Why don't people talk about handhelds as much as console?

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Typically developers, especially western developers, have focused on consoles for their bigger releases. There were very few high profile games for handhelds before Pokemon aside from a handful of Nintendo titles, and even those were mainly lesser versions of their console titles. Handhelds didn't really start getting "big" games until the DS and PSP era, and even then most major releases were on consoles.