LogFAQs > #893506162

orbasm posted...

There should be an option for "EVERY stupid version of the DS". It actively ruined handheld gaming, by being more popular than PSP/Vita and making the stylus MANDATORY for a TON of games. If all those crappy versions of the DS didn't exist, the Vita would have gotten the attention it deserved. Thankfully, the PSP was popular enough on it's own to survive with a bunch of rad exclusives, but Nintendo and it's obsessive fans absolutely killed the Vita.

The PSP was garbage no matter what and the only person you should blame for the Vita failing is Sony and would-be Vita fans. If the PSP hadn't existed, the Vita *might* have been able to make a go of it -- since the PSP burned out much of Sony's good will and momentum -- but even then it was overpriced hardware that few people were interested in.

And complaining that your chosen handheld can't survive competition just makes it look even sadder and more pathetic. Sony did a piss-poor job with handhelds which is why they couldn't make much headway.

SteamedHams posted...

I didn't include handhelds because some people just dislike handhelds on principle. Also, backwards compatibility renders some of them basically useless, though I kind of doubt that the original GB or DS would have gotten a lot of votes despite having BC successors.

tbh, I generally prefer handhelds these days. And, amusingly enough, the GB's library probably had far fewer duds than the NES's.
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