The vita was never affordable for the masses like the Nintendo handhelds. It wasn't like you could expect all your friends to play vita games with you in the same way that you could trade Pokémon on a Gameboy, play mario kart on a DS or just use the switch in local coop.
I remember that I played Pokémon and Dragon Ball Z videogames on the Nintendo GameBoy Color, Nintendo GameBoy Advance, and Nintendo GameBoy Advance SP handheld systems during my childhood years in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Well the n-gage situation is just a joke probably. Everyone knows it was barely functional. But switch being so high up... I'm not saying it's a bad device, but it definitely doesn't deserve to be so high up.
@@jacekarino Switch is the best handheld ever, imo. Just to be clear, I'm 33 and I've owned every notable handheld since the Gameboy (every device from S to C tiers on this list), so this isn't really an age thing.
@@GreggyAckI'm 48, and I'll agree Switch has a great case for best library ever at an affordable price. It also features the least reliable controls of any handheld I've owned.
I had n gage qd and it was a pretty good phone/handheld combo, minus the camera which a lot of phones of the time had. There were a lot of cool ps1 era ports like tomb raider, tony hawk pro skater, pandemonium, worms world party etc. I think i like elder scrolls travel game and mgs the most as far as the original titles go. Also it had local multiplayer and my cousin also owned an n gage and you could emulate nes and play together which was nice at the time.
I adore the DS. It's my favorite system (handheld or home console) ever. It was the system that shaped my taste in games and I'd honestly be happy if Nintendo never released another handheld after it.
I really agree with that statement. I've just buy an NDS Lite 3 months ago, and it became my main handheld to play games. The screen is crisp, pixel perfect, games looks amazing on it, especialy 2D. I am now enjoy Pokemon FireRed for the first time on official Nintendo handheld, and Chrono Trigger for the first time in general. I've beaten only The World Ends With You for now, but i had really fun time, such unique experience with this game. Console totally worth owning even today 💪
With a Steam Deck with EmuDeck and a jailbroken PSP you have pretty much all retro consoles in a portable form factor. Been playing through Pokémon and Fire Emblem on my PSP
PSP is also natively a great PS1 emulation machine. Just copy your (legally owned) PS1 disc files, convert to PSP playable format, move to a jailbroken PSP, and there you go! Some games are a bit buggy, like Lunar 2 having a disappearing text box, but it works remarkably well overall.
Tough to say which handheld is the GOAT. I've always been partial to 3ds. It gave you plenty of great games and access to the ds library. It's a shame Nintendo didn't give people an official way to play more gba games on it officially.
same here. plus jailbreaking it these days is too easy and a no brainer at this point. love the community and how passionate everyone is. Vita does, indeed, mean "life".
I mean, as someone who owned all of the Nintendo handhelds since gbc, n gage (yep), and PSP, which was my favourite at the time, I was really disappointed by the Vita and in the end switch became what I actually wanted from the next PSP in a way. I really do not understand what makes you guys like the console, honestly, I own most of the Sony exclusive games on it and most are pretty mediocre (and PlayStation fans seem to not care about those franchises either, considering they are not around anymore). Even after hacking the console, I still find emulating ps1 on a phone with a controller as a much better option, considering that Vita has a touchpad instead of second triggers. And imagine the pain of downloading useless DLC for some games which took a lot of memory on that expensive proprietary cards and not having the ability to transfer save files which even smartphones of the time could do. At least there is now a save manager for hacked vitas.
@@bujimuji7562 The memory cards sucked! They absolutely did. I ended up buying a 16gb one which is plenty of storage space. I transfered saves through Ps Plus (which should have just been possible through usb...). I own 38 physcial games for the Vita.
I was so sure the Switch would be the console on S rank, I really liked this list, I haven't been able to get a Switch yet but I just love the GBA and it's incredibly varied library.
There's rumors that Nintendo will announce the successor to the switch later this year, so you might want to wait until that comes out either to play switch games through backwards compatibility or through buying a discounted switch.
I did hesitate between the GBA and the DS in the poll, glad to see them both so high. Also, I can't believe you put DBZ's Legendary Super Warriors's 'Briefing' theme as the background music, it's one of my favorites ever!!
