That’s only true if you consider all portable consoles in the same category. There’s always been a market for the large portable console, also with the promise

That’s only true if you consider all portable consoles in the same category. There’s always been a market for the large portable console, also with the promise of docking. It’s just that compute was difficult to achieve until recently, and the market for the small end has been eaten by phones, and so they only make the larger end now. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_handheld_game_consoles?wprov=sfti1# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_handheld_game_consoles...