Gaming @beehaw.org sleepybisexual @beehaw.org 7 mo. ago

Maybe hot take: as a handheld, the regular switch is an awful handheld

Have you ever held a switch? Its long, flat and the controllers suck. Awful dpad and bad sticks.

Its almost comical, for a small stick the 3ds stick is better than any joycon stick.

And also, internal storage being only 32 GB, and cart games being downloaded in full to the system.

The switch is a mess. At least the games emulate well.

That's not even going into the online ransom shit.

And the dock sucks too. Would it have killed Nintendo to add like 2 more USB ports and an Ethernet port.

And not related but powera can eat shit

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I find I very rarely use it as a handheld. I find it kind of heavy and awkward to hold after longer periods of time. I kinda wish Nintendo made another 3ds, lol. I'm extremely curious about what they're going to do for the switch successor
- I'd go even farther back - make another GBA
  
  I want both a new GBA and a new 3ds.
  
  I think maybe I just want a GBA
  
  Which is probably currently available if I look around
  
  I want a GBA, but the money to get one is not worth it.
  
  A GBA is not worth 100 euros to me.
  
  That's true, especially since I don't have any of the old physical games.
  
  I might get one of those "retro handhelds" (rg351p, PowKiddy, etc) one day. Those at least seem much more reasonable, and probably sport more open architecture
  
  I'm big into those, you want some recommendations?
  
  Hell yes!! I would love that. I'm definitely looking for something lofi - like even playing SNES games would probably be overkill. Bonus points if it can play contemporary retro games, like for PICO-8
  
  OK, so yih looking for something that can do SNES well, that would be low power, unless you wanna have newer systems,
  
  So I need answers for these 4 questions
  
  What shape you want?
  
  What budget?
  
  How much power do you want!
  
  What os do you want?
  
  For SNES the cheaper end will work
  
  Smaller the better, not wide like a Switch or Stream Deck.
  
  Under 200 CAD, but flexible for the right device
  
  Limited 3D but no more. Like FX chip level
  
  Linux? Hopefully I understood the question
  
  Thanks for taking this time!
  
  OK, I have some ideas.
  
  For all of SNES and some other stuff as a bonus the ambernic rg35xxh seems like it'd be a good fit. Tho it is horizontal. About 80-90 USD I think
  
  The rg35xx is similar but vertical with no sticks
  
  For something that's like 40 USD ish there's the powkiddy v90.
  
  Tho for 200 cad that's like mid range tier. But most powerful ones are landscape.
  
  A good yt channel is retro game corps.
  
  My personal machine is the retroid pocket 4 pro. An android handheld that is very powerful, can emulate up to some switch
  
  That would be really interesting. Heck I would even just take people making more games with the gba's restrictions. I've always thought it's super interesting. As developers get used to working with a console or system, we end up rolling into the next generation. So they don't really get to flex their skill as much as I think they probably could.
  
  I sometimes wonder what we would see if older consoles had another 7 years of life added to them. I try not to think about it too hard or I get kinda sad about the games we'll never see lol

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