Ive recently been a huge fan of the vita. While on the surface its game library might seem mid, there are some true hidden gems on the platform that really pushed handheld gaming for a time. While ultimately the switch deserves the credit for becoming the true home console to go, the Vita got remarkably close. It was a shame about the memory card price tho.
@@CitrusArchitect Killzone mercenary, Wipeout 2048, Terraway are the best 3 games ive played on the vita so far. Terraway especially is a certified banger
Okay I missed this poll but holy crap, the PS Vita got done dirty on this list (kinda like how it got done dirty IRL. Big RIP). In spite of its library hiccups, you COULD buy a lot of PSP games for it digitally and that's certainly a plus. That said, overall, I really just have this to say: I feel bad for the Game Gear being in D tier but I get why. The VIta definitely deserved to be in B tier at least because of how powerful it was, the combination of its own library and part of the PSP library, and remote play. The 3DS I feel deserved A tier for it's capabilities, huge library of its own games and virtual console, and backwards compatibility with the DS. That said, while I certainly like the DS, 3DS, and Vita more, I 100% get why the GBA is "the King" of the handhelds and I'm not offended by that whatsoever.
I knew it was going to happen, but I'm still disappointed that the 3ds didn't rank any higher. I'd have put it in A tier at least since it is my personal favorite. I will say I did not see the GBA taking S tier. I thought the DS would take that place
I had the original GBA, but I won the SP from Yoplait Go-Gurt. That was such an improvement with the backlight screen. I went back and played through all my Game Boy games once I could really see them. The 3DS, though, is the system I have the most games for. It's the one I would put in my pocket when I went to the mall, movie theater, or Zelda Symphony to get StreetPasses. I would put the 3DS one step above the GBA.
4:39 Well as contemporary as you could get with one thumbpad in a time when the industry standard had been two for a while. I mean it was released in the same console generation as PS2, GameCube and Xbox with its infamous "Duke" controller (ironically the extra two buttons on the Duke was likely the basis for the extra pair of shoulder buttons in the generation that followed as the thing also had introduced trigger buttons to the console controller scene. That means the extra two buttons were the equivalent of LB and RB).
The GBA SP and the DS Lite were my two favorite handhelds. Huge libraries with some of my favorite games. The Sonic Advance trilogy, Maro Kart, Sonic Rush, Namco Museum, DragonBall Z Supersonic Warriors, Pokemon Sapphire, and so many more. The undisputed Goats of handheld gaming.
Interesting! But I guess everybody has a different definition of what it means to be the best handheld. A lot of people believe that the handheld with the most sentimental nostalgic feelings for them is "the best" and not what is objectively the best package of price, value and libary from a todays perspective.
I look at it in terms of exclusive games made for the platform and the design of the handheld itself plus historical significance. Sorry but a modern emulation handheld is downright boring and bottom tier by my standards. That offends tons of people lol. I'd legit rather own a Tiger GameCom than yet another Ayaneo or some crap. It's like saying your gaming PC is better than a Sega Genesis just because it can play any game. Not everybody WANTS a singular device that plays everything.
I think the PSP and Steam Deck should be higher here, the Deck had almost any game you can wish for on the go, and the PSP can do soo much more after installing Homebrews etc..
I agree with games mattering a lot but I think other features should matter too like how was it at the time etc. OG steam deck model really didn't have a good display and pretty bad battery life it's much more expensive than it's other handheld cousins and the cultural impact and popularity is a lot smaller. The steam deck OLED improved on it a lot though. Like if it was just power and the amount of games was the only factor and if the rog ally or Legion was on the list would that be S tier? I don't think so because windows on a handheld is just really cumbersome and bad user experience, they're heavy and big which is a big downside to people with smaller hands, the battery life is even worse due to the higher power and it's just very uncreative just copying what the steam deck does and they are really expensive even compared to the deck. There's a ton of value in a device that just works for a casual audience but for the more hardcore technical crowd of course they will prefer pc handhelds.
@@mmagnusson87 No I just explaining why someone might prefer one of the smaller and older handhelds because of much better portability (pocketable), battery life and being much cheaper. If you can't see that then you must be rather closed minded.
