50fafb No.16839598
Can someone explain the sudden interest in "console games on the go". For most of gaming, people acknowledged that handhelds had seperate games and games were made differently for them. You would at times get ports of like SNES games on the GBA or DS, but most of the time, it was entirely original games. Now suddenly every faggot defending the switch says its main selling point is console games on the go. With how compromised those versions are, and the very small selection of contemporary home console games, what makes the attraction to it so much more different than say the console ports that arrived on the 3DS and Vita. Those, at many times were just as compromised, but the switch is about to beat both of their sales combined(afaik together they sold like 60 million, the switch is at 52 million).
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a2d86d No.16839609
>>16839598
>Can someone explain the sudden interest in "console games on the go".
I am not sure if it is sudden, seems like the tech was being made available and maybe some people used it. Don't recall anyone demanding it, but the same could be said for VR.
>For most of gaming, people acknowledged that handhelds had seperate games and games were made differently for them. You would at times get ports of like SNES games on the GBA or DS, but most of the time, it was entirely original games. Now suddenly every faggot defending the switch says its main selling point is console games on the go. With how compromised those versions are, and the very small selection of contemporary home console games, what makes the attraction to it so much more different than say the console ports that arrived on the 3DS and Vita. Those, at many times were just as compromised, but the switch is about to beat both of their sales combined(afaik together they sold like 60 million, the switch is at 52 million).
I think the handhelds can now run the old games at the same level as a console so it makes sense to use one method and save time and money. Personally, I think the switch set into motion to kill both consoles and handhelds for Nintendo as you can now have both under one roof, the same underpowered fan service the soft boys and girls come to expect.
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19d2f8 No.16839619
>>16839598
It wasn't sudden, the whole point of the OG Gameboy was to be a portable NES.
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cee20e No.16839631
I'd say the biggest difference between a console/PC game and a portable one was the time a player was expected to sit in front of the screen. With a console(and especially older PC games) they would expect players to sit at least an hour in front of the screen playing videogames, because he managed his time to have a large time window to actively go an sit on the couch/chair and play the game. With a portable game, developers had to take into account that people would play the game, on a bus ride or while waiting in line, basically time windows that were short and were not in your control(you were in a place and decided to play a game to pass the time, versus choosing to sit on the couch and play the game, the difference is subtle, but it does exist). This meant that portable games would have, more checkpoints, shorter levels, and a game cycle that would accommodate short burst of playtime and long busts of playtime.
Of course there are exceptions to this rule, and you can argue that shorter levels are because of worse hardware than the console version, this are just my observations.
However, because of several factors, that I will not go into detail, console and even some PC games(Fortnite) have been casualised so much and they can even be played in bursts of ten minutes while on the toilet, as such it makes perfect sense to port them onto the new portable game consoles.
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ad8a24 No.16839643
>>16839598
>sudden interest in "console games on the go"
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65e2e3 No.16839644
Stereotypically most people owning a switch are 20-30 year old man children with jobs and no kids. They play it while on the train to work, on the break at work and then they sit on reddit all day when they get home.
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473d3b No.16839666
>Can someone explain the sudden interest in "console games on the go"
Nigger there's nothing to explain. Normalfags have 0 standards and everything they do or buy is 200% based on attention and following the latest faggy trend. If a stupid popular eceleb buys X thing, the normalcattle will instantly follow.
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80e663 No.16839674
Handhelds are really the only place dedicated gaming hardware can go where PC gaming doesn't immediately tear it to shreds. And that's mostly down to desktop operating systems (in particular, windows) generally being noxious rotten garbage for portability and Android is also set up in a way that incentives bad game design.
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e67bce No.16839693
>>16839598
>Over the decades we have seen.
Game Boy
Game Gear
Lynx
Game Boy Color
Game Boy Advanced
Mobile gaming
N-Gage
Neo Geo Pocket
Nintendo DS
PsP
3DS
Vita
Switch.
Gaming laptops
>OP: Can someone explain the sudden interest in "console games on the go
>OP confirmed faggot.
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56cb7a No.16839707
I just have a 3ds because i travel a lot and don't carry a TV/Monitor everywhere i go. Anyone who has a Switch and doesn't really go out is a faggot.
