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   LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 05:09:28 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

   I love, when modern consoles manage to implement..... over 20 year old features of casual pc gaming.

   Or literally any phone... So, you can use it to call someone? No... You have to pay subscription first :omegalul:

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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 05:11:06 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     Also, they showed a 10fps streams in their demo.

     The 10 FPS is their BEST CASE. They literally thought, that it was in an advertisement ready state.

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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 05:22:59 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     They made it bigger:
     Does aanyone have the Pippa clip about pocket gaming being dead because of this shit?

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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 05:27:36 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     Did they seriously imply, that some Switch games will NOT be compatible?

     :gnomed:

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     xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 05:30:34 JST xianc78

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     @LukeAlmighty The new joy-cons lack the IR sensor that was present in the OG Switch's right joy-con.

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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 05:31:05 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     • xianc78

     @xianc78
     Thanks
     I didn't even know about that feature.

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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 05:32:24 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     I take everything back.
     This is revolutionary. What a briliant design decision. This makes switch 2 scientifically better then my phone.

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     Sir Luke :verified: (sirluke@noauthority.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 05:59:48 JST Sir Luke :verified:

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     @LukeAlmighty
     Whoah
     Love to see an unsecured analog front-hole

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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 07:17:50 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     Ok, since noone responded on time, I finally found it.

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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 07:19:36 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     Yes, I unironically want a gameboy advanced sized handheld with Steam OS.

     I know, that it's pushing the limits of technology, but seriously, it's not pushing THAT MUCH...

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     matrix07012 :thotpatrol: (matrix@gameliberty.club)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 07:31:24 JST matrix07012 :thotpatrol:

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     @LukeAlmighty gaming phone, it can emulate like 2010 x86 games quite well + basically every console

     What you are asking for though is probably impossible currently if you want it usable and with more than 5 minutes of battery life

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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 08:13:03 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     @matrix
     But my phone is smaller volume-wise then Gameboy advanced SP. Nah, I think that part would actually be fine. (Especially, since I do want it to be relatively weak)

     I know, that the main issue would be the expectation of modern 2 stick gamepad though.

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     beard :meru_dab: (beardalaxy@gameliberty.club)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 14:16:21 JST beard :meru_dab:

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     • matrix07012 :thotpatrol:

     @LukeAlmighty @matrix psvita was able to do it easily

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     beard :meru_dab: (beardalaxy@gameliberty.club)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 14:19:44 JST beard :meru_dab:

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     @LukeAlmighty yeah it's hard to make everything completely compatible on new architecture. Most games will run just fine, but some might depend on some weird intricacy of the original hardware that they might not have even known about so it messes with some little feature. This is how games have been under BC forever, even when the hardware or parts of the old hardware were implemented into the new one.

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     matrix07012 :thotpatrol: (matrix@gameliberty.club)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 17:49:47 JST matrix07012 :thotpatrol:

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     @LukeAlmighty what about GPD WIN 4 (2025)?

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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 17:51:29 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     @matrix
     Why cannot they hide the sticks in any way :pepeDread:

     Well, I guess that is one. Thank you

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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 17:52:51 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     @matrix
     I see. The GPD Mini is what I meant
     It looks perfect.

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     Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫:unverified:💀 (alyx@gameliberty.club)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 18:21:29 JST Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫:unverified:💀

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     @LukeAlmighty
     >They made it bigger
     I've heard people argue before, and I didn't quite believe it, but I'm starting to. Gaming is not for children anymore. They're not focusing on making games or consoles for children. The entire market is focusing solely on adults.
     Kids can cope with a smaller screen because they're holding it closer to their face anyway, since they're, you know, small kids. But adults need bigger screens, bigger surfaces to grasp, etc.

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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 18:25:16 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     • Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫:unverified:💀

     @alyx
     Yeah, I kinda agree.
     On one hand, kiddies have to play on phone, since bringing a laptop with you everywhere is seriously annoying. (Trust me, I fought authorities for quite a long time for it :D)

     But, GBA SP was literally perfection, because I could just have it on me without any problem. And as we just debated lower on the thread, there really is (almost) no alternative these days. So, it's not like they have a choice.

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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 18:27:25 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     • Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫:unverified:💀

     @alyx
     Also, adults have so much more money, so I don't blame the execs for focusing on that market. Hell, only last year, mobile devs finally found out, that horny gamer girls exist :omegalul:

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     Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫:unverified:💀 (alyx@gameliberty.club)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 18:42:04 JST Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫:unverified:💀

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     • Mr.NutterButter

     @Mr_NutterButter @LukeAlmighty
     The reason they can't market towards kids is not because the gaming market has become big, but because the growth potential for advertising to kids is too small. There are no kids. Society is broken and no one is having kids. Even suggesting to a woman to have children is now in the best case scenario taboo, in the worst case scenario is considered misogyny worthy of a prison sentence. The only "children" women want to take care of are illegal immigrants from some god forsaken hell whole, who are also adults.

     So the only market that exists and keeps having a reliable potential for growth, not just in gaming, but in entertainment as a whole, is adults. And this might also be what has caused media to be stuck in this remake era. They keep playing on adult's nostalgia, instead of making something that children of today might like.

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     Mr.NutterButter (mr_nutterbutter@gameliberty.club)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 18:42:05 JST Mr.NutterButter

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     • Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫:unverified:💀

     @alyx @LukeAlmighty I didn't really think about this but you are kind of right. The gaming market has become so big that it can't be solely marketed towards kids it's basically all demographics at this point especially for consoles.

     Now they can have a focus towards them but they wouldn't make nearly as much money.

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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 18:43:40 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     • Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫:unverified:💀

     @alyx @Mr_NutterButter
     Never forget, that kids have launch money, while millenials are bored at meeting, wondering how to spend their money.

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     matrix07012 :thotpatrol: (matrix@gameliberty.club)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 18:44:39 JST matrix07012 :thotpatrol:

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     @LukeAlmighty
     GPD is the company that started this x86 handheld trend.
     I showed the Win 4 because it's the most pocketable, but yeah, the clamshell is better for durability (unless your younger cousin breaks the hinge lol, rip my nds).
     But the Mini follows the same trend as every other device. It's called Mini but is actually bigger than it's predecessors. Win 1 and 2 were smaller.
     I think the problem with making a small handheld is that it's going to be objectively worse at everything. Battery life, thermals, performerce, button feel etc.

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     Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫:unverified:💀 (alyx@gameliberty.club)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 18:56:28 JST Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫:unverified:💀

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     • Mr.NutterButter

     @LukeAlmighty @Mr_NutterButter
     A lot of parents would spoil their kids to hell and back with games and consoles, because they've been gamers themselves at some point in their lives. But when there's simply not enough children to begin with, and political leaders are salivating at the idea of importing more human beings, like cattle, than babies being made... It's simply a better investment for companies to focus on adults.

     Case example: you're Valve and want to do research on a new gamepad or joystick.
     Is it a better idea to focus your research on how children hold a gamepad, when your birth rate is predicted to keep dropping, and nobody even wants to fix it (and there's enough conspiracy theories that elites work to make it drop more)?
     Or should you do your research on adults, since you know politicians insist that we will import more and more adult human cattle, at least until the end of the century?
     In the first case, your research is less and less relevant as time goes on, but in the second case, the research remains useful and pays dividends for a long time.