I completely agree with you on the vita. The vita honestly would’ve been one of my favorite handhelds if it just had more games on it. I wonder why that’s the case though. Maybe many developers didn’t see much value in making and porting games for the vita.
I always look at my Switch and go "Oh yeah, I rarely play that thing. How do people like it so much? I havent even liked many of Nintendos first party offerings lately. I even HATED ToTK.... (the first time I really disliked any Zelda game)" Then I take a look at my over 100 Switch games, comprising of some series I never even dreamed of coming to the west, ports of absolute childhood classics, some games where the Original would have been out of my price range for a very long time and a hand full of new bangers and I go "Ah... yeah. Thats why." The Switch is like... a Gamings "BEST OF" Album. Sure, it doesnt have that much new stuff, but it has the most bangers from the past.
I got a portable emulator device and I find myself playing a LOT of GBA games, even though I have no nostalgia for them. The GBA as a system just has a great library of games!
When I was a kid my parents wouldn’t get me an N64 which I wanted soooo bad at the time, but instead they got me a black gameboy Advanced that came with a copy of Super Mario World. This was my first game console ever and it bought me many fond memories of late night gaming sessions with the wired connector with my friends and family, as well as trading games for a few days back and forth if the folks were short on. cash and couldn’t buy us new games 😂. Those were great times.
This list was just "Which handheld did you own." I have no idea how the Steam Deck can be so low when it literally plays every game that all of these consoles can play and more.
Yes but you have to take the era and price into consideration. Back in those days life was simpler with less distractions and people were more connected, it can all add up to the experience
By your logic this list would go strictly chronologically. Also no "pokemon", no "god of war", no "pikmin". Yea IT Has a power to Play them all but its doesn't mean IT can
@nazurix689 it has the power and actually can run games from every system on the list, even the switch. I'm sure I recall seeing the steam deck actually gets better performance in one of the newer pokemon games
I would argue that portable systems have basically always offered console quality experiences, they’ve just always been a generation behind. I get that people only started to look at it that way with the PSP because the games got longer, but most 8-16 bit games (aside from RPGs of course) were only about an hour long, their length though was disguised behind the difficulty of those games.
I'm willing to bet Switch will tie with PS2 in the next video but Wii, Gamecube and 360 will likely make it into A or B tier and Xbone, PS5 and XBSXS will be in C or lower but not below Sega Saturn or Wii U which will likely trend near the bottom (even though the Sega Saturn doesn't really deserve it) above the Ataris. Master System will likely not rank high as the English speaking part of the world isn't as familiar with it as the Game Gear. Also N64 will likely be somewhere in the middle below GameCube, NES and SNES and Sega Genesis will be somewhere around the SNES as both are around equally popular. I think both Switch and PS2 deserve the #1 spot for different reasons but my vote was for PS2.
The late 90s and the 2000s decade just so happens to be the sweet spot for handheld consoles to thrive. GBC, GBA, and DS will always be the elite consoles for me. But still, it's weird seeing GBA above DS.
Couldn't agree more. Neo Geo Pocket and Wonderswan are great systems. Never used but I see the greatness still. Not knowing or nostalgia bubble rules. They don't do research and we end up knowing so much from a simple search. Videos or Wikipedia handheld generations so easy to do. So many systems tech features, cough PSP media yeah Zodiac was 2003, PSP 2004..... Flandeew doing research clearly.
Pretty accurate, I'd just put the Steam Deck higher both for how good it is for its price and the fact it opened the market to new possibilities, Valve staple at this point.
My favorite handheld system is the classic Nintendo GameBoy Advance SP, because you can play videogames at night when the SP has the screen turn light to glow the entire room. You can play Nintendo GameBoy, Color, and Advance handheld games on the SP handheld system. Second favorite is the Nintendo 3DS handheld system, third favorite is the PSP handheld system, and the fourth favorite is the Nintendo Switch handheld system.
I voted for the Lynx despite only now owning one just a few years ago. Why? Because the question is what's my favorite handheld. The Lynx on its own is my favorite handheld if you ignore game libraries. It's such a badass machine with a crazy development history and is unbelievable to think came out in 1989.
