Gaming handhelds are becoming tedious

[deleted fren]

I don't get it. You have 1k machines like the rog ally 2 where the "handheld" is the size of a brick and it has the battery life of a fly. Yes, the machine itself is extremely powerful, but at what cost? You barely can play it in a portable fashion and you'll most likely always be connected to a charger which limits the comfort you'll experience while playing it. At that point, you could get a gaming LAPTOP with better specs.

The switch 2 is portable, but has an absolutely shit battery life and is massive. I don't get the point. If you can barely take it outside the house, it's huge, and the battery life is so shit it's hard to play comfortably, then what's the benefit of it being a handheld?

I'll still play my PS Vita or 3DS over my switch in portable mode just because they're more comfortable to play casually due to their smaller form factor. If I play my switch in portable mode for an extended period of time my hands will start aching.

 

[Todd Thundercock]

It's amazing that recent handhelds are cooled within such tiny space already. With cooling and a battery, there's not much you do to make it smaller. And that performance is wasted if the screen isn't big enough.

The only option is drastically less performance.

Then, logistically it stops making sense since everyone has a phone.

There's been decent consoles that were also phones like N-Gage and that Playstation one, but they flopped.

 

[anon65]

No reason for handhelds if you never leave your room, just build a pc

 

[starystulejarz]

I see no appeal of them. All of them are too huge and too heavy. I have phone and can emulate some old psp/gamecube/ps1/snes games. Better phones can emulate ps2 or even switch and pc games through winslator.

 

[deleted fren]

It's amazing that recent handhelds are cooled within such tiny space already. With cooling and a battery, there's not much you do to make it smaller. And that performance is wasted if the screen isn't big enough.

The only option is drastically less performance.

Then, logistically it stops making sense since everyone has a phone.

There's been decent consoles that were also phones like N-Gage and that Playstation one, but they flopped.

I frankly don't care about what's most popular. The switch is extremely popular and I hate it's form factor. I wish that Nintendo had made a successor to the 3ds with less power. Unfortunately, things didn't play out that way so now we're stuck in a race to see who can make the most powerful brick.

No reason for handhelds if you never leave your room, just build a pc

True.

Or get a gaming laptop.

I see no appeal of them. All of them are too huge and too heavy. I have phone and can emulate some old psp/gamecube/ps1/snes games. Better phones can emulate ps2 or even switch and pc games through winslator.

Same. There's chink android handhelds you can do that with as well.

 

[iloveporn]

Its 2025 and i still bring my PSP with me wherever i go

 

[Xul]

Playing pc games in bed all day is nice

 

[friedrllyudidntknow]

No handheld for your face

 

[TooSomething]

I see no appeal of them. All of them are too huge and too heavy. I have phone and can emulate some old psp/gamecube/ps1/snes games. Better phones can emulate ps2 or even switch and pc games through winslator.

This. My phone can easily emulate PS1 era games.

LOADS of games to choose from. I can easily connect any Xbox type controller via Bluetooth or a wired one designed for android phones.

My phone only cost me 120€.

 

[Cuckoja]

Only use of them is playing while rotting in bed. I agree, i remember taking my NDS everywhere with me, it was so small and tough you could throw it in the pocket and forget it exists. Battery lasted 8+ hours of gameplay. It even beats phone because you have a great controller integrated into such small factor and its a drag to carry a phone controller with you.

 

[Cuckoja]

Its 2025 and i still bring my PSP with me wherever i go

Gigabased, i owned bunch of PSPs, some really rare ones. I loved them to death.

 

[Morphine]

Its 2025 and i still bring my PSP with me wherever i go

I love porn too!

 

[Exhunter45]

I don't get it. You have 1k machines like the rog ally 2 where the "handheld" is the size of a brick and it has the battery life of a fly. Yes, the machine itself is extremely powerful, but at what cost? You barely can play it in a portable fashion and you'll most likely always be connected to a charger which limits the comfort you'll experience while playing it. At that point, you could get a gaming LAPTOP with better specs.

The switch 2 is portable, but has an absolutely shit battery life and is massive. I don't get the point. If you can barely take it outside the house, it's huge, and the battery life is so shit it's hard to play comfortably, then what's the benefit of it being a handheld?

I'll still play my PS Vita or 3DS over my switch in portable mode just because they're more comfortable to play casually due to their smaller form factor. If I play my switch in portable mode for an extended period of time my hands will start aching.

3ds battery life was not that good and all you can do it is wait for battery technology to get better

 

[Antorian]

Gameboy line and the Nintendo DS line were the best handhelds