Dammit Sony, you just had to improve upon it and then you went and fucked it up with the Vita :/

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    5 days ago

    I enjoyed my Vita for its portability, and I didn’t even jailbreak it to emulate games. For a long time, any indie dev releasing on PS3 would put their game on Vita as well.

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      7 days ago

      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

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        I bought myself an Anbernic, and I’m very pleased. GB pocket sized, can run PS1 and less demanding Dreamcast games

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        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.

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          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.

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            Have you tried it? It’s quite nice. It plays all my favorite retro games via emulation and most modern games I care about. I can dock it and use a controller and bigger screen. Oh, it also functions as a pretty solid desktop solution if I want.

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            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.

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              I don’t need to bring my Xbox around. Simply open the xbox app and my Xbox screen is now on my tablet anywhere I’m at.

              My tablet can stream onto bigger displays or even stream my PC.

              You don’t need to carry around the console

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                  The Xbox processes the game.

                  Tablet just streams screen and sends inputs from/to Xbox.

                  So you don’t really need an extreme tablet/phone/laptop

                  Im bringing my tablet/phone anywhere I’m going, so having a steamdeck would just be an extra thing to carry and worry about charging.

                  You can do on-screen controls that aren’t bad for some games. Otherwise, Xbox controller.

                  The controller in the steamdeck has to kill its battery life some. 2 extra AA batteries, and I could use my Xbox controller for weeks.

                  I’d rather have 4x the screen size and not have to hold it the entire time while being semi-mobile. I’m not going to walk around and play on a steamdeck, maybe some do and then that’s a plus on the steamdeck.

                  Steam deck is nice and I can see why people enjoy it. My thing is why more people don’t like tablet/phone/laptop gaming and talk about the steamdeck like it’s a game changer.

                  My tablet is basically my PC at home. I can access and do everything remotely, including gaming.

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                  Steam link is not cloud gaming. Steam link serves the game from your own PC, not a server in the cloud.

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    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.

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      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

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    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.

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      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.

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        Great, thank you! Yeah, dropping the UMD seems asinine when they were struggling to provide a library and demand.

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    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.

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    I liked mine, but it was the only thing that gave me eye strain as a kid. I would play battlefront for half an hour, look up, and couldn’t see shit

    Maybe I was just playing it wrong