Idk where you live, but bags are not any more common in my experience than in the 90s. The more likely reality is that gamers have different expectations today

Idk where you live, but bags are not any more common in my experience than in the 90s. The more likely reality is that gamers have different expectations today. The kinds of games you’d play on everything prior to the 3DS are things you’d play on mobile phones now. That leaves the middle area of more high fidelity games, with better ergonomics and closer to home consoles. That’s what the Switch , the PSP and Vita and 3DS occupy. They can’t compete anymore in the absolute mobile end of gaming space , so moved into the space in between. That requires larger devices to provide the experience gamers want that they can’t get on the average phone till recently.