A New Sony Handheld + HUGE Win for Steam Deck Gaming

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[zaidabraham]

The PSP was a success. It sold a ton of units, it had a lot of third-party support, a lot of straight up PS2 ports which was insane at the time. It just wasn't nearly as successful as the DS was.

[sprj]

Man...the PSP carried me through working out of town for years...movies and games, it was my everything when only having hotel TV to entertain me!!!

[brigbain]

Well I could sure use more distractions while yano... waiting for a pizza that someone keeps promising me 👀

[shenai]

The PS Vita was a lovely bit of tech.

All the modern "handhelds" are way too big, bulky and heavy to make much sense as a true on the go portable device. They're more for playing in bed or on the couch or going on a trip.

[estebanbenitezalberdi]

The best thing about the PSP and Vita was the fact developpers had to be creative to compensate for hardware limitations. Lot of those handheld games were tons of fun and had a different flavour because they were exploring original ideas. Would love to see that again!

[jishwagent]

The PSP was how I discovered god of war as a kid, my dad got me a red PSP that had kratos’ face on the back and it came with the first 2 games and the psp only one, I was much to young to be playing them but now God of War is my favorite game franchise ever

[natebaird]

Hey Jake, thanks for doing more than your part to make the internet, and especially the gaming space, a bit lighter, exciting, and positive. Grateful that you take the time to share your content with the world!

[amolanand]

I listen to all this as a podcast while watering the plants. Thanks for those words. 🙌

[lookingbeanz]

Honestly man, having a portable option to play any game from my PlayStation library is enough of a selling point for me.

[TheElder]

The Vita was a blast. I still have mine. I like the portal, but I hate how all these companies use cheap analog joysticks. I wish that the Portal connectivity was better. I constantly drop connection. I would love to have PS release a Steam Deck like handheld.

[johnd]

I've been saying this for a while. The steam deck is the greatest thing to happen to video gaming in a long time. I had so glad I made the choice between that and a PS5 and I haven't gone back. I just hope the rest of gaming takes a look and realizes that this is the angle we should have been going the whole time

[gordong]

I'm a Gen x gamer and I just bought a OneXplayer X1 AMD edition 11"handheld. I'm so pumped to get this handheld and start enjoying it. I have a pretty good gaming rig but I get a feeling I'm going to be using the handhelds a lot more often. Plus the big screen and helps with my 54-year-old eyes.

[JT-ocyt]

Honestly, as of late I have been completely blown away by my portal. After the update a week ago or so adding cloud streaming and improving remote play. I honestly think if they could just expand cloud streaming on the device to cover any games in your library when you already have a winner right there

[albertovaldivia]

I do miss the DS handheld days, but handheld devices today are just so crazy expensive

[coolpidgey]

Popolocrois on the PSP when I was a kid was a life-defining event for sure

[papipanda]

A pc and a beefy playstation handheld would be a heaven scenario

[NPCLiam]

I would LOVE another PlayStation handheld. Before details of the Portal were announced I was hoping that thing was gonna be a PS4 game-targeting local play device, so something that can play PS5 stuff, granted at probably 1080p but that’s dandy sounds super good.

[mannybananny]

Idk why I thought the thumbnail said “ ARE HANDJOBS BACK??” Like dude I was unaware that they ever left

[Dionyzos]

Handhelds are a win win win for everyone. Console and PC gamers can play on the go. Mobile gamers can enjoy actual games (lol). Devs gain access to the young generation. And lastly, it forces devs to optimize their games for slower hardware if they want access to that market. I, for one, welcome this change wholeheartedly.

[Hi]

New psp . Xbox handheld . New deck . Asus, msi, lenovo an all the other chinese brands handhelds . switch 2 . Android phones getting powerful enough to run console games natively or emulate windows games

We are truly entering handhelds era