post pics of your handhelds to me I will rate them from 0/10
(spoiler warning, every rating will be a 10. it'll be like we rate dogs, only better)
@Nine time to show off my babies (I apparently don't have a good photo of my PSP Go on my phone, and I've lent it to my dad rn, but I assure you it's beautiful)
@noiob omg the ngage!! Like, how powerful was the gaming systems on that, that it could run a basically almost entirely intact PS1 game??? I'm kinda in awe!
@Nine the N-Gage is an impressive Handheld (especially considering its competition was the Gameboy Advance, where 3D means pushing the hardware to its limits) and a really good phone thanks to Symbian (it has real multitasking! on a dumbphone!). I think with a different strategy it and a launch model without obvious flaws it could've been very successful.
@Nine Also Tomb Raider plays super well on it! I've only stopped playing because for some reason you can't just release forward to stop moving, it sticks, and you have to push it again or push back to stop running which is super not how Tomb Raider is played.
It has a replay function which I think allows you to post your playthroughs of levels to N-Gage Arena, Nokia's online portal, but I can't try that nowadays for obvious reasons
@noiob jeez I'm imagining now what could have been had Symbian taken off and evolved more instead of Android
@Nine the N-Gage brand kind of lived on in N-Gage 2.0 which was some kind of download-based games platform for the most powerful Nokia phones. Had some impressive games afaik, they even got a Metal Gear
@Nine Nokia lost the license and had to go back to making awful S40 systems, I had two phones running that trainwreck of an OS…
I wish MeeGo had taken off tbh, it had some amazing concepts and is based on pretty solid Linux work, but it was too little too late. It kinda lives on in Sailfish OS but well, they support like one and a half phones