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Forums - Gaming Discussion - Why don't people talk about handhelds as much as console?

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.



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Well handheld isnt for me. I have the vita and the switch and after giving it a fair share of time, I realized the small screen doesnt do it for me. I use my switch 100% as a console.



I tried to discuss Handheld's here, and talk about ways to keep handhelds relevant, but the community is just not into portable gaming.

Now that we only have the Switch in the Handheld market, and it has very few games I am interested in, while lacking most of the features found on PSP/PS Vita and Consoles like 360/PS3/XBO/PS4, there is just not much to say.

Hopefully, at some point in the future we will see Sony or Microsoft attempt another Handheld. The Switch has proven that a solid library of games can sell a Portable device. Deliver basic features like 5G, Calling & Texting, along with the rest of the standard features from PS4/XBO, and both companies would have a more than profitable addition to their ecosystems.

With a unified library across the Home & Mobile XBox/PlayStation devices, and features that make the, viable in everyday life, people would talk a lot more about Mobile/Handheld games. Who wouldn't love to be enjoying Grand Theft Auto 5, Call of Duty, Horizon Zero Dawn, Assassin's Creed Odyessy, Forza Horizon 4, and so many more titles on the go?



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Don't they have a stigma as being for kids in the west?



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