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50fafb No.16839714
I dont think i was clear, what I was trying to get at is, like people saying a reason to get the switch is for these shitty versions of nudoom or witcher, when that was never reasons people got portables.For the ds SMTSJ which was something you weren't getting on consoles, or name like a billion games on the GBA that weren't being done because 2d stopped being in vouge . call me a faggot all you want, i have trouble with words
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5b583e No.16839722
>>16839643
>>16839693
I think i can catch onto what OPs' autistic brainwaves wanted to convey is what is with the sudden urge to port big goy games onto small consoles. Especially the nintendo switch.
Maybe, I don't know.
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9f89d5 No.16839727
>>16839598
>"console games on the go"
>sudden interest
Nigger how underage are you? Ever since the idea of handhelds came into being, you had developers desperately trying recreate console games on the go with wildly varying results. Shit you could argue we've already reached that point with modern smart phones in the last 5 years that can render acceptable looking 3D, motion controls notwithstanding.
Pic related was arguably the biggest, most marketed attempt at doing "consoles" on the go at the time, with wildly varying results.
>You would at times get ports of like SNES games on the GBA or DS, but most of the time, it was entirely original games.
>GBA or DS
Nigger, the GBA and especially the DS were capable of handling SNES games. Of course, the GBA had slight hardware deficiencies that required downgrades in either the visuals, sound or controls (or all 3) in order to work on GBA, but for most 16 bit titles, it was possible to make them play well on GBA. The DS on the other hand was more than capable of running 16-bit games pretty much unaltered.
It sounds like your underage brain meant porting games to the original GB or GBC. In cases like those, it was up to the developer on how they ported a 16 bit game to underpowered 8-bit handhelds running on already-obsolete hardware. If the devs were smart, they knew they would have to basically rebuild the whole game into something catered to the Gameboy's ancient tech to be playable (and often outright making the "port" into its own new game). It was the retarded devs who tried to cram in an entire 16-bit game in the GB and didn't notice or care that those ports performed like stuttering ass.
>>16839714
>I dont think i was clear
>i have trouble with words
I don't you can into English and are severely underage.
>call me a faggot
Ok, niggerfaggot.
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9f89d5 No.16839730
>>16839727
Forgot image, I'm a fag.
>>16839722
>I think i can catch onto what OPs' autistic brainwaves wanted to convey is what is with the sudden urge to port big goy games onto small consoles.
Except there's no "sudden interest", as I explained in my prior post.
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5b583e No.16839734
>>16839730
>Except there's no "sudden interest", as I explained in my prior post.
You were still referring to consoles being made, not big console games being ported to handhelds.
Either the way, the answer is still just companies wanting to jew enough pennies out of every consolefag.
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5b583e No.16839736
>>16839734
Codemonkey keeps eating my fucking files.
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9f89d5 No.16839742
>>16839734
>not big console games being ported to handhelds.
Yeah, I was
>Ever since the idea of handhelds came into being, you had developers desperately trying recreate console games on the go with wildly varying results.
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b87858 No.16839743
Fools! They may think I am texting my gf or checking facebook, but in reality I am playing brigandine grand edition.
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caf798 No.16839750
>>16839650
>Posting the cuckchan manlet meme
You deserve the swedish dong.
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ad8a24 No.16839754
>>16839722
Yeah, who knows why the gameboy picked up decades ago. Probably normalcattle.
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1338ce No.16839773
Something to compete with mobile games since consoles and PC have actual real games. Most normies like the portability aspect. I guess I'm in the minority where I like to play something on a dedicated machine on a big screen. I can wait a few days if I'm busy with other things to continue where I left off in the game. I don't feel the need to play immediately to play on the go and at a lower screen resolution. I'm sure some movie and porn viewers out there watch on their phones but I'm not in that camp where I need to have immediate access to something I own at all times. I like my experience to be the best and most consistent when I do game when I have the time dedicated to it.
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63b22b No.16839779
>>16839598
>Can someone explain the sudden interest in "console games on the go".
Most people chase the "AAA" content as premier game experiences, and publishers certainly want to push that perspective so they can double-up on marketing and save a ton of cash by just kneecapping their visual for mobile performance rather than developing a totally new title.
Honestly, AA gaming was the main reason why portable gaming was so good for years. Development costs were lower, and while publishers still expected a healthy return, they weren't nearly as anal about their oversight with portable titles - allowing more niche and experimental titles to flourish, but still having the accountability of a company that wanted a return on investment. It was the ideal middle-ground between indie shovelware and AAA shovelware for some of the best games of their generation to get made.
