Thread 720185404

here's your choice of a handheld console in 2025 bro

Vita means life btw

>>720185404 (OP)
Android sucks so much fucking shit these days, I wish there could be a linux handheld with good battery life and actual portability that doesn't suck ass

>>720185436
>>720185720
Both of these. Why can't I have a linux handheld the size of a Vita that can download and run steam games?

And no I don't want some nerd shit like portmaster, I want to be able to log into steam and just download them without having to carry around a bulky fucking steamdeck. I don't care if it's not powerful, I just want to play my indie games without looking like a dingus

>>720186430
Gpd win 4

>>720186493
>$1000
>CCCP shit
>still bulky
I'll just slap a pi in a PSP

>>720185720
The steam deck OLED has decent battery life and portability but the performance is shit compared to a lenovo Handheld. Don't even bother with the xbots handhelds those things are gay and retarded.

>>720185404 (OP)
>Nintendo games vs. Old Nintendo Games
Wow!
Excite!

For me it's

>>720189512
You're right. New nintendo games suck. Why spent hundreds on garbage games when old ones are better?

>>720185436
Playstation Vita is the Logitech F310 of handheld suggestions
No I will not elaborate

>>720186430
>Why can't I have a linux handheld the size of a Vita that can download and run steam games?
Retroid Pocket 4 Pro or 5
>And no I don't want some nerd shit like portmaster
Then you don't want a Linux handheld you fat faggot you want a Windows handheld so get ready to pay $1000 and up, download Gamehub and Gamenative on a $200 handheld and quit yer bitchin

>>720189632
You are illiterate, ESL

>>720185404 (OP)
>top of the line console
>jeetdroid running on a chinesium tablet
such a hard choice

why were browser flash games in the mid 2000s so good but current mobile games so crap?

theoretically they should be the same thing

fuck nintendo for killing off the DS line

>>720190001
this but the switch is okay

>>720189727
The devs of those distros are fucking incompetent. Batocera breaks almost immediately and rocknix runs like complete garbage on a RP5. You're better off pirating the android apps (because those fags charge for the android versions) since as of today they still work better on that hardware.

Regardless, emulator performance is simply better on other hardware and linux just werkz for emulation since they're all trannies anyway. Remember that chinkshit runs on fucking phone hardware and is always going to be crippled to some extent until they move away from that (which they won't because those chips are cheaper).

>>720189954
The actual answer is monetization both through advertisements and in game purchases.
There was a short couple years from around 2007 - 2010 where mobile games were actually alright because for many games were only buy to play, you spend 3 bucks and you got a JRPG.
There was no freemium, no buy to block ads, no subscription services or season passes or in game ads and purchases or premium currencies or anything like that.
Then suddenly there were and the mobile game sector started to explode. In 2010 mobile game market was $5.6 billion in, a 19% increase from 2009 revenue of $4.7 billion. 2015 ive years later the value was $39 billion. 2020 5 years after that it was $121 Billion, this year it will be over $170 Billion.

>>720190193
gamehub and gamenative are portmaster equivalents for android, anon-doko

>>720190658
Why would I use that when I could just use my PC like a normal person? Nah, I have no interest in using a chinkheld to play PC games. I didn't mention that in my post, I talked about emulator performance and the performance of the two current linux distributions currently "working" on retroid devices. They don't work worth a shit and you can easily pirate any paid app.

>>720185436
I unironically bought one when I heard just how piss easy it was to hack and I'm having a blast with it.

>>720189585
This is the one. In theory it should emulate everything up to Switch and give the best looking DS/3DS experience while still fitting in your pocket

>>720189954
Mobile games are not games. The people "designing" them are not game designers. They hire economist and psychologist to make the games. A slot machine makes money because people stick money into it to get some unlikely output. No gameplay is required in this system because the process is in and of itself addictive.

Once you stop thinking about mobile "games" as games the confusion goes away and it makes perfect sense. You don't ask why all the myriad of Pachinko machines exist when they are all just pachinko, you just accept people are addicted to pachinko because gambling is addicting.

>>720191532
and mmos that are a like 2nd job?

>>720185404 (OP)
why did they stop making things that can fit in your pocket?

>>720185404 (OP)
>Android soon to start banning sideloading apps
I guess that's only one choice

>>720192925
evryone carries a purse around nowadays

>>720189954
Mobile games are bad because they're designed to be played on a touchscreen. Everything bad about them comes from that fact.

>>720194831
picross, TWEWY etc