Dammit Sony, you just had to improve upon it and then you went and fucked it up with the Vita :/
and now the steamdeck replaced all of them.
honestly with how bulky and heavy it is it's pushing the limits of portability. gone are the days of pocket transport! or maybe I should just get oversized pockets lol
It is more portable than a ps4/5 as some people will say that.
But steamdeck is right now the most "portable" modern device with the best price / performance value. it cant be carried like a ds in your pocket thats for sure but with a nice package it is pretty good to handle.
true true I love mine but I'm always scared to bring it anywhere because I feel like I'm gonna end up dropping it
I can use my phone or tablet as a portable screen for my Xbox
Can even use it as a portable screen for my PC
Why would I want a steam deck vs having a bigger tablet screen and a controller I don't have to stare at?
Portability, but the steamdeck is as portable as my tablet if it can't fit it into a pocket.
But still this scraps on that topic is a bulky ps4/5/xbox PORTABLE for you? Steamddck can stream onto bigger displays too or evem remote play things that are to high gpu intensive onto your main pc.
A tablet cant play games ( except mobile games ) on its own.
It has a nice case for transport and the controlls are the best on the market ( even upgradable / easy to repair ) i would love a "just the controller" part of the steamdeck.
And if you need a tablet + controller + the console itself. THIS is NOT portable in any way or form as you just need a literal backpack full of periphials including power cord to power it 24/7.
jncos ARE coming back
My niece showed up to Thanksgiving in a pair of them and was lecturing her brother on how he doesn't understand baggy clothes. I was like I lived through the last time these were popular and I still don't understand it.
Or even just the phone Steam Link app + controller grip (ex. gamesir-x2)
laughs in Steamdeck
Huh excuse me?! Have you seen the handle on the GameCube?
The Vita stands as the best when hacked and paired with a sd2vita.
Now, but when it was released, it sucked. I think it's biggest downfall was they didn't add a UMD drive to it so it wasn't backwards compatible with any of the PSP games. If they kept that, it might have sold well.
Not to mention those stupid overpriced memory cards.
PS Vita is a straight upgrade
PS Vita is a straight down~~up~~grade
FTFY
No no... They have a point.
I love my PSP. Best console ever. But the vita could do all of it and more.
It just also was so powerful that game developers didn't want to put the effort in but not powerful enough to straight port games to.
It had solid state storage that was proprietary though that was overpriced and impossible to find.
So no games to support it. No sales to bring down production costs...
It floundered hard. But as my emulator handheld with mods to let it take SD cards it's easier to pull out than almost anything else and a catalog of PlayStation games and more... It was an upgrade just Sony failed it.
You forgot the best upgrade, dual joysticks!
It was a gimmicky touch pad, the no drive is a negative, without that there was 0 backwards compatibility with the PSPs large library. Which I peg as the main reason it floundered so hard
OLED, 3G and better wifi could have easily been added to a 4th gen PSP iteration
Wait what are you on about? You can play literally ever PSP game ever with adrenaline.
They could play PSP games big issue was buying them again and not being able to download them on the unaffordable memory.
If it had games constantly coming out like the switch did when it first launched it would have been very similar. And if it had storage that was affordable doubly so.
Instead it had the pricing of full consoles for games and few of them from the development costs. Sony failed to bring the games Nintendo does and that killed it far worse than a lack of a spinning disk drive that skipped if you shook it hard enough.
How? UMD was shit, vitas display was a huge upgrade. The analogue sticks were better... I gifted my son the Vita last year and it still holds up. Couldn't do that with my PSP cause it's broken.
The UMD, was decent enough, it was optical after all. The problem was they took it away for a gimmicky rear touchpad and in turn locked out all backwards compatibility with PSP games. Which in turn, led to its ultimate downfall because it didn't have the big backfill of a library when it REALLY needed it to head off the rising smartphone competition (Vita released in 2012)
Display and sticks were better yea, but nothing groundbreaking that couldn't have been included on a 4th gen PSP iteration.
Also the UI was shit, they replaced the nice XMR/CBR (Whatever it was called) with those stupid bubbles.
I still have mine!
Sony’s industrial design is second to none. The PSP still feels amazing to hold, despite being an antique.
PSP really was the shit man.
From chains of Olympus to birth by sleep to dungeon siege trone.
Than the vita came and fucked it all up, used it for two games, danganronpa 2 and binding of Isaac.
Fr, it truly felt like I was just playing a pocket version of a PS3. I took mine EVERYWHERE, and played it WAY more than my DS lol
And those "portals" you could load on to the memory stick and access via the web browser with games n shit lol
Idiot. All I need is a Nokia with snake
Nah they fucked it up with the sliding PSP Go. If they continued and improved on the original PSP design, it would most likely be competing with the Switch at the moment.
Serious question because I never had any handhelds back in that era, but what made the Vita suck? I've heard there's some great games on it despite opinions about the console and it's always been unanimous that the PSP was great, but how did Sony screw it up? Not going out and buying either one right now, but I never really see specific reasons mentioned.
They dropped the UMD drive and replaced it with that gimmicky rear touchpad thing is probably the biggest reason.
They dropped something incredibly functional and would have given the Vita access to the entire library of PSP games at a time when it needed that library the most to compete against the smartphone (Vita was released in 2012)
I think the 3DS/DS were able to remain dominant so long even in the face of strong competition from the rise of the smartphone was because of the deep library of older titles to keep it going forward.
nah bro it was Nokia N-Gage
Nah, DS Lite was the sweet spot. Best of both worlds with GBA and DS game selection, pocket sized.
Shame the hinges crap out on it though.
I said a read portable console!: a smartphone
I do love my Switch Lite tho. Never had a single issue with it, while my wife's normal Switch can't keep working joycons to save its life. Vampire Survivors does bog the framerate occasionally though.
Where is the Gameboy Micro?
Or did it already win and this is for second place?
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