Dear me when having surround sound with great bass is what is needed for a console then everything up until the X360/ps3 were not consoles since titles before that had dolby in cutscenes but almost never in game, also a big screen allows multiple people to play it so that makes a console a real console? but... that would suggest that consoles are focusing on couch co-op now? I mean... the feature which was removed from Halo 5 completely because as people suggested "just isn't used by people anymore" so I guess that means the range of consoles which would fall into the category of having surround sound and also supporting couch multiplayer really was just 2 of the systems from the 7th generation lol, that is some fantastic logic.

Also when people suggest that handhelds are not considered consoles because of inferior power, keep in mind that the GBC had a processor almost double that of the Super Nintendo in terms of sheer Mhz speed in it... not to mention the fact that if you only consider a system to be considered worthy of gaming console when it has the most power... no actual console has ever rivaled the year equivilant PC in terms of sheer horsepower meaning that no console... has ever been worthy of the title "Console".

As for the OP I'm in agreement with you, playing some titles on the Vita's glorious OLED screen in bed with headphones on is one of the most immersive ways of playing games, that screen just makes gaming great when it comes to horror like Resident Evil revelations being able to fully get down to a true black screen for segments makes a gaming experience far superior to what most gamers will experience playing on LCD or LED TVs in their living rooms.

Because no one is buying dedicated handheld gaming devices anymore and there is no real incentive for most publishers to bring games there.

Especially when the core audience is on Console/PC.

This is true in a lot of cases but one brand alone completely turns this theory on its head sadly, Pokemon, arguably the biggest gaming brand in the world right now, the only place you can find a true Pokemon game? On a handheld system, the N64, GC, Wii and even Wii-U all have console spin offs of the franchise and for the most part they are an absolute shadow of the true experience only available on handheld systems.

1/3rd of hardware tracked on the front page is dedicated Handheld systems 112k handhelds compared to 248k consoles. This statement is factually wrong.

I'd guess because core gamers like big, expensive, and technically superb games and you can't get that on handhelds. There are some types of games that are definitely better suited to gaming on the go in my opinion but these are not the games people on gaming forums like.

People on here dislike Pokemon?

Most of the time they don't offer the same type of experiences as consoles, but that has changed with each gen.

Because they need to put it down something that they doesn't like, to make something that they do like looks superior.

That is how it works, even when it's only between home consoles, wich is sad. It's like the thing that they like can shine by itself so they have to put dirt on the others

I'm still trying to work this out... a positive to my negative comment... meaning they dislike Pokemon, but... a negative to pretending that Pokemon Don't exist... so a double negative meaning that Pokemon does exist.

My poor little Irish brain can't handle this!

Pokemon do exist! My Phone has shown me that various rattata and weedles live in my house!

If you like that, try Lone Survivor on Vita at night with the lights off and headphones on