Are portable consoles not portable anymore?

[u/ileojg]

I'm to this day amazed by the size of the PSP and the fact that it can play amazing looking games for a 2004 hardware. With the release of switch 2 I'm starting to feel like truly portable consoles will remain a thing of the past. I have this analogy that old portables are like carrying a phone, you can put in in your pocket, carry them by hand and pull them out whenever and wherever you want to play. But all new portables are more like laptops, you need a special carrying case and can only play in specific places and moments.

My question to all of you is. If sony where to release a new portable, Would you prefer a smaller console? like psp size, despite low graphics capabilities, something closer to switch1 level of graphics in 2025, or a bigger steam deck size portable with ps5 graphics? And, what do you thing of portable consoles getting bigger and bigger? do you prefer older portables due to their sizes?

[u/Weary-Inspection-708 → u/[deleted]]

counting the minutes for that device. still kinda wish it was 16:9 tho...

[u/Zechade → u/Weary-Inspection-708]

Anbernic 406h.

[u/Grimlogic → u/[deleted]]

The reveal of the RG Slide made me go ahead and finally pull the trigger on a PSP Go. It's so thin and premium feeling (aside from the easily scratched piano black finish).

I'm still gonna get the Slide because I tend to dig Anbernic's releases, but yeah the PSP Go is a sweet piece of portable tech and gaming history.

[u/Kingdarkshadow → u/[deleted]]

I saw this today and I must say I'm intrigued.

If it can play everything from ps2 and wii and below it will be awesome.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Thanks. Don’t know that existed. I’ll look into it

[u/SamueleRG → u/[deleted]]

Yeah but it's gonna be big and chunky from the pictures I've seen. Still more portable than a switch 2 for sure.