're only comparably energy dense to lithium ion.

  7. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    >be Nintendo
    >make one of the best handhelds
    >loose the portability for (slightly) more power
    >popularize bigger handhelds
    >be Sony
    >make one of the best handhelds
    >do everything in your power to make it fail
    >release a shitty $200 Wii U clone
    Why do we live in this timeline

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      the psp had so many good games that will never be ported anywhere else

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        luckily psp emulators are pretty good and run on anything

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      >slightly
      Lies, the switch is more powerful.

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        I was talking about compared to the Wii U

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          Of course you were! You'd be a fool to talk about the switch like that :]

          • 5 months ago
            Anonymous

            doggo wife
            why did Nintendo miss out on making a switch pro

            • 5 months ago
              Anonymous

              Cause its impossible to surpass perfection. ;3

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      >[SONY] release a shitty $200 Wii U clone

      What happened with Portal? This was shilled 24/7 and people forget that existed

  8. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    don't you guys have phones?

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      >mobile gaming
      >in 2023
      FTFY

  9. 5 months ago
    Anonymous
  10. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Realistically how can you truly call your handheld portable if it cannot fit in your pocket?

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      just get cargo pants

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        >portable console
        >cargos
        peak 'tism

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          problem?

          • 5 months ago
            Anonymous

            No, no, just commenting. Just typing words about things and stuff.
            *snrk*

  11. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    I would like to see a Vita sized Switch, something like the Retroid Pocket 3+ except with Switch guts inside.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Me too, he’ll I’d even settle for a switch lite with an OLED screen

  12. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    I don't miss the low ppi these handhelds had, it's like looking at a screen door.

  13. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why the frick do you need to play video games on the fly anyway? Just wait till you get home like a normal human. If you're really desperate, just get a big phone.

    >inb4 everyone here is secretly international business autists that are never home

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      why not? video games are fun.

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        So is real life. You might even learn something or get some pussy out there.

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          if you are so embarrassed of playing video games why even post on Ganker?

          • 5 months ago
            Anonymous

            I'm fricking not embarrassed to play video games, but I know when they're worthwhile to play. I don't want to play my games on some trash piece of shit that runs out of battery in two seconds, I want the full experience. When I'm out and about, the last thing on my mind should be the bing bing wahoo, lest I get mugged or shot.

            not really. you can't just unplug your PS5 and go to your room and set it up again really fast. youre not understanding my point, which I probably should have made clearer in my post.

            >I MUST PLAY MY VIDEO GAMES WHEREVER I GO WAHOOOOOOOO

            What's wrong with playing a short game to kill some time?
            That's what I do most of the time when I game outside
            I just play tetris on my Vita if I'm waiting to get called up for example

            Just play it on your phone, no need for some autistic purpose built device that you yank out like a neckbeard.

            • 5 months ago
              Anonymous

              >Just play it on your phone, no need for some autistic purpose built device that you yank out like a neckbeard.
              How am I supposed to play Midnight Castle Succubus on my phone while out and about?

            • 5 months ago
              Anonymous

              >mugged or shot
              americoons really "live" like this

            • 5 months ago
              Anonymous

              >GAYMING IN PUBLIC IS OBSCENE
              >but I've got time to kill?
              >just gayme on your phone lmao
              backpedaling homosexual
              also touch controls are a sin against nature

            • 5 months ago
              Anonymous

              >no need for some autistic purpose built device that you yank out like a neckbeard.
              Don't like how mobile controls are & I like the feel of clicking buttons
              Controllers that clip onto phones are also a thing but that's even gayer

              What situation can these be used in that a Switch can't? Switch has more potential for stealth gaming.

              Ngl I think a laptop can be used to stealth game more than a switch
              Especially if you got those AR glasses you can hook up to it & you have the laptop in a backpack

            • 5 months ago
              Anonymous

              your may say that you're not embarrassed, but your use of language points to the opposite.
              i feel a person who wasn't insecure about his interests wouldn't talk about how autistic it is to play bing bing wahoos and nor be concerned about being seen as a neckbeard.
              you should probably quit gaming, and i dont say this out of any ill will: it just seems that you associate it with low self esteem, so it would likely be healthier to spend your time on things that improve your self esteem instead.

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                he's most likely posting the shits anon

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                Why would God make such a silly creature?

            • 5 months ago
              Anonymous

              >lest I get mugged or shot.
              Have you tried not living in Detroit, israelite York, Seattle or California?