A lot of bitter comments here from people whose favourite didnt win! Great video, cant wait for the console version. Hope youll accept the Commodore 64 as a plucky underdog entrant!
Great video allot of great handhelds out there, I can’t really be upset with gba being the best, but for me I would give it to the DS I just love the ds it’s one of my favorites of all time. Especially I remember it came out when I turned 10 and it was under my Christmas tree I got the Mario kart red DS bundle and it was one of my greatest gifts of all time, next to one year when I got the Pokémon N64 pikachu console and in that same year I got a GameCube for my birthday 😊 such wonderful memories of better times. Now my most used handheld is the switch it’s definitely becoming a new favorite next to my ps vita
The ds lite will always be my favourite. It’s not the best(though its game library is one of the best) but it just feels great to use, more so than the 3ds/dsi/switch, despite them being the overall technically better consoles
Grouping the ds with the 3ds is like grouping the n64 to the gamecube. The gba is truly the best handheld ever. Size, and form factor was perfect. Sp was alright. Swapping an AGS 101 screen into an og gameboy advance is the perfect recipie
DS could play two generations of games from your library. PS Vita had great functionality with the Main Consoles. Steam Deck is a pathway to many games libraries Nintendo consider to be "piracy."
Having owned all the consoles in C tier and above, id say its a pretty good list, I probably would have traded the gba and ds lite, but thats just because I prefered the game library. The steam deck though, is everything i've ever wanted out of a console, especially with its accessability to all of the games for the rest of these consoles.
I still prefer the Vita and 3DS. I still haven't had any good luck with the Switch's Joy-Cons, so I just use it as a home console with the pro controller (which is one of my favorite controllers at least.).
Now for the best home console. Hands down, the playstation 3. Not only did it have a vast library of games. Not only its backwards compatibility with the previous gen of Sony consoles. Not multimedia. But its entire usability in many fields, the PS3 can be used as a fairly good home computer when it was released. Now yes the launch price was indeed absurd, but for its time it was understandable. It introduced blu-ray. gyro controls, it was truly way ahead of its time, and the most powerful console to be ever introduced by then.
I don't consider the PSP's memory stick (which was also used for Sony's digital cameras) to have been a detriment. All flash based storage was still pretty pricey back in the early 2000s, and it wasn't only Sony making memory sticks (Sandisk, Kingston, etc), unlike with the Vita's memory cards, which are totally proprietary (only the Vita used those cards, and only Sony manufactured them)
I kinda disagree about the prices. For example, a 2GB SanDisk SD card cost about $40. The SanDisk 2GB memory stick cost $55. This is roughly 40% higher costs. And with smaller sizes the price difference was even bigger, because on smaller file sizes you had much more sales with SD cards. The price of those cards isn't a reason for Sony not establishing a lasting place in the handheld segment. Both the price difference and the impact of the higher prices in my opinion often gets blown out of proportion. Still the memory stick in comparison was kinda expensive.
@@Antiheld1989 I was not expecting a response to this post, especially not one that was well worded and pleasant like yours. I brought up the memory stick thing because not very long after the PSP launched, memory stick prices were going down substantially, whereas the Vita memory cards (sticks?) never really dropped in price that I can remember, and that was one of the reasons I was hesitant in getting a Vita, and figured I was far from alone in that regard. But then again, I didn't get my Vita until after the new model was released, and I got it from a friend who had an 8GB card in it, so maybe they did drop in price? Regardless, I love 'em both, and felt the Vita should have been as well received as the PSP was.
I think i have a distorted view of the Gameboy as the only game from that era that I really played was Pokemon Blue, but I was gifted that along with a Gameboy Colour so I never really saw the 8-bit green screen.
It is for sure. Sad he ditched the others and only covers the Ngage though. Such disrespect. They all stand out in their own way then being lumped together.
you should do evolution of games, i always liked those videos like evolution of tmnt and stuff like that you know what I mean, but it would be so much more enjoyable the way you make your vids
Excellent video! Still have fond memories with my GBA and my brothers GBA SP (I am the older child, got my GBA first). Looking forward for the home console video!
