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kupomogli said:
darkknightkryta said:

I'm not wrong, the entire purpose of dedicated handhelds was to bring console gaming on the go.  The original gameboy was a dumping ground for nes titles.  GBA was a snes port machine, DS started off as an n64 port machine.  The 3DS's biggest early titles were ports of n64 titles.  The Game Gear was a master system based handheld with sonics and other titles that were trying their best to be close to their handheld titles, PSP started off with a slew of PS2 ports or side games.  Same with the Vita.  So how am I wrong?

Start up a thread asking about it and add a poll.  The majority of the time, most people probably play their portables at home where they have access to another console.  That's why there is such a big issue about portables having ports of home console games, since who really cares about home console games when you're at home when playing the games.

Again, my counter argument is that you take these ports on the go.  Train rides, bus rides, spare time while at school, vacations, that's why these handhelds were created.  Are you right about playing handhelds at home?  Of course, but that's not why handhelds were created in the first place.  Hell look at the 3DS, most if not all the games would be better on consoles, or were console titles.  Ocarina of Time port, Star Fox port, Kingdom Hearts is a reskinned Kingdom Hearts 2, Monster Hunter 4 is a sequel to a console series that got big by console ports, same with the Vita, same with the PSP and same for EVERY handheld created since the gameboy.