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

[IkePoR]

torok said:

IkePoR said:

Thought I made it pretty clear I was talking about exclusives, seeing as I mentioned it multiple times in that post.  But to make it clear, I am talking about exclusives, games I really can't play anywhere else.

Why? It doesn't seems fair. You can't play most of these games on the handheld, so if we are comparing handhelds to home consoles using all games is a fair comparison. If you replaced the PS4 with the X1 the result would be the same, so his point is completely valid.

Not invalidating his point, just stating that it isn't relevant to mine.  It's "fair" because this thread is discussing the validity of portable consoles, with many arguemnets in the case of their invalidity being "they're not as pretty".  My counter to that is portables(in this case the 3DS) stand alone/exclusive libraries are hard to rival.  But as I said in the original post, discussing this is a headache as the subjectivity and straw-manning slowly starts to creep in the more you talk about it(not that anyone has done so yet).

Ka-pi96 said:

IkePoR said:
Wow, this thread. Have people who besmirch portables actually played one in the last 5 years? 

I played one yesterday actually. Can I go back to besmirching now?

Sure.