Tbh the more and more I read about the Gameboys competitors, the more my nostaliga dies for it a lil. It's crazy how many of it's competitors in the early 90's were just as good as the Gameboy advance a whole generation later, only being failed by prices and battery power. Apart from the pokemon, zelda and wario games, I can't really stand most Gameboy era games (inc GBC). Even the mario games aren't that great on the system, especially those for the original handheld.
The GBA has the most glaring hardware flaws because that screen was awfully dim, but it has the most beloved generations of pokemon games so I can understand it being placed highly.
I think that switch should be S because it was the greatest handheld system with great amazing next gen games with amazing titles and also able to play on TV, not just handheld, but this is my opinion
I agree the over millions ticked me off. Gaming bubbles versus those who do research. I'll take research any day then surface level/nostalgia and popularity bubble logic. The Zodiac and Gizmondo even had media features before the PSP by a year or 2. Even PSP had add-ons (like Gameboy Camera) for camera and GPS, Gizmondo had it built in. How is it not better oh right sales, library as if that's all that matters. Tech matters but not to most people apparently. Gaming bubbles sigh. I like PSP but won't deny other aspects many systems had still. I don't put my PSP nostalgia on the line. Glad to see someone else that knows their handhelds. Not oh Nintendo, Sega, Sony and push the other great to the side. Sales don't equal quality and popularity/nostalgia don't either. I doubt we see the Xavix port (Wii Sports like controllers before the Wii came out, ex Nintendo employees) or Nuon in a console video. At least some people use the internet for videos diving into them and their history or search engines to research more then popularity bubbles and nostalgia most are too blinded by of the surface.
Honestly I’d say the Original Xbox. Not only was it the first console to have a built in hard disk drive, which paved the way for larger more in-depth games, but you also had innovations like Xbox Live. To me it was truly a special piece of my childhood and I still remember to this day when my Grandpa gave me his Xbox with Mech Warrior and Halo 2. Furthermore the Xbox spawned a generation of new stories and games, like Halo, that are still loved to this day. To not give it the recognition it deserves for spearheading the Modern Console Wars would be a shame.
Couldn't agree more a better list, better poll, better results. Price sure Gameboy or 2DS are cheaper but that changes compared to what they offer. Not nostalgia and who owned what that always happens and makes these lists pretty boring.
I agree that this list is more a list of who grew up owning it. Additionally the Gameboy is probably the most important handheld in history. But if you look at those statistics the Swich already outperforms the Gameboy in many aspects. The Switch already sold more than the GB ever did. If you take into account that the 118 million sold systems only because of the extremly long lifespan in consideration of the that the higher sales numbers of the Switch and the DS seem like greater achievements. Even the GBA that had an inhouse competitor with the DS just after 3 years seems more impressive when you consider GB and GBC had 12 years without a successor to reach those 118 millions sales. When you compare software sales, both DS and Switch outperform GB. When you consider inflation DS and GB price where not that different and in one league with Switch Lite. Therefore, many of they key numbers aren't that special or great with Gameboy. And I don't know if it is a good thing that Nintendo did not come up with a real successor sooner. What makes the Gameboy special is the impact it had in general with isn't reflected just in numbers.
5:07 Sony's second failure in the format wars after minidisc. Then they finally got a W with Blu-Ray and shortly after decided digital-only is better. Even when Sony won the format wars, they decided to lose again anyway.
@@uniquelegend391battery life was just not there. Display was very poor. Colour reproduction and response was terrible. A joke of a starting model at 64GB. 60Hz is so outdated considering how many indies and older games can now run at 90fps on the OLED. Speakers were fine but got a nice upgrade. Wi-Fi was only average and has been improved. Just to name a few.
Yeah I never got the v1 Deck so it makes much more sense to jump in now. For your case, if you are happy and don't have many OLED displays to compare, it will do you just fine keeping it. A gen 2 is like 2 years away anyway.@@uniquelegend391
I think the rankings are all tinged by nostalgia, and it's probably impossible to avoid it. The regular gameboy advance was nearly impossible to see the screen, and the GBA SP is difficult to hold with adult sized-hands and the buttons don't have a good feel to them. My favorite is the PSP, but liked you showed, you need to pop the battery pack out when you're not using it for more than a few days. The Switch should be the one on top, but that system doesn't run at full speed in handheld mode, and some games like Doom are almost unplayable as a handheld. Maybe the Switch is a console with a hand-held mode, and not a true portable. If you want a portable where nearly every game is a hit, the Neo Geo Pocket Color was a lot of fun, and I never played a bad game for it.
