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[โ€“] addie@feddit.uk 46 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Yeah, reminds me of the original Gameboy. Weak hardware, terrible screen, great battery life, awesome first-party support, stupidly robust. Sold a hundred million or so. Up against the Game Gear and Atari Lynx, which although basically miniature consoles, had an unquenchable hunger for batteries and crap games. Complete turkeys. All of Nintendo's other, very successful, handhelds continue the same idea; yes, a Switch is really underpowered compared to the newest Playstation, but that's not it's niche.

Yes; you can pack more powerful hardware into the space that a Deck, or a Switch, or even your phone, takes up. But is the amount of fun you get from that device increased in reasonable proportion to its increased cost?

[โ€“] Diasl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago

You could have had a miniaturised nuclear reactor and I still don't think it would have kept up with the game gears appetite ๐Ÿ˜ great little device but missed the mark on intended use.

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