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Intrinsic on 06 January 2019
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drinkandswim said:
zorg1000 said:

Ya it seems like powerful handhelds have consistently been ~7-8 years behind powerful consoles.

Game Gear released in 1990 and was on par with the 1983 consoles (NES/SG-1000).

Sega Nomad released in 1995 and was essentially a portable Sega Genesis (1988).

N-Gage released in 2003 and had similar visuals as Saturn/PS1 (1995).

PSP released in 2004 and was pretty just under Dreamcast (1998).

Vita released in 2011 and was somewhere in between 6th gen (00/01) & 7th gen (05/06) consoles so about as powerful as a 2003 home console would have been.

Switch released in 2017 and is somewhere between 7th gen (05/06) & 8th gen (2013) consoles so about as powerful as a 2009/2010 would have been.

 

Nothing has changed in this regard.

Its true in that regard. Its just all we have seen so far in consoles is the extra power going towards the resolution jump from 1080P to 4K and FPS improvements. Which are great improvements, but there is a large audience for gaming on the go.

No. 

That is very very very far from all we have seen.

Resolution is NOT the only difference between PS3/360 (7th gen) games and PS4/XB1(8th gen) games. When comparing this new thing of having Pro consoles then yes the main differences are rez and FPS.

And when the PS5/XB4 is out, there will be games on those platforms that the current PS4/XB1 can't run And trust me the NS won't be able to run them either, and neither will the NS2.

But this also doesn't matter. Truth be told you can make your argument soundly without having to pit the NS or mobile in general against home consoles. There is a large audience for gaming on the go.... that has always been true and will continue being true. And the simple truth is that the gamers that prioritize mobility over home console gaming don't even care as much abut the kinda stuff the home gaming crowd cares about. Like not a single person bought the NS because it plays games at 1080p/900p. If its max rez was 720p it would have sold just the same.