TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee 1 day ago
A bit of topic, but it pains me to see how powerful high end phones got. Like most people just use them to text and scroll social media. Why do people spend that much money?!
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
There are plenty handhelds in all shapes and sizes in that price range for exactly this. How many more do we need?
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.
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.
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.
Or just use a phone that’s a couple years old
I ended up buying a cheap controller that clamps to my phone and run emulators. It works way better than I ever expected.
Why do people spend that much money?!
Conditioning. They have more money so they spend it proportionally.
Who doesn’t want to spend £50+ a month to doom scroll…
Yeah, I pay like $15/month to doom scroll.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 7 hours ago
theres also isnt much difference, so the higher end , aka flagship ones are slightly better than the previous editions. no need to spend 800-1k+, i bought a OPR12 instead.