its actually a good device and small enough to carry around during commute/ traveling and damn, if I actually owned this I would have given this to my sister's child
If only these weren't discontinued
The article says that these younger players play older systems because they can't afford the new shit. The kids are dodging a bullet there. Gen 9 is a fricking joke.
Its the same reason why third worlders are accidentally blessed by the fact that they can only play retro stuff, they are essentially stuck in the golden age of gaming.
This is probably the source (I'm not OP, but this is the most recent japan's gen Z survey)
https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000236.000033586.html
Some keypoint :
Sample size = 668 ( 301 boys, 367 girls )
If you want shitpost material, see bottom right. There's no PS
the games in the latter half of each of the systems lifespans (when they stopped shoving the gimmicks in where they didnt belong) were great.
having less powerful hardware, meant that direct ports werent always possible, and devs couldnt rely on having great visuals so they had to have an interesting artstyle. now that handhelds are no more, and modern consoles are a lot more powerful, its probably something we'll never see again
Should I buy a backup 3ds now or wait for prices to come down a bit. Or wait if that new Citra fork that actually has some development gets better and spend that money on an eck instead. I have one 3ds currently.
>prices to come down a bit
That ain't happening, 3ds is a unique system so people are going to want to have one if they don't and it's super easy to mod and do emulation stuff. You should have bought before 2020 now you have to cope and buy one from Japan and have some Japanese brat's sloppy seconds
>or got wrecked by japs in jump ultimate stars
oh shit i remember that, those frickers taunted at the first of the match and then ganged up on whoever taunted last
Handheld games got homicided by mobile games because normies got trusted with the Internet thus the digital world with smart phones and smartphones had to have a screen so normies could now become gamers.
With zero standards.
So ads and MTX got shoved into shitty shovelware games that got put out for a handful of dollars since nobody saw them as real games and it printed billions.
And now we'll never go back to a system and era where portable gaming will ever be as good. Gameplay wise DS beats the shit out of mobile games too, with stylus control better than touch screen could hope to be for mobile games. >Just get a stylus for the phone screen
Not utilized properly in an as enjoyable way by actual professionals sadly.
Switch, UMPC, whatever switch competitors if any Snoy/microsoft release, and emulation handhelds are what’s going to fill in that space. Not the same I agree, nothing beats purpose built handheld games for mobile gaming, it’s just that’s the best we’re going to get now.
Same reason why the Game Boy is still popular among millennials. Also, the games aged well, I'd rather emulate them on my phone than play native Android slop.
why is the GB generation still popular among millennials? it's what you grew up on, simple as that.
i do think the DS is superior to any other handheld though. so many interesting games and both the fat DS and DS lite could play GBA games anyway.
Last proppa handheld innit. Now it's all chinkshit or big foppa doppa whoppa handheld PCs
Fun games.
why is the gameboy and its clones still popular among millennials?
what are the alternatives to the DS? a smartphone?
ironically the best games to emulalate on a phone are DS games, cause touchscreen interface
Chinkhelds which are basically castrated smartphones with buttons
Maybe because Kid Icarus Uprising and Shin Megami Tensei 4 and still glued to that hardware
The DS was greatest handheld of all time.
t. was in high school when it released
gigantic library
comfy pixel kino sovl games
Consoles still had games back then and the NDS was the greatest portable console that ever existed by far.
the DS is the perfect handheld concept.
Why not? It has a good library and a good gimmick. DS and PSP is the best gen for handhelds.
It was before the online infection focus.
Because comfy kino
its actually a good device and small enough to carry around during commute/ traveling and damn, if I actually owned this I would have given this to my sister's child
If only these weren't discontinued
The article says that these younger players play older systems because they can't afford the new shit. The kids are dodging a bullet there. Gen 9 is a fricking joke.
Its the same reason why third worlders are accidentally blessed by the fact that they can only play retro stuff, they are essentially stuck in the golden age of gaming.
>95% smartphones
It truly is over
This is probably the source (I'm not OP, but this is the most recent japan's gen Z survey)
https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000236.000033586.html
Some keypoint :
Sample size = 668 ( 301 boys, 367 girls )
If you want shitpost material, see bottom right. There's no PS
>zoomers hate millennial PSP/vita ludo
what a doomed generation
the games in the latter half of each of the systems lifespans (when they stopped shoving the gimmicks in where they didnt belong) were great.
having less powerful hardware, meant that direct ports werent always possible, and devs couldnt rely on having great visuals so they had to have an interesting artstyle. now that handhelds are no more, and modern consoles are a lot more powerful, its probably something we'll never see again
The 3DS has a lot of great games you can play on it.
True but I just can't play anything on a Nintendo system since there are no achievements.
subhuman
Kys
Should I buy a backup 3ds now or wait for prices to come down a bit. Or wait if that new Citra fork that actually has some development gets better and spend that money on an eck instead. I have one 3ds currently.
>prices to come down a bit
That ain't happening, 3ds is a unique system so people are going to want to have one if they don't and it's super easy to mod and do emulation stuff. You should have bought before 2020 now you have to cope and buy one from Japan and have some Japanese brat's sloppy seconds
You seem super upset because I asked a question lol
Because it's easy to emulate that shit on any phone now.
how uncomfortable and awful feeling
let me guess, you just play pokemon shite
>ywn go back to the golden age of piracy and homebrew that was the PSP/DS era
I never did that
sucks to be you
>he never watched a potato-quality rip of toy story 3 on his DS or got wrecked by japs in jump ultimate stars
>or got wrecked by japs in jump ultimate stars
oh shit i remember that, those frickers taunted at the first of the match and then ganged up on whoever taunted last
You deserve death.
soul
that's a 3ds
NDS is popular?
Handheld games got homicided by mobile games because normies got trusted with the Internet thus the digital world with smart phones and smartphones had to have a screen so normies could now become gamers.
With zero standards.
So ads and MTX got shoved into shitty shovelware games that got put out for a handful of dollars since nobody saw them as real games and it printed billions.
And now we'll never go back to a system and era where portable gaming will ever be as good. Gameplay wise DS beats the shit out of mobile games too, with stylus control better than touch screen could hope to be for mobile games.
>Just get a stylus for the phone screen
Not utilized properly in an as enjoyable way by actual professionals sadly.
There is a way to save handheld gaming still. At least to a degree.
Ban MTX and free to play.
Switch, UMPC, whatever switch competitors if any Snoy/microsoft release, and emulation handhelds are what’s going to fill in that space. Not the same I agree, nothing beats purpose built handheld games for mobile gaming, it’s just that’s the best we’re going to get now.
>n-normies ruined everything
don't act like otaku aren't equally to blame when they're the primary audience for gacha shit.
The DS is a decent system. Why wouldn't they like it?
Same reason why the Game Boy is still popular among millennials. Also, the games aged well, I'd rather emulate them on my phone than play native Android slop.
Clamshell, very pocketable, tons of great games.
When your only options are of smartphones or stupidly huge products like a SteamDeck or a switch, is it really that surprising?
>zoomers
>being aware of any monhun before gen 5
Too poor to buy a real handheld system like The SteamDeck.
Sad.
Because they grew up with it?
why is the GB generation still popular among millennials? it's what you grew up on, simple as that.
i do think the DS is superior to any other handheld though. so many interesting games and both the fat DS and DS lite could play GBA games anyway.
nostalgia