You can buy handhelds for like $100 that have basically every console game up to and including ps2/ds preloaded. What else would you need?
If anything, it makes me wonder why we don’t have more small dedicated handheld gaming devices that aren’t phones or pseudocomputers and don’t cost a bomb.
Like a £220 PSP/GBA/DS-like device with decent first-party support would be really nice for me imo
emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
tobz619@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Something that can play PS2/GameCube games effortlessly
Maybe even a bit of PS3!
emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
www.goretroid.com/…/retroid-pocket-4-handheld
Can play gamecube/wii games and most ps2. Ps3 you’re gonna have problems with even with a steamdeck sometimes.
7arakun@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The Switch Lite is exactly this. $200 handheld that runs first party games. There are android handhelds like the Retroid pocket 5 as well.
A Steam Deck Lite would be incredible. Small, cheap, linux-based, and powerful enough to run indie games and some light 3D. I think that form factor basically needs an arm cpu though.
tobz619@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, I’m taking a look at the RP5 it looks quite good. I wish its GameCube Performance was better but this might be the one for me :D
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2 days ago
There are plenty handhelds in all shapes and sizes in that price range for exactly this. How many more do we need?
teamevil@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Or just use a phone that’s a couple years old
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, I got an S23 for $400, upgraded from a 7 year old S9
teamevil@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’d say go on swappa and pick up an S21 for 125 and be ready to go…leave the S23 for doom scrollin.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Why downgrade?
gradual@lemmings.world 3 days ago
Because we already have phones.
The solution is to release games for phones that require a controller, but most companies aren’t willing to be the first ones to do it.
Elevator7009@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
I’m probably part of the problem. I’ve never used a controller except a few times at friends’ houses. I grew up with Nintendo DS, Wii, PC, and smartphone games. I don’t want to ever have to pick up a controller.
pory@lemmy.world 2 days ago
With a phone, there’s a type of controller that wraps around the phone, turning it into a Switch form factor. That’s probably the middle ground between atrocious touchscreen d-pads (or only playing games that actually work well with touch controls) versus lugging around a Dualsense and some mount contraption or kickstanding your phone on a surface.
Elevator7009@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I’ve never had trouble with touch screen D-pads ^^; again part of the problem I suppose, because it seems by your post people hate the things I’m genuinely satisfied with. I hope the general controller-liking population gets things to serve their needs too, though.