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      when I go home I want to sleep
      I play vidya on my off time at work

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      i dont own any handhelds personally but i believe most people who own a switch or deck just use it at home. its the fact that you can relax on a couch and game on a device that makes it so appealing. its not like these guys are going to starbucks and playing vidya in a cafe like a manchild

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        >its the fact that you can relax on a couch and game on a device that makes it so appealing

        yeah it's called a regular fricking console

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          not really. you can't just unplug your PS5 and go to your room and set it up again really fast. youre not understanding my point, which I probably should have made clearer in my post.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      >long transit
      >not driving
      >can't do anything fun
      >...
      >UNLESS

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        My heart

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      What's wrong with playing a short game to kill some time?
      That's what I do most of the time when I game outside
      I just play tetris on my Vita if I'm waiting to get called up for example

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      I'm often not home for months at a time. Deployment is a b***h.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Its fun lying down in bed, or anywhere else and for the same reason why i dont wanna carry a laptop with me that i bring my phone.

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        You have to understand that most people here are in their early 20's at best, and still live with their parents and are scared to go use the family TV or make themselves food when anyone might be awake. They don't have jobs, and view sitting in a chair at a desk playing video games their biggest pleasure and escape. They are ashamed of this, but think they're better than some pathetic wagie on the bus who's so unaware of social norms that they're playing video games in public. What they fail to understand is that it's not about portability. Of fricking course most people would rather play a game on a big screen with the best performance possible if the only other option is spending a couple hours a day just getting to work. What they don't understand is how comfy a handheld can be even if you never take it outside. They spend all day in their rooms, so the idea of laying down on the couch, or at the island with lunch, or in bed, or on the porch, etc., just doesn't make any sense to them. They're children.

  14. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    *blocks you path*

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      >struggle to run pokemon above 20fps, and it's still ugly

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        Like the 3DS and Vita have silky smooth framerates...

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          But most of them do...
          at least if you OC on Vita

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        I remember when people thought ryujinx was struggling with the violet leaked rom when actually the game is fricking shit and it was actually a bad optimized game. But of course with a better hardware game freak can just brute force it and we can have game cube era graphics this time. It will sell billions anyway

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          eh, i tried it a week before release on yuzu, beside a fiew textures bugs comming from the emulator it ran smooth, both yuzu and ryujinx have bad default settings
          but right it's not fair using game freak's trash to judge that, let's look at ToTk
          >drop from 30 to 22-24 fps when near anything that create particules like a fire of when using powers

          • 5 months ago
            Anonymous

            Are you serious comparing scarlet and violet with frame drops everywhere with totk? I was in the threads before release and it did not run smoth for anybody using custom ryujinx builds. All those frame drops also existed in the switch version and were even worse with crashes and other terrible experience even comparing it to pokemon legends that was released before.

            • 5 months ago
              Anonymous

              read homie read, the point is : the hardware is shit
              also
              >expecting your average Gankertard to properly tweek an emulator by himself

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                of course the hardware is shit but it's bad optimized compared to every other first party game. They only release this crap for the switch.

            • 5 months ago
              Anonymous

              I swear Gamefreak is the fricking Bethesda of Japan and the fans make the same bullshit excuses for them.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Is this shit hackable yet? I would use it as an emulation machine that runs whatever 3DS can't like N64 and I'm not paying for that live service trash.

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        I think it's only hard mod

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Would be portable if it was a clamshell design, the fricking sticks jut out too much.

  15. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    modern pc handhelds are soulless. and the switch is as well.
    unique hardware like the ds or even just something that doesnt have all inputs like the psp, as well as just lower spec hardware will limit the devs in such a way to force them to come up with more creative games than just trying their least to port some pc/home console game over and calling it a day.

  16. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    What situation can these be used in that a Switch can't? Switch has more potential for stealth gaming.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      >switch has more potential for stealth gaming
      That may be slightly true compared to the 3ds but the switch is very noticable

  17. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    Why is being naked a problem? Why is stabbing yourself with metal and creating small holes a problem?

  18. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    is this your way of admitting you're embarrassed of playing video games after all? like i said i mean no ill will, but why not quit gaming if it makes you feel bad about yourself?

  19. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    The vita was fricking ass
    The 3ds is kino

    Also the 2dsxl specially sucks

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      2DSXL is good
      Vita is also kino

  20. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    They should have made a clamshell Switch like picrel but with sunken in joysticks instead of circle pads.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      >sunken in joysticks instead of circle pads.
      Except both those things fricking suck.

