Resentment towards handheld gaming devices

[Leo_A]

I don't understand why anyone would've played one of these things as a kid in a car. You have a whole world of interesting things going by outside your window, why would you have ever kept your head stuck to the screens of a handheld instead of the show going on outside the car windows?

Let me explain this properly. I don't have a problem with the existence of handheld gaming devices. If people want to crink their necks looking at small screens to play games, more power to them.

When I'm playing a handheld, I'm not holding it three feet away from my face. The screens are plenty big enough and probably compare well to sitting 5 or 6 feet away from something like a 20" tv.

Because they're portable. That's like the whole thing, isn't it?

A good game is a good game. Enjoying those games is the entire point of them. I don't care if it's being played on my tv or the screen of a handheld. I don't even buy handhelds for their portable nature, I buy them to enjoy the great games that are released on them. They rarely if ever leave the house and 99% of the time, they're played within sight of a television and game consoles.

I agree with the OP, handhelds are a waste. I hate the small dark and blurry screens and pathetic audio. I like huge tv crystal clear picture with cranking sound and bass for my video games.

Handheld screens were never to my standards for many years, which is ashame where the Game Gear, Lynx, and NGPC are concerned (I'll have to hack my PSP1000 someday so I can better enjoy those systems). Nintendo's screens were so poor that I completely avoided their handhelds for years and stuck with my Super Game Boy and later, the Game Boy Player to enjoy their handheld software.

It wasn't until around the time the Nintendo DS was released that they were good enough quality for my satisfaction and I bought one. And quickly afterwards with the PSP, the backlit revision of the SP, the GBA Micro, and the DS Lite, they became more than just satisfactory.

Beyond a bit of motion blur, I'd be hard pressed with brightness fully on my backlit SP to find any deficient areas with the screen. That's when I finally had a screen that really seemed like a small television on a handheld.

It isn't 1995 now, your complaints about handheld screens are long out of date.

I am surprised that Sony hasn't added some sort of PSP emulation mode to the PS3. I'm sure the console is powerful enough and the PSP control scheme is basically a cutdown Playstation controller layout.

They have a PSP emulator on the PS3. But it's not very good and is only compatible with PSP Minis (With significant issues sometimes, and a couple which are completely incompatible with the emulator). It's no where close enough to run a top of the line PSP game.

Because they made a cord that already lets you connect your PSP 2000 and higher to the TV anyway? I also think the reason they don't just let the PS3 run PSP games is because they want to make sure they sell the handheld systems. If all PSP games could be run on PS3 and cost less than PS3 titles, nobody would even buy the handheld to play them. They would just get a PS3 and call it a day.

They make the vast majority of their money on software sales, not hardware sales. And with how easy piracy is on the PSP, I'm sure Sony would love to sell lots of PSP software for use on the more secure PS3.