There’s always been a big gap between the games playable on portable vs non-portable devices. The switch was a big jump forward to making true current Gen games portable, but outside of Nintendo’s offerings it’s still rare for new releases to have a comparable switch port.
We’re currently in new territory imo where most new games (outside of some really terribly optimized ones) are truly playable on portable devices.
David_Eight@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Have they though, other than Nintendo. If the PS Vita was making Sony so much money, why no successor? As far I know, the Steam Deck is the only successful non-Nintendo handheld ever.
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
PS Vita should have had a successor man, it was such a beast of a hand held for it’s time. It’s true fault was being against the Nintendo 3DS (and also Sony’s dumbass proprietary memory card prices for it). I pulled mine out a few months ago to play Hotline Miami.
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Being against the 3ds wasnt a fault, it was initially an opportunity (the launch 3ds sold terribly, that nintendo had to apologize and give early adopters the early ambassador titles for free). Sony chose to willingly not capitalize on it.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There’s phones, which have been fairly successful as gaming platforms. Nintendo has ignored that market for now. At least I think so, I’m not really up to date on the console front.
David_Eight@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah that’s fair. Pokemon Go was Nintendo and I think they have some other mobile games, idk phone gaming isn’t really my thing.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Oh, I’d completely forgotten about that.
I don’t really do phone games either. The deck is the farthest I’ve been from proper PC gaming.
thorbot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Uhh yeah.
David_Eight@lemmy.world 11 months ago
A total of 22 games sold over a one million copies on the PSP. The number of PSPs sold is irrelevant, the number of games is what matters because most consoles are sold at cost or a loss. People bought the PSP because it was great at running homebrew games. Sony locked that down on the Vita and it sold way worse.
And then you provided a list of other failed attempts to get a piece of the Nintendo handheld market. Just because it was released doesn’t mean it was successful. If the PSP or any of these other handhelds where profitable they would of had successors sold today.
thorbot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Okay buddy, if 80 million units isn’t successful I don’t know what to tell you, guess we have different definitions of success.