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
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.
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
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?
Something that can play PS2/GameCube games effortlessly
Maybe even a bit of PS3!
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.
Or just use a phone that’s a couple years old
Yeah, I got an S23 for $400, upgraded from a 7 year old S9
I’d say go on swappa and pick up an S21 for 125 and be ready to go…leave the S23 for doom scrollin.
Why downgrade?
There are plenty handhelds in all shapes and sizes in that price range for exactly this. How many more do we need?
gradual@lemmings.world 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.