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And the damn thing still broke sales records with 18 million copies sold.

Give me a fucking break.

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[-] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

They innovated greatly off the PSP with uhhh a second joystick! And uhh uhh motion controls, those have never been done before!

[-] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

How by that logic was the PSP not simply an iterative improvement on the Game Boy?

[-] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

Exactly, handheld consoles are hardly a new experience - nor is multiplayer for that matter

[-] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I think what the switch did best was having hardware that more or less works given the diminishing returns we're seeing in the processor space these days. It was the first time that a handheld could competently compete with a home console, and could merge the two into one. The Vita got close, but it wasn't there due to the hardware differential.

[-] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Exactly, so its not much more than they got lucky + theyre big enough to force developers to optimize aggressively for their hardware, hardly anything new there

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