Have you ever held a switch? Its long, flat and the controllers suck. Awful dpad and bad sticks.

Its almost comical, for a small stick the 3ds stick is better than any joycon stick.

And also, internal storage being only 32 GB, and cart games being downloaded in full to the system.

The switch is a mess. At least the games emulate well.

That’s not even going into the online ransom shit.

And the dock sucks too. Would it have killed Nintendo to add like 2 more USB ports and an Ethernet port.

And not related but powera can eat shit

      • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
        4·
        2 months ago

        I think maybe I just want a GBA

        Which is probably currently available if I look around

          • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
            4·
            2 months ago

            That’s true, especially since I don’t have any of the old physical games.

            I might get one of those “retro handhelds” (rg351p, PowKiddy, etc) one day. Those at least seem much more reasonable, and probably sport more open architecture

              • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
                2·
                2 months ago

                Hell yes!! I would love that. I’m definitely looking for something lofi - like even playing SNES games would probably be overkill. Bonus points if it can play contemporary retro games, like for PICO-8

                • sleepybisexual@beehaw.orgOP
                  1·
                  2 months ago

                  OK, so yih looking for something that can do SNES well, that would be low power, unless you wanna have newer systems,

                  So I need answers for these 4 questions

                  What shape you want?

                  What budget?

                  How much power do you want!

                  What os do you want?

                  For SNES the cheaper end will work

                  • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
                    2·
                    2 months ago

                    1. Smaller the better, not wide like a Switch or Stream Deck.

                    2. Under 200 CAD, but flexible for the right device

                    3. Limited 3D but no more. Like FX chip level

                    4. Linux? Hopefully I understood the question

                    Thanks for taking this time!

    • Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org
      2·
      2 months ago

      That would be really interesting. Heck I would even just take people making more games with the gba’s restrictions. I’ve always thought it’s super interesting. As developers get used to working with a console or system, we end up rolling into the next generation. So they don’t really get to flex their skill as much as I think they probably could.

      I sometimes wonder what we would see if older consoles had another 7 years of life added to them. I try not to think about it too hard or I get kinda sad about the games we’ll never see lol