For playing shitty gatcha games with minimal control inputs? Mobile phones have been a disaster for mobile games, the quality is unimaginably poor.
Thank god for chinkhelds.
doesn't matter. SteamDeck exists and it revived handheld gaming once again since now you can't just kill steamdeck because it's a pc and pc games will be releasing and will be compatible with it as long as x86 is alive
Which is funny because the sticker price of an Iphone is way more than that, but nobody in the US pays full price. They're always for "free" as part of some 2 year contract.
Nothing logical killed it. The 3DS was unimaginably successful, one of the most successful handhelds ever produced. For no reason at all Nintendo simply decided to not make a new handheld.
eBay is fine. Lites were so mass produced that you can get them for like 40-50 bucks in good condition
The best is the DSi XL, those hover around 80-100
Get one if you can find a deal. Easy to hack and you can download every single 3ds and ds game from within the system.
Oh I thought you meant the og DS specifically.
Either of the "New" 3DS models are best but prices are kinda fricked right now, 200 bucks or more, easy.
Protip, just buy one of the "old" models. They're much cheaper and you won't be missing out on that much unless you really wanna play a small handful of exclusive titles that badly. I got a launch model in excellent condition for 140.
Oh I thought you meant the og DS specifically.
Either of the "New" 3DS models are best but prices are kinda fricked right now, 200 bucks or more, easy.
Protip, just buy one of the "old" models. They're much cheaper and you won't be missing out on that much unless you really wanna play a small handful of exclusive titles that badly. I got a launch model in excellent condition for 140.
>Everyone dies against Nintendo >Nintendo gave up on the home console space and made a hybrid system >The closest thing to a competitor is the Valve "its totally not a Switch haha" Deck
The switch, ironically. The switch became everything the PSP and the PSVita was trying to do and mogged them so hard Sony pulled out of the handheld market.
It's absolutely true that the Switch is the weakest console on the market, but when you view it as a handheld it's very impressive, given the depth of the library at any time and any place.
>Everyone dies against Nintendo >Nintendo gave up on the home console space and made a hybrid system >The closest thing to a competitor is the Valve "its totally not a Switch haha" Deck
I hate the fact that the Switch popularized bigger handhelds. Actually I'm just tired of the switch in general.
I saw a kid with a honest-to-god original PSP the last time I was in the city. I didn't see what he was playing and I wasn't going to go out of my way to find out for obvious reasons.
The only time I see kids glued to their Ipads or Ipods its with some lady way too young to be a mom with a permanent look of fury on her face.
I know that's not the case 90% of the time, but that's all I see in my day to day.
I want one of those china handhelds to be like the DS but just with slightly bigger screens and higher res like 720p or something. Why haven't they done that yet? If you could have an actual handheld about the size of the DS and have it emulate everything up to the DS and PSP era then it would be able to play most games you would ever want to play.
Handheld gaymen had 2 audiences. Casual and hardcore. Smartphones became ubiquitous and satisfied the casual audience. So do you really think hardcore gamers can keep a product line alive? Look at the PS Vita.
In what fricking world can you fit a Steam Deck in a cargo pocket. Even the frick huge pockets in my OCPs won't come close to fitting that. My DS even with the massive battery I've attached to it fits easily into a pocket
Handheld tech has gotten so good that there's no appreciable reason to have a separate handheld line anymore. You could make a pocket-sized console with the power of a PS3 nowadays. Which means a handheld will eat into the sales of a home system, so the only business case for it is if you only have a handheld line. which is what Nintendo did, by merging their handhelds and home systems with the Switch.
Mud, by the looks of it
My name is mud.
Not to be confused with Bill, or Jack, or Pete, or Dennis
My name is Mud, it's always been
so hit 'im upside the cranium with that aluminum baseball bat
Cuz I'm the most boring sonsab***h you've ever seen..
Me Llamo Mud
YOU DESTROYED THE PSP3, ILL KILL YOU
where u goin city boy?
Multi User Dungeon games???
The Jordan River is full of mud.
>he doesn't know
Is it cum? Please say it's cum.
THEY'RE POSTING MUDDY DS
THAT'S NOT MUD
Anon had sex with his 3DS.
He imagined that it was the dog from Animal Crossing.
It's drenched in dried cum now.
That's not mud
Yes, it's CUM!!! HA HA!!!
Nintendo were the only ones keeping it alive and they replaced it with a console that struggles in portable mode.
What's the point when you have powerful mobile phones
For playing shitty gatcha games with minimal control inputs? Mobile phones have been a disaster for mobile games, the quality is unimaginably poor.
Thank god for chinkhelds.