  21. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Hey vita wizards, how do I emulate this shitty thing? I want to play that Mana game remake on it, but I've never emulated vita before. Everything I'm finding is about resources to play games on a real vita and not emulating it. I found downloadgamepsp dot org/ and I found vita3k, but I have no idea if the files available on the former can work on the latter as they are. There's a "NoNpDrm Plugin PSVITA" bit there on that site, but the guide on how to do that has to do with a physical vita console, doesn't it?

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      vita is pretty awful for emulating anything other than psp and ps1

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        he's trying to emulate the vita

  22. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    >OP doesn't Deck purse
    Pathetic.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      This make you look more of a homosexual than any hipster homosexualry

  23. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    idk man, I just take off the joycons and it fits in like a pocked and a half
    It's bigger than a DS for sure, but it's not a Deck where it's just unfeasible to lug it around without a bag of some sort.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      I just wish it was smaller
      and had a better d-pad

  24. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    someone should just take the internals of a steam deck, remove the big ass screen, shrink the body, and have it tethered to AR display glasses. modern virtual boy

  25. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >implying mindless conformism isn't degeneracy
    >implying autistic obsession with social norms is good thing or somehow different than obsession with trains or sonic.
    Your moronic social norms are one of the very reasons for current situation.
    As for why, thats because your social norms are worthless and not intersting to us.
    And I hope you are vaxxed and triple boosted and will burn in hell if there is one.

  26. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    new3ds XL felt like a pretty big shafting stateside and switch is even bigger than that, I assume you'd need anti-theft deep pockets to lug that shit around "discretely"

  27. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Nintendo 3DShit
    >Gaystation Shiva
    Yeah, truly great

  28. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    Nice cope but you are just insecure beta with low self esteem.

  29. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    Social norms changed, its now wrong to be bigoted nazi like you.
    You just like your version of social norms are stuck in primitive past.

  30. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    I didn't like the 3DS, and the DS library was infinitely superior.

  31. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    >NinKINO 3DS
    >KINOstation Vita
    Yeah, truly great

  32. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    I grew up with the original Game Boy and then got a Game Gear. I didn't go anywhere without them. They were both fricking massive compared to my OLED Switch. I literally carried my GG around in a small suitcase. Any bumfrick cell phone today does more than either the GB or GG. That's what kids use today. You think these systems were portable because that's what you grew up with, but there's no going back. I have my top dozen or so PSP and Vita games on my fricking iPhone, but I spend a lot less time playing them because I'm no longer a child, but I play my Switch everyday, almost always in handheld. Those aren't portable consoles; those are handhelds.

  33. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Kind of funny how 30 years after the fact someone actually made the Virtual Boy concept work and unlike the original Virtual Boy you can actually use it anywhere.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      I had a Virtual Boy. It sucked. But it was absolutely more portable than a fricking oculus quest. What the hell are you even talking about?

  34. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    Why are you here?
    You dont like games, you care about looking good for normalgays, frick off.

  35. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    I wish games didnt try to look super detailed and could just stick with wii graphics or just make it look aesthetic.

  36. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    iPhones are 10x better and even more portable. You lost, Chud.
    Not to mention, the games on iPhone are 100x better in every aspect of a game.

  37. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Vita means life

  38. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'd love a new vita, but I don't trust modern sony one bit.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Just get the next Switch model. None of these companies are going back to a handheld only market not that the technology has gotten to a point where modern console games can run on a handheld. Sony is the last company to care about smaller, handheld titles at this point. Their entire strategy is to do nothing but cinematic experiences.

  39. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    now people have phones!
    the average phone can emulate 3ds games fine

  40. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Wish I never sold my entire video game collection I spent my entire life slowly building up. Hit rock bottom with booze and drugs in my 20s and had to sell them to pawnshops for a quick buck. Tried to sell them on amazon/ebay for their real value but i needed the money asap. These pawnshops got highly well taken care of games, most of my cases had no stratches, as did the discs, they all had the booklets.. I can only hope some autist who cares about gaming bought them and has them displayed in his game room

  41. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    To this day, I still don't know why they killed the 3DS so they could go all in on the Switch's portability.
    It was really, really popular, even at the end.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      ???
      The Switch is literally killing it in sales, dabbing on the PS5 and Xbox combined. How was it in anyway a bad decision?

  42. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Got a hacked Vita, what's the best games to enjoy on it friends?

  43. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's a shame that the only truly pocketable handhelds we have now are smartphones and chinkshit emulators... frick you, Nintendo, and frick you too, Sony... also, frick Microsoft for never making a handheld and frick SEGA for dropping out of the industry and never making a Game Gear 2.

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