Isn't it weird how handhelds aren't a thing anymore?

Isn't it weird how handhelds aren't a thing anymore?

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Mobile games are bigger than ever right now

mobile games aren't games

Because shitty games developed for the smartphone/tablet audience is where the market went.
Or at the very least, that's what devs are pushing for. Those microtransaction-based games pull in a lot of retards who'll buy literally fucking anything.

Most of the world doesn't give a shit about that kind of gatekeeping. Why would a normie spend $200 for a 3DS and some games when they can just download a bunch of free apps on their phone?

you see that thing in the back?
it's a current handheld, and it's extremely popular

because you can't play games that require more than one button on a touch screen without it being unplayable

>gatekeeping
Back to wherever you came from.

No, mobile took over entirely and the few traditional handhelds that existed in the same period (3DS and vita) did extremely poorly in comparison to their earlier counterparts, and they didn't justify new systems. Switch is pretty much the last gasp for dedicated handheld gaming, as phones are getting more and more powerful. All it would take is someone actually optimizing for a phone and we could get some pretty demanding games. Emulation for every system up to gen 5 and some gen 6 is pretty great.

If you can know about the term gatekeeping and also know that it's from reddit without being from there yourself, why cant I? :^)

the switch exists

Since when did the Switch stop existing?

I didn't even mention reddit. I know the word gatekeeping from niggers like you who drag it into every fucking hobby ever so you can stop people from shaming your ruining of the hobby with your casual horseshit.

It's sad. Fuck gacha shit, fuck apple, and fuck soccer moms that play candy crush

they are more games than the movies sony puts out

The Switch is the only console Nintendo as right now. If handhelds "weren't a thing" anymore, they'll be in serious trouble.

It's kind of sad, honestly. So many great games were designed around handhelds, and we won't get to see new games made like that any more.

I wasn't defending mobile games. I was just saying how the normies think. To them incremental clicker games on their phone as just as valid as a complex jrpg on a 3DS.
Also I'm white so pls dont call me a nigger again.

Tell that to the whales devs are marketing towards.

SAD

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How the fuck can anyone unironically say this when the switch exists?

sony movie games, games with animation delay, and anime mobile games are all just as bad

Why did the normalfags have to ruin my hobby
Theres not even any non sjw ruined hobbys left
We can always play old game but its fuckign,depressing

My PSP was everything to me. I have no fucking idea where it is. I used it to watch porn for the first time, downloaded anime OSTs on it. It was the first gaming system I modded. I beat Mother 3 on it with gpsp-kai, and I downloaded an EBOOT of FFVII and beat it for the first time during a family roadtrip. Shit was so cash. What a great handheld. I wanna go back...

I recently found my psp go and saw I was last playing golden sun. Bought a new battery and will be hitting that shit again

Switch is slowly catching up.

But there is never bringing back past times.

why there is a pic of persona 5 inn the vita?

The switch isn't a handheld, it's battery doesn't even last as long as a fucking phone when playing games. That's pathetic. It's about as portable as the wii u's gamepad, too.

It's the Persona 5 Vita port.

i think the vita let you stream games from the ps4 on to it and vice versa.

Phones and Switch
Now delete this thread.

Mobilefag here.
I don't care what you got to say.
Seethe more, and go start a Twitter screencap thread to make yourself feel better.

Cellphones have made portable consoles redundant. I don't say this out of malice: It's merely the truth.
The DS and Vita have joined the PDA, the Digital Camera and the Netbook.

Once there is a phone released that is optimized for gaming (in other words not just having some garbage touch screen) mobile systems barring hybrids like the Switch will be completely redundant.

No one is interested in a phone exclusively for gayming. A majority of the current console/PC audience doesn't give a shit about mobile games, and free to play gachashit with shallow gameplay loops that live and die on their constant content releases by selling themselves as a ""service"" much like the current AAA games do don't necessarily need either buttons or top of the line hardware.
The markets don't intersect as hard as you'd like to believe, but most people don't have interest in a real portable nowadays, that's true. Consoles live and die through their casual audience and without a revised budget or a plan to support exclusively a niche you'll just end with a Vita 2.0

Based