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This is primarily a podcast, but there is a short article with it. Also worth noting, this podcast came out before the Steam Deck OLED was announced, although it’s possible the participants knew of its existence considering they had an early review unit.
“Handheld gaming is the future!”
Meanwhile Nintendo alone has already sold 132 million Switches in the past. Not to mention every other handheld that’s sold like gangbusters in the past.
What a stupid ass story
It’s funny that people are arguing against you when the DS, Switch, and Gameboy/GBC are the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th top selling gaming consoles of all time. Like yeah, they’re all Nintendo consoles, but if other companies put in the same effort and marketing, they’d likely have similar results.
Yeah, sometime people just want to be contrarian on the internet. Handheld gaming has been a massive success over the years
Have they though, other than Nintendo. If the PS Vita was making Sony so much money, why no successor? As far I know, the Steam Deck is the only successful non-Nintendo handheld ever.
There’s phones, which have been fairly successful as gaming platforms. Nintendo has ignored that market for now. At least I think so, I’m not really up to date on the console front.
Yeah that’s fair. Pokemon Go was Nintendo and I think they have some other mobile games, idk phone gaming isn’t really my thing.
Oh, I’d completely forgotten about that.
I don’t really do phone games either. The deck is the farthest I’ve been from proper PC gaming. I’m not very multiplatform… :/
PS Vita should have had a successor man, it was such a beast of a hand held for it’s time. It’s true fault was being against the Nintendo 3DS (and also Sony’s dumbass proprietary memory card prices for it). I pulled mine out a few months ago to play Hotline Miami.
Being against the 3ds wasnt a fault, it was initially an opportunity (the launch 3ds sold terribly, that nintendo had to apologize and give early adopters the early ambassador titles for free). Sony chose to willingly not capitalize on it.
There’s always been a big gap between the games playable on portable vs non-portable devices. The switch was a big jump forward to making true current Gen games portable, but outside of Nintendo’s offerings it’s still rare for new releases to have a comparable switch port.
We’re currently in new territory imo where most new games (outside of some really terribly optimized ones) are truly playable on portable devices.