But those days are long over. Even if dedicated portable consoles hadn't died out, the shifting emphasis toward "console quality" games would have (or has, with the Switch) just as assuredly poisoned the market and made sure that portable gaming was sacrificed on the altar of a AAA.
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63b22b No.16839789
Invidious embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>16839666
>Nigger there's nothing to explain. Normalfags have 0 standards and everything they do or buy is 200% based on attention and following the latest faggy trend. If a stupid popular eceleb buys X thing, the normalcattle will instantly follow.
Reminds of that social experiment where they took groups of varying size and just had them look at a fixed point in the sky in a busy section of the city. Then sat back and watched as people not only glanced at that spot in the sky, but would stop what they're doing and join the crowd with no outside prompting. Just standing there staring at a blank patch of sky for no reason than because other people are. I think later follow-up experiments showed that the attractiveness of the people in the initial group, the presence of authority or celebrity figures would substantially increase the effect.
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000000 No.16839806
>>16839598
>sudden
Portable games were being pushed since the last century.
>explain interest
(((Marketing))) + braindead masses.
>>16839789
>>16839666
The efficiency of this method is dying by the minute. Currently, we have a growing number of normalfags that became so lazy that they don't even buy the games shilled by e-celebs anymore. They just watch them play the game, and that is it.
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c5cdad No.16839812
>>16839789
Judging from the video, that looking up thing is less conformity and more curiosity. If a group of people are looking at something, then the immediate natural assumption is that something exists that's worth looking at and most people are going to at least glance over to see what it is. When they don't see anything they will generally move on, but the more "authority" the group has the more likely the individual will think they just aren't seeing it and spend extra time trying to find it. The underlying motivator though is not at all related to being with the group and entirely related to trying to see the interesting thing.
It's as polluted an experiment as telling people "anyone who conforms to such and such behavior will get so much money". They aren't doing it to conform, they are doing it because of a perceived reward (money in this case, satisfied curiosity in the other). Not saying people don't conform, just that the first experiment described is deeply flawed.
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48e3cd No.16839968
>>16839812
It's also lacking the fact that looking up to (perceived) authority figures makes perfect sense. They are the apex of your group, emulating their behavior is more likely to increase your fitness. It's how social behavior is passed along for instance and he wouldn't complain if it was "respect your elders" instead, despite being the exact same mechanism.
A better experiment to prove that point would have been the queue in the middle of a street that took you nowhere and yet people still queued anyway despite not knowing what it was for.
But to be honest, I dunno how valid that experiment was, it sounds so artificial. Unless it was a british thing.
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cfaf6f No.16840118
>>16839773
OP should read your post because it is very revealing. Most gamers feel the way you do, anon. But game MAKERS are huge corporations, and they are in it for the money. They don't get paid while you and I are sitting in front of our dedicated machines playing for hours at our leisure on devices that they can't access unless we actively allow it by connecting them to the internet.
The Switch was specifically designed to steer gamers like us toward mobile platforms, and that is why they have paid so many shills to defend and promote it.
Game makers want to get paid (in some form or another) by game time played rather than by number of game discs sold. And they want access to your personal data, because that has huge market value. So "games on the go" is the way they are trying to transition gamers into mobile platforms, which is how they can accomplish those business goals.
Think about it…why else would anyone voluntarily go from playing a visually stunning game on a 60" screen, having full control over every aspect of it, stopping and starting whenever you want, without sharing any data with anyone, to playing on a 3 inch screen in 5 minute blocks with little control, shitty interface, and involuntarily sharing all your personal data attached to that device (usually a phone, so your contacts, etc. as well as whatever you say while you are playing the game, whatever the camera sees, etc….)
So yeah, OP, I can explain the sudden interest in games on the go.
I can explain it in one word.
PROFIT.
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ad8a24 No.16840157
>>16839806
>braindead masses.
Yes, wanting things to be small and portable is being braindead. Frankly, if you don't have a computer this big you're a pleb.
>>16840118
>handheld consoles are designed to trick people into play mobile games
Ah yes, the original gameboy was made to get us all to play gacha games on our cellphones, despite them not being out yet. Nintendo was just ahead of the game thanks to a time travel machine they invent in the future. Thanks for the insight.
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473d3b No.16853768
>>16840157
>oh boy I sure can't wait to play [game] on this sissy ~6 inches screen! So progressive!
Reminder that the only retards who like handhelds are normalfags who don't play real video games. There isn't a single psp/switch game that wouldn't be vastly superior on a PC or even home console. (See MH, MGS:PW, etc.)
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