I did. You're welcome.
doesn't matter. SteamDeck exists and it revived handheld gaming once again since now you can't just kill steamdeck because it's a pc and pc games will be releasing and will be compatible with it as long as x86 is alive
computers
it's probably much more profitable to put games fit for handhelds on a phone because everyone has a phone.
Nothing, the switch is about to be the best selling console of all time
Doesn't fit in my pocket.
It's still a portable device.
Mobile gaming
I never see kids playing their Switch in public, it's always some stupid shit on a beat up iPhone
literally me
>it's always some stupid shit on a beat up iPhone
Now you know why mom and dad tells them to leave the $300 game system at the house.
Which is funny because the sticker price of an Iphone is way more than that, but nobody in the US pays full price. They're always for "free" as part of some 2 year contract.
you can play hoyoverse games on a 400 dollar android phone though. Phones just get better every year
Also most parents give the kids their old phone to the kids when they upgrade.
Smartphones I guess.
Nothing logical killed it. The 3DS was unimaginably successful, one of the most successful handhelds ever produced. For no reason at all Nintendo simply decided to not make a new handheld.
>DS: 154.02 million units
>3DS: 75.94 million units
Nintendo saw the writing on the wall
IT WAS ME
I've been using my 3DS regularly since 2012 and I don't plan on stopping anytime soon
THE ICE AGE
on the topic of handhelds,
how easy is it to acquire a DS today and what one is best?
eBay is fine. Lites were so mass produced that you can get them for like 40-50 bucks in good condition
The best is the DSi XL, those hover around 80-100
Thanks for the info, what's the deal with the 3DS then? Is that not the newest system in the DS line overall?
3DS is basically the "next gen" DS, it has more advanced games and is backwards compatible with the old DS games.
Thanks for the help, anons!
Get one if you can find a deal. Easy to hack and you can download every single 3ds and ds game from within the system.
Oh I thought you meant the og DS specifically.
Either of the "New" 3DS models are best but prices are kinda fricked right now, 200 bucks or more, easy.
Protip, just buy one of the "old" models. They're much cheaper and you won't be missing out on that much unless you really wanna play a small handful of exclusive titles that badly. I got a launch model in excellent condition for 140.
The Switch is a handheld
>Everyone dies against Nintendo
>Nintendo gave up on the home console space and made a hybrid system
>The closest thing to a competitor is the Valve "its totally not a Switch haha" Deck
The switch, ironically. The switch became everything the PSP and the PSVita was trying to do and mogged them so hard Sony pulled out of the handheld market.
It's absolutely true that the Switch is the weakest console on the market, but when you view it as a handheld it's very impressive, given the depth of the library at any time and any place.
I hate the fact that the Switch popularized bigger handhelds. Actually I'm just tired of the switch in general.
The actual answer is fast convenient internet everywhere. Nobody needs games to keep them busy on the move anymore because they can stay "connected".
I saw a kid with a honest-to-god original PSP the last time I was in the city. I didn't see what he was playing and I wasn't going to go out of my way to find out for obvious reasons.
The only time I see kids glued to their Ipads or Ipods its with some lady way too young to be a mom with a permanent look of fury on her face.
I know that's not the case 90% of the time, but that's all I see in my day to day.
I want one of those china handhelds to be like the DS but just with slightly bigger screens and higher res like 720p or something. Why haven't they done that yet? If you could have an actual handheld about the size of the DS and have it emulate everything up to the DS and PSP era then it would be able to play most games you would ever want to play.
gotcha
Handheld gaymen had 2 audiences. Casual and hardcore. Smartphones became ubiquitous and satisfied the casual audience. So do you really think hardcore gamers can keep a product line alive? Look at the PS Vita.
Nintendo realizing that they could just charge console prices for handheld games, paid online and all, and people would buy it anyway.
>made in india
I still play the 3DS as my go to console. I have a pretty good PC but I dunno there is just something about 3DS games
I'm still sad the deck was such a flop. The one chance to make PC gaming more accessible to casuals and Valve failed.
Handheld gaming has literally never been better.
THE POCKETS THE FRICKING POCKETS IT DOESNT FIT IN MY FRICKING POCKETS LARRY THE FRICKING POCKETS
just wear cargo pants you unvirgin
In what fricking world can you fit a Steam Deck in a cargo pocket. Even the frick huge pockets in my OCPs won't come close to fitting that. My DS even with the massive battery I've attached to it fits easily into a pocket
>cargo pants
Even more embarrassing than owning a deck.
Handheld tech has gotten so good that there's no appreciable reason to have a separate handheld line anymore. You could make a pocket-sized console with the power of a PS3 nowadays. Which means a handheld will eat into the sales of a home system, so the only business case for it is if you only have a handheld line. which is what Nintendo did, by merging their handhelds and home systems with the Switch.