Why are handhelds often seen as inferior or not as important as home consoles?

[Ganoncrotch]

Goodnightmoon said:

kyprime said:

sorry to break you bubble, but handhelds/mobile are INFERIOR to pc/consoles, THAT'S A FACT, or do you want to argue with me how some handheld noname gpu/cpu is more powerful than a gtx 1080/i7 extreme?

He is not talking about power, jesus, seems like some people is unable to think in anymore than power when talking about consoles, is just sad.

Yeah pretty much this for me really overall here, if someone thinks that the SNES had zero good games on it because it was running a 2.79mhz CPU in it or the PSone wasn't capable of a good game with its 33Mhz chip.

Heck even if you look at the less beefy 3DS compared to the Playstation 2's hardware the 3DS runs circles around it in terms of raw power and memory capacity.

Point I'm trying to make is all those systems were perfectly capable of creating fantastic games if it's a case of you need to have the absolute max CPU/GPU to consider a machine worthy of gaming... then only the PC can ever really qualify as a games machine. (I'm not saying this is the case because I'll happily play games on the original DS still whenever I'm in the loo! but still just pointing out the weakness in the "it needs powah for me to consider it a gaemz machine" logic)