Less than two weeks after Nintendo pulled the plug on the Wii U and 3DS marketplaces people are already lining up to buy another proprietary Japanese handheld console that can and will be turned into a paperweight and its games lost to the ether the moment it stops being profitable
Get a Steam Deck or one of the other portable handheld controller style PCs you clowns
Less than two weeks after Nintendo pulled the plug on the Wii U and 3DS marketplaces
Its always morally ethical to pirate any and all Nintendo games. Not that you shouldn't pirate other companies games or anything its just automatically the right thing to do. :sicko-wholesome: :sicko-fem:
I literally downloaded FE: Awakening and played it today on my 3DS for free without issue wdym paperweight???!!?!
Just pay 3 times the price of the entry level Switch.
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Not only that, but the American Steamdeck is, well, very American sized. The Switch is a much more sensible size and weight.
To be fair, I myself would rather get a hacked older console or a Chinese Frankenstein device stitched together from old cell phone parts
Calling it now - new PS handheld is going to be a cloud gaming thing.
Get a Steam Deck or one of the other portable handheld controller style PCs you clowns
Don't forget about the fun Chinese made handhelds for emulation :china:
Cloud gaming = living in a pod and eating bugs, but for video games :sus-torment:
Don’t forget about the fun Chinese made handhelds for emulation
I actually don't really care for Steam Deck type devices but I'd really like to play around with one of those things :pog-fish:
I like how they buttons are unlabelled on the Analogue Pocket 'cause it's stupid to even bother labelling the buttons on an emulation device because they don't actually mean anything unless you only emulate Nintendo games.
"Press the C button to jump"
-A Sega Genesis game on a Nintendo-inspired emulation console
Stuff from Anbernic, Retroid, etc. They're pretty cheap, decently powered ( can emulate up to a limited number of PS2 and GameCube titles).
They're Android and Linux devices intended mainly for emulating old game systems, but some of the nicer ones can also do Android games and streaming.
It seems the companies making them basically build their devices around whatever old screens left over from production of older cellphones or stuff like the PS Vita they can source and combine them with usually modest mobile phone parts. Yeah, even a mid-tier Android phone and an attachable controller would probably do the same or even better but the appeal here is a dedicated emulation device.
They come in various shapes and sizes , and there's a lot of fluctuation in terms of quality and price
This guy had the best info on them back when I bought an Anbernic RG351P over a year ago. They keep pumping out new models, so browsing there is probably the best place to start.
This is what I've heard as well. Honestly doesn't make much sense to me, but if it's Android based it might at least be easier to hack and turn I to an emulation machine.
Of course you then run into the issue of just how overpriced it might be. The streaming handhelds that are meant for the Western market and are readily available in big box stores are hella overpriced.
that can and will be turned into a paperweight and its games lost to the ether the moment it stops being profitable
This is what Nintendo wanted to happen to the 3ds, but it's absolutely not what actually happened. Why do you think Sony will succeed where Nintendo failed?
Sony has better encryption. And Microsoft seems to have even better encryption. Part of it's obviously due to differences in hacker/consumer interest, but my PS4 is hacked and it fucking sucks to use compared to the PS3 and PS3 sucks compared to any Nintendo console, where Nintendos are basically a breeze with little user annoyance to hack. A lot of PS3 stuff hasn't been dumped yet, especially DLC. A lot of DLC's been lost to time as far as we know because they got delisted years ago before people started consciously archiving stuff.
The eshop being depreciated isn't going to brick your japanese proprietary handheld console though.
The battery turning into a spicy pillow is what bricks your handheld.
Getting an old hacked device or hacking it yourself is cool and good
That reminds me, I was given a vita with a dead battery. Time to replace it and load it up with roms. Any recs?
Hack it and get PKGJ so you can just download all of the PS1/PSP/PSVita library
And yeah it'll emulate everything up to PS1 and only start to choke on N64
it can emulate everything up to ps1 basically, so my recommendations are mostly going to be ps1 jrpgs like suikoden, final fantasy, legend of dragoon etc.
yea i hate proprietary hardware!
> Steam Deck
:homer-bye:
It's just a computer in a silly shape at the end of the day though, unless I'm mistaken and Valve's got it locked down somehow
I mean, there's physical games for the 3DS, so calling it a paperweight now is a bit dramatic imo.
Hope those games don't have DLC you liked :troll:
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But if they did you can just pirate that shit
I'm just pessimistically assuming things will continue to be even more cloud-based and harder to crack in the future, leaving less of a chance for the end user to wrestle control of their device
Good news is that most new games suck and are on steam anyway
I getcha. I'm not looking forward to this "all digital" future either.
Honestly I am in that camp. I just miss the compact feel of sony/nintendo handhelds. I know my phone makes them obsolete and it's incredibly consumerist, but I dream of getting a Japanese handheld, even tho I can't and won't be able to afford them anytime soon.
Nvm it appears to be designed to be used exclusively with the ps5 remote play. What a dog shit idea.
just buy one of those controllers that have a thing to hold your phone.
Which is literally any Android handheld with Chiaki or PSplay
I'm proud to pay $600 to Sony for $50 worth of parts, I refuse to purchase the superior and equivalent $200 android device.
Adaptive triggers! But I bet this thing won’t even be based on the over-overpriced pro controller.
Bad news! Razer already beat them to the market! And even that is $30 worth of parts with a $100 price tag.
Just get good at emulation like me and then every platform becomes good at emulating nintendo games :think-about-it:
I've been trying to get Breath of the Wild running all day but I can't get above 20 frames per second :( It looks so fucking good at 3440x1440. I am being teased by a slideshow.
I'm not really sure what the bottleneck is either. I've got 32GB of ram, an AMD 6700XT, and an i7-4770k (8 thread, overclocked to 4.3GHz). This thing eats most Switch games for breakfast. The CPU is a bit old, but it's no slouch.
My guess is the game isn't meant to run at that resolution and thats why it shits the bed. You might just have to settle for its native resolution until Switch emulators improve
For whatever reason, it seems like the WiiU version is what the emulation crowd settled on. It's the one with the most mods (including a 60FPS mod which people seem to run just fine on older hardware). I've just about given up on it. I'm hoping to try the Switch version in a couple different emulators before I go to bed.
Also has the best and up to date version of the Zelda's Ballad mod where you play the entire game as Zelda with great outfits (that aren't oversexualized bullshit most of the tome either).
Whoa, that looks sick! Wish I knew this was a thing before I was 100 hours into the game, but I guess I can finish it out in style at least, and it'll make things fresher.
Recommend doing another playthrough with it instead. Maybe on Master mode or something. It actually changes story/cutscene stuff to keep up the illusion of playing as Zelda.
wii-u emulation has reached a good level of maturity
run cemu 1.4(?) whatever the one before the switch to 2.0 is
it runs great on my (mess of a) machine
I remember it got moderately booed at E3 when they announced it would have a 3G cell/wifi version locked to AT&T.
I've never liked the blatantly planned obsolescence of console and handheld game systems, especially when it comes to online play.
Something's bleak about the fact that one day a perfectly functional game will stop being playable by design because a new toy came out. :joker-shopping:
