Specific architecture that allows for uninterrupted gaming process, easy pick-ups/put-downs and much better battery life. Lack of buttons is one thing, but much bigger problem is how modern smartphones by their design go in the way of remotely immersive, comfortable, effortless gaming. Playing for more than 2 hours? Battery is almost dead. Got a call in the middle of gameplay session? Your OS closed game down to save on RAM and you lost a lot of progress. Compatibility issues or conflicting software? Good luck solving those.
It also costs several times as much, you forgot to mention that
Every Android game I've played saves progress automatically, so I've never lost progress from a game being closed.
Depends on the type of gaming you're used to on Android - naturally, most phone games are designed with limitations and quirks of phones in mind (including autosaving), but putting actual console-quality games on phones can be a disaster in terms of convenience.
You just jogged my memory.
Remember when the SNES and Genesis/Mega drive were the titans slugging it out with each other for dominance and Sega decided to release the Sega CD and 32X? They were basically just hardware peripherals that you attached to the Genesis /Mega drive.
Sega CD didn't have a ton of games but it had more than 32X. What was horrible and miserable was the fact that you as a Genesis /Mega drive owner, had to shell out another 100 plus dollars/pounds/euros, if you wanted to play Sega CD games and then the Sega CD had been on the market only a short time and they released the 32X, so then you had to shell out another 100 plus
Then, if you bought the Sega CD and 32X, you were massively disappointed when Sega dropped support for both! They didn't make but a handful of games for the 32X.
You're right though, there weren't many good games for either, but there were some. This was probably the beginning of the end for Sega as a hardware manufacturer. they had the Saturn and Dreamcast (still got those too), but it was all downhill after the Mega Drive add-on fiasco.
Remember them? I still have them
It also costs several times as much, you forgot to mention that
I used to have them too but I fell upon hard times and had to sell them. Do you have the nomad too? To me that was so cool to have a handheld mega drive way back then.
I had a nomad. It wasn't a high quality view screen but back in the day it was passable. I'm like you, it was just a cool toy to add to my collection. When I still had my collection, my goal was to collect them all. Lol as you said so many toys to collect!It does, but were not really comparing apples (ahem) to apples, even when you take the standard higher price of any Apple product off the top, you've still got to factor in things like the larger screen, the target market and so on and so on. Then there's the time factor, it'd be another couple years before the Switch is in it's mid-life stage, so by then better performing hardware will be cheaper.
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Unfortunately not, it was never sold in the UK and my parents were never keen on buying imported machines. The only import I ever got was the PC Engine.
But I have been considering adding a Nomad to my collection........ Eventually, there's just soooooo many toys to buy
). But slap a controller with a grip on there and it’s not so bad.
As do I, however if we are going not even sci fi but things I can see happening in the nearish future then the things being done with electroactive polymers, glass coating, various types of memory metals (they have more uses than springy glasses) and beyond mean I expect to see a point where we are generating controls on the fly.
If that new technology were to be implemented and is as responsive as a traditional gamepad and if the rough textured raised lump does not occupy too much of the viewing area, I may be interested!
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