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every time one of these idiots predicts that gaming will change forever, it’s just gaming expands into new areas and the market size grows. it’s not the future, hell handhelds are nothing new, it’s barely even a new thing.

it is bringing in a lot of users though

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CmdrShepard@lemmy.one ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
34 years after one of the most popular handhelds was released “these things are the future of gaming!!1!.”

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olmec@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I think the distinction is that starting with the Switch, handheld gaming has been a different experience. Sure, you could play Super Mario World on you Game Boy Advance on the go, but that was a decade after the game had been released. Now, you get the modern Mario game on your handheld, and it is the exact same game and the exact same time as the console release. It is a large shift in gaming.

Now, I would argue that this is a step back, as the experience that works best on a a handheld isn’t the best for a home console/PC. That isn’t the point of this article though. The point is that short of some performance loss, the on the go experience is nearly identical to the at home experience.

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- echo64@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  eh, it’s the exact same game because they put a video out on a handheld. No one thinks of the switch in the same world as a ps5/xboxwhatever - it fits in that same place that handhelds have always lived.
  
  it’s a very good handheld, with a video out. It’s not the diametric shift that is proposed.
  
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