Handheld gaming is the future — again
www.theverge.com
The Switch and the Steam Deck are just the beginning of the handheld era.

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.

  • David_Eight@lemmy.world
    101·
    1 year ago

    Not to mention every other handheld that’s sold like gangbusters in the past.

    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.

    • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz
      9·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip
        51·
        1 year ago

        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.

    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • David_Eight@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          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… :/

      • David_Eight@lemmy.world
        62·
        1 year ago

        A total of 22 games sold over a one million copies on the PSP. The number of PSPs sold is irrelevant, the number of games is what matters because most consoles are sold at cost or a loss. People bought the PSP because it was great at running homebrew games. Sony locked that down on the Vita and it sold way worse.

        And then you provided a list of other failed attempts to get a piece of the Nintendo handheld market. Just because it was released doesn’t mean it was successful. If the PSP or any of these other handhelds where profitable they would of had successors sold today.