Bare in mind this is a skewed data set. Most of the voters are going to be flandrew’s subscribers, most of flandrew’s content is about games from the 2000s, therefore most of the voters are probably people with a particular interest in 2000s era video games. Doesn’t mean this isn’t a legit video, but these results may not generalize to the population.
Greatest home console for me is the PS2. It has most of my favorite console games on it and was backward compatible so I could still play all my favorite PS1 games. PS3 is a close 2nd.
gba well desereverd S tier (the sonic advance games are also gems in the libary hopefully they come to the switch 1 day) also i think the 3ds is also 1 of my favorites by basicly having the libary of the ds and the 3ds
I would just love if they would bring out a new 2024 Game Boy.. like not a switch something, not a ds something.. but a game boy.. that feels robust, has modern features.. but which games would just feel like 2024 game boy games.
I feel that maybe the gameboy should have been a tier higher. The console is praised by almost anybody who had one or heard of it. I really don’t know what the people were thinking tho. Those votes were not it
The original xbox is my vote for the best console. I am very biased considering that I grew up with the console, but I mean it. It was the most powerful of the gen 6 consoles, had a good amount of PC games on the system and ran them pretty well, and had a really great library of games. A lot of the games that were on both the PS2 and Xbox often looked better on Xbox too. Not to mention, the Xbox has the absolute best library of Star Wars games.
Awesome video! I enjoyed my GBColor and Oracle of seasons. As a little kid I almost brute forced my way through the entire game, digging up every chunck of land possible and talking to every npc possible after every event. I absolutely loved my GBA and trying to get through metroid fusion before whatever movie was on ended. The DS Lite was the first time I experienced pokemon as intended, with friends and not alone like when I played Gen1. I also finally got to play Chrono Trigger on the DS after growing up playing chrono cross with my nephew and brother in law all the time.
I have discovered I have a new pet peeve: people who say "precent" instead of "percent". I don't think you managed to say it right once. Oh and the GBA is the correct choice, I'm glad your viewers got it right.
It's a generation thing, if you grew up in the 80s then nostalgia has you thinking the DMG Gameboy is the best, if it's the most powerful then obviously it's the deck. Personally for me it's the game gear
Yes, but you also have to keep in mind the impact that each console made on its own terms. Sure, every game that's good will still be good decades later, but playing say, the original Call of Duty is a hell of a lot less exciting today than it was back when it released. The game didn't change, we did, and all the retro games in the world will pale in comparison to the new ones simply because we're past them. Now obviously there's classics that we'll always want to go back to, but those will never be the highlight of a console's lifespan.
I loved the gba and it almost got my vote but I had to vote for vita because I love my hacked vita and can play all my gba games on it. Also love the game gear games lol. So many good memories or if thou I was plugged into wall most the time lol. I play my vita all the time though laying in bed with RUclips while playing all my old favorite games on vita. I play some vita games every now and then but mostly play old video games from psp back to Super Nintendo.
Vita and PSP are criminally underrated in this list.
The vita was never affordable for the masses like the Nintendo handhelds. It wasn't like you could expect all your friends to play vita games with you in the same way that you could trade Pokémon on a Gameboy, play mario kart on a DS or just use the switch in local coop.
I'm confused by this poll. How did we get over 160% total votes?
GBA SP was my childhood, yeah. That and the DS felt like a golden age of games
GBA sp lack headphone jack so it kinda only downside and the sound of the games arent great
I remember that I played Pokémon and Dragon Ball Z videogames on the Nintendo GameBoy Color, Nintendo GameBoy Advance, and Nintendo GameBoy Advance SP handheld systems during my childhood years in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
I imagine this list is heavily swayed by the channels age demo. Like the Ngage passing the Game Gear is particularly surprising.
