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To be fair, most people use their 3DS/DS/Vita/PSP/whatever more like a tablet than like a phone. They're meant for curling up on the couch on a lazy afternoon (
by ANTSANTS 13y ago
To be fair, most people use their 3DS/DS/Vita/PSP/whatever more like a tablet than like a phone. They're meant for curling up on the couch on a lazy afternoon (or, uh, as something to keep you occupied on the toilet...), not for whipping out in public while you're waiting in a queue. The low battery life of the newer handhelds seems relevant: iirc the 3DS's is around 3 hours, and the Vita's is comparable.
- Goladus 13y agoI see people using portable game systems on the subway. But then whipping it out in public for 5 minutes at a time is not particularly conducive to the kind of deep games that we're talking about.
- ANTSANTS 13y agoYou're right, I should have mentioned long commutes in public transportation as the other main usage scenario of portables (especially in their country of origin), but that's not as relevant a consideration to (what I'm assuming is the average HN user) Americans living in areas with poor or nonexistent public transportation.