Thread 724988250

Not the stupid giant tablets like the switch and steam deck, real handhelds like the gameboy,psp and ds

The unique limitations and quirks of pocketable handhelds create experiences which can't be replicated in the current gaming landscape

They were better times

>The unique limitations and quirks of pocketable handhelds create experiences which can't be replicated in the current gaming landscape

They shouldn't be replicated. Go play a 2600 if you want to have your experience be limited. I'm glad that they're dead.

>>724988250 (OP)
>which can't be replicated in the current gaming landscape
werks on my switch set to japanese

>>724988250 (OP)
Like 80% of current Japanese developers would be better off making handheld games. Their budgets don’t seem to have scaled to these modern times, and they’d be more focused mechanically and better looking visually if they were still on portable machines, I think. The HD transition has not been like to Japan.

>>724989121
True. The nintendo switch has been a disaster for japanese game development.

Handheld isn't gaming
It's same as mobile shit

>>724989121
This is the biggest reason pokemon games look terrible now

>>724989121
>>724989183
>>Like 80% of current Japanese developers would be better off making handheld games.
They are indeed making switch 1 and 2 games.

Get a Switch Lite or a chinkheld like a Retroid Pocket 5.

>>724989346
I brought switch lite and got joycon drift after 4 months...

>>724989346
I'll buy the switch lite when they make one with a better screen. For now I'm coping with the oled switch.

GBA, DS, and 3DS have some pretty amazing libraries. I never got into the switch, personally. I always thought it was a bit fucked up because devs had to make the game for both TV play as well as handheld play, so I figured the games just sucked cock

>>724988250 (OP)
>Not the stupid giant tablets like the switch and steam deck
>real handhelds like the gameboy,psp and ds
>psp
>vita
>not stupid giant tablets

>>724988250 (OP)
>The unique limitations and quirks of pocketable handhelds create experiences which can't be replicated in the current gaming landscape
Which games specifically created a unique experience that couldn't otherwise be replicated? Because when i played gameboy, they were just tiny nintendo games. MegaMan, Mario, etc.

neo geo pocket/pocket color was goated and unfortunately suffered the curse that anything snk has to sell like dogshit

>>724989467
No you didn't.

vita was the GOAT, IYKYK

Hand held gaming was the beginning of this slop yoi see now. You aren't suppose to take your bideo gaems everywhere and play it anytime. Now we are stuck in the endless cycle of constant entertainment

Would there be any audience if someone just a modern GB or DS equivalent, with decent enough specs and its own games? $250.
Not talking about a retro device that runs android or something, but just a cheap handheld with cheap original games and ports of smaller AA and indie games.

>>724989872
With how expensive gaming has become potentially if done right and the console had good games

To this day, one of my favorite games is Tearaway.

>>724988250 (OP)
It makes me wonder why the FUCK don't we have a current goddam phone with a control pad, or PSP stick, or 3ds physical format?

>>724988250 (OP)
Take the chinkheld pill

>>724989758
The most obvious ones being DS games, or multisystem multiplayer games.

>>724988250 (OP)
Why make compelling handheld gaming experiences when you can make billions from mobile gacha slop?

>>724989963
There are gamepad accessories for phones, but I've never tried them. Just get good with touch screens. All the kids did.

>>724990176
what multi-screen games existed where the second screen was not just a glorified minimap and/or inventory?
>but touch-
the switch also has a touch screen that works with a capacitor pen

>>724990034
are there DS games that use the dual screen for anything interesting? Maps. inventory, etc. are somewhat helpful but I daresay not a very compelling feature for the extra screen.

literally just slap a fucking controller on your phone and emulate
soon you'll be able to play steam games on your phone via proton
pocketable handhelds are a shit form factor that's been made redundant by phones, they're a waste of silicon for how thermally limited they are

>>724988250 (OP)
When will we get a Vita sized handheld pc? I love my Ally, but it is kinda big and heavy

>>724988250 (OP)
>Posts Lynx, Express, Nomad, etc that were all fuck huge

STFU u faggot. Also Deck and Switch 2 is so comfy to hold.

>>724989261
Puffy....

>>724990491
PC? Not any time soon. Android devices have already landed on the Vita form factor for their current flagships though.

>>724988250 (OP)
the only ones with gimmicks were the DS and by extension the 3DS. no idea what you mean by quirks outside of that

>>724990491
you're getting proton on android
that form factor is too small for cooling and no one is wasting silicon to fight with phones

They still exist, they're called the Switch, Switch 2, and Steam Deck, you should get them.

>>724988250 (OP)
If you didn't buy the Vita, shut the fuck up.

>>724988250 (OP)
Buy an SP, buy an EZflash Omega. Now you have the entire GB, GBC, and GBA library along with any and all romhacks and fangames.

>>724990491
>Bottom sticks
Why do retards keep doing this stupid shit? These things are always so poorly designed that your thumbs/palms end up hitting the sticks when you're working the buttons and Dpad

>>724991672
So you want them to be Wii U layout?

>>724991736
Yes. Top sticks and triggers for 3D games. Dpad and Buttons on the bottom for 2D games. It's that simple but they don't do it because people think "PlayStation layout" is good and not just forced on people because don't refuse to pay for a new PS1 controller design with the dual shock.

>>724991672
Most of these systems have specs targeting d-pad centric emulation. The Retroid Pocket 6 has the option to get top stick or bottom stick to make this no longer a complaint.

>>724991818
I actually agree but it's just so vastly unpopular compared to Xbox and PS layouts. The Flip 2 is actually laid out like this but it's still not perfectly ergonomic due to the lack of grips.

I can't really play turn based RPGs unless I'm playing them handheld. Too many nights as a lonely child with a GBA. Marche did nothing wrong.

>>724990019
Ordering my own chinkheld soon. Probs going to do this one. They just look so comfy.

>>724990196
>just get off with touch screens
oh fuck right off, it's absolute ASS to play games like Metroid on GBA that require directions, A/B, and shoulder buttons at the same time
A modern non-redwizard-chinkshit phone with slide out controls would be kino, but for now a stretchy bluetooth controller is the best we've got. I got one and being able to play literally every Tony Hawk game on one device is pretty sick
Some of the dedicated emulation handhelds look neat but I've never seen the benefit over phone+controller or even a hacked Switch

>>724992924
Those things tend to cap at PSX, Do you need to joystick? The single Joystick? You can save some bucks without that

>>724993672
I probably don't need it but I like the option just in case. Especially if I feel like playing some N64 games

>>724991615

i can do all that on a smartphone that is over 10 years old

>>724988250 (OP)
Have you tried one of these, OP?

>>724988250 (OP)
Nostalgiablind

People hated these by the end

>>724988250 (OP)
Tons of pretty good chinaman handhelds out. Ayn Thor looks solid, I'm considering getting one.