what is the point of handhelds/portables? they were useful when I was a kid and my parents would take me places but I just wanted to play vidya games, but as an adult if I'm at home I can play my non-portable games and if I'm not at home it's because I have something to do that doesn't involve bing bing wahoos. is the only use case playing games on the toilet?

>>717948858 (OP)
The limitations created by the lack of power could create unique experiences.

>>717948858 (OP)
Non-Amerifat adults have long commutes on government transit.

it's comfy to play games in bed I bought a 3ds this year after not owning handheld since launch DS as a kid. i love it and find myself playing it way more than I expected

Why do people play/read on the toilet instead of just taking a shit and leaving

>>717948858 (OP)
If I left my house I'd play them more often

>>717948858 (OP)
I like them for laying in bed and playing slow games. It's cozy.

>>717948858 (OP)
>what is the point of handhelds/portables?
Something to do during public transport.

>>717948858 (OP)
>what is the point of handhelds/portables?
Kids still exist today, and they don't have their own televisions.

>>717948858 (OP)
They're perfect for me, my parents have a vacation house they spend all summer in and insist on flying me up almost every weekend, it's a 50 minute to 1 hour flight weather depending so its perfect for those flights. Also if I am sick I can plug it in and play in bed without going to my PC

>>717948858 (OP)
well yeah theyre for children
i never saw any adults playing video games when i was a kid

>>717948858 (OP)
I agree somewhat, but I still like them because:

1. My fiancee's parents live in a town 2hrs away and we sometimes spend the weekend there, so having a video game console I can take with me with ease is good, much better than taking an entire home console on my bag every time, also makes it more pick up and play, which is helpful on trips like this which are often chill, and suddently can have you end up doing a lot of stuff.

2. It's comfortable to ue it in bed.

That's all really.

>>717948858 (OP)
Maybe if you weren't poor, you'd do some traveling and have a reason for portability.
>Inb4 sour grapes

>>717948858 (OP)
>public transport
>someone else in the household is using the tv
>lying in bed
>a long wait for an appointment
>going on holiday and wanting something to occupy yourself with in the evening
I find portability much less important as an adult than when I was a kid, but there are still use cases.

>middle of playing game
>something comes up
>shut lid, put handheld in pocket
>finish dealing with whatever happened
>open lid
>resume game as normal
Loved this shit. Pushing the lock button on a phone screen or whatever just isn't the same.

>blog thread

>>717948858 (OP)
>what is the point of handhelds/portables?
You do realize how big the mobile gaming industry is, right? Smartphones are this generation's gameboy, and the clue is in the name: portable gaming. It's something to do on a bus or while sitting in a waiting room. During the Gameboy/GBA era there was no wifi or smartphones or tablets, the gameboy was what you put in a kid's hand to keep them occupied while out in public. And I'd argue the gameboy was a lot better for kids than the tablet, which has irreparably damaged an entire generation of children by drip-feeding them constant slop at age 2.

>>717948971
you know you're allowed to put a tv in your bedroom and use a wireless gamepad so you can play from your bed? no one will stop you, unless you have a bitch wife I guess.

>>717948858 (OP)
shockingly enough other children were born after you

>>717948858 (OP)
>what is the point of handhelds/portables? they were useful when I was a kid
And what, there are no new kids nowadays?

>>717950261
>tv in your bedroom
I did this so I could fall asleep playing Switch and it was the worst mistake of my life. I would be up playing REMake or Fatal Frame until like 3AM and then put on Cumtown compilations, my sleep was fucked. I stopped playing it at night so its all good now but the initial months of having it were suffering

>>717948858 (OP)
Are you retarded? Serious question.

>>717950261
TV in bedroom is for teenagers or people living in a sharehouse.
Keep your loungeroom/gaming room separate to your bedroom, like a real adult. Stupid bingbangwahoo kid. I bet you wear pajamas to bed too.

>>717948858 (OP)
They're good for when the power goes out.

whats the point of retarded threads like this

>>717950261
my pc IS hooked up to my TV in bed. handheld games are still comfy. I play my 3DS while I'm getting my kid to bed mostly

>>717948858 (OP)
i like playing vidya in bed while my wife sleeps

>>717948858 (OP)
The real question is why did they stop making handhelds with transparent cases? Seeing the circuit traces inside my GBA sowed the seeds of my eventual interest in electronics.

>>717950261
>you know you're allowed to put a tv in your bedroom and use a wireless gamepad so you can play from your bed?

You're not thinking clearly. When you lie down on bed, you have to change sides every 3 minutes or you get massive back pain. You'd need two TVs to make sure you get video on both sides AND they'd have to be installed 90 degrees sideways. That's nonsense. It's much better to have a small screen that follows you when your body changes orientation.

>>717953012
i would love a switch lite like this
guess i could shell swap it but third party shells always feel worse
>>717950261
i prefer not having a tv in my bedroom it feels gross

>>717948858 (OP)
handhelds used to have cool exclusives. now handhelds don't really exist, indie games kinda took over the niche of cheap games of a lower quality than console games.

>>717948858 (OP)
i like the bite sized nature of many handheld titles
i have a good PC and a Switch 2 but i still often use my cheap chinese gameboy to play gameboy games

>>717948858 (OP)
I miss when handhelds were a completely different ecosystem compared to now where they're basically portable home consoles that let you play downgraded console games.

>>717953506
It took a while but mobile games are now at least GBC-tier quality. Not quite GBA yet but probably soon.

>>717953628
mobile games can never replace real games though because touch screen controls fucking suck
and yes you can be gay and attach some faggot controller to your phone but you could also just use a handheld

>>717953506
same. it's a genuine tragedy

>>717953708
even when you do play mobile shit with keyboard and mouse or a controller, it doesn't change that the game was designed to be played with 1 finger on a screen
it's why games like wuthering waves are all flash, no substance