>>718208946
In my entire life span, I have had so many encounters and seen people use handhelds from brick GameBoy and even GameGear up till the 3DS. The general attitude about handheld games is to pick up, play, and drop at any moment. The games are made and designed for this general attitude. Not only that, there is less of a stigma to be seen with a DS or PSP because those things were seen and cool and really fun to play, compare that to a /v/ anon with a cum crusted Nintendie shirt with a Doge hat walking around with an overpowered android tablet.

>why does the switch not count
None of the games are designed to be a handheld, none of the games are predetermined to be picked up, and played around at any time or location like a GameBoy. The games are too long, too complex, and really require the players attention. The ONLY POINT you can argue is that you can pick it up and take it any where and suspend it without losing progress, but no one want to constantly keep track of the battery power at risk of losing progress.

>>718208734
>Handheld is the future though
>Just look how many people prefer playing games on mobile
You have no idea how grim and bleak this sounds.