Well the n-gage situation is just a joke probably. Everyone knows it was barely functional. But switch being so high up... I'm not saying it's a bad device, but it definitely doesn't deserve to be so high up.
@@jacekarino Switch is the best handheld ever, imo. Just to be clear, I'm 33 and I've owned every notable handheld since the Gameboy (every device from S to C tiers on this list), so this isn't really an age thing.
@@GreggyAckI'm 48, and I'll agree Switch has a great case for best library ever at an affordable price.
It also features the least reliable controls of any handheld I've owned.
@@juststatedtheobvious9633 Yea, the inevitable stick drift on Joycon is an absolute turd to be fair.
I had n gage qd and it was a pretty good phone/handheld combo, minus the camera which a lot of phones of the time had. There were a lot of cool ps1 era ports like tomb raider, tony hawk pro skater, pandemonium, worms world party etc. I think i like elder scrolls travel game and mgs the most as far as the original titles go. Also it had local multiplayer and my cousin also owned an n gage and you could emulate nes and play together which was nice at the time.
I adore the DS. It's my favorite system (handheld or home console) ever. It was the system that shaped my taste in games and I'd honestly be happy if Nintendo never released another handheld after it.
I really agree with that statement. I've just buy an NDS Lite 3 months ago, and it became my main handheld to play games. The screen is crisp, pixel perfect, games looks amazing on it, especialy 2D. I am now enjoy Pokemon FireRed for the first time on official Nintendo handheld, and Chrono Trigger for the first time in general. I've beaten only The World Ends With You for now, but i had really fun time, such unique experience with this game. Console totally worth owning even today 💪
Agreed the ds and 3ds were great imo, had fond memories playing various games on both
With a Steam Deck with EmuDeck and a jailbroken PSP you have pretty much all retro consoles in a portable form factor. Been playing through Pokémon and Fire Emblem on my PSP
PSP is also natively a great PS1 emulation machine. Just copy your (legally owned) PS1 disc files, convert to PSP playable format, move to a jailbroken PSP, and there you go! Some games are a bit buggy, like Lunar 2 having a disappearing text box, but it works remarkably well overall.
If you’re gonna go for a PSP, you may as well go for the Vita. It can do all the PSP can and more.
Tough to say which handheld is the GOAT.
I've always been partial to 3ds.
It gave you plenty of great games and access to the ds library.
It's a shame Nintendo didn't give people an official way to play more gba games on it officially.
Obviously this is much more a list of what people own.
The handheld I enjoyed the most and spent the most time on was the Ps Vita.
same here. plus jailbreaking it these days is too easy and a no brainer at this point. love the community and how passionate everyone is. Vita does, indeed, mean "life".
I have a Vita and love it, but I wouldn't put it in the top 5.
What are the best games for it? I bought one but haven't found many games that stand out on it
I mean, as someone who owned all of the Nintendo handhelds since gbc, n gage (yep), and PSP, which was my favourite at the time, I was really disappointed by the Vita and in the end switch became what I actually wanted from the next PSP in a way. I really do not understand what makes you guys like the console, honestly, I own most of the Sony exclusive games on it and most are pretty mediocre (and PlayStation fans seem to not care about those franchises either, considering they are not around anymore). Even after hacking the console, I still find emulating ps1 on a phone with a controller as a much better option, considering that Vita has a touchpad instead of second triggers. And imagine the pain of downloading useless DLC for some games which took a lot of memory on that expensive proprietary cards and not having the ability to transfer save files which even smartphones of the time could do. At least there is now a save manager for hacked vitas.
@@bujimuji7562 The memory cards sucked! They absolutely did. I ended up buying a 16gb one which is plenty of storage space. I transfered saves through Ps Plus (which should have just been possible through usb...). I own 38 physcial games for the Vita.
I was so sure the Switch would be the console on S rank, I really liked this list, I haven't been able to get a Switch yet but I just love the GBA and it's incredibly varied library.
There's rumors that Nintendo will announce the successor to the switch later this year, so you might want to wait until that comes out either to play switch games through backwards compatibility or through buying a discounted switch.
I did hesitate between the GBA and the DS in the poll, glad to see them both so high. Also, I can't believe you put DBZ's Legendary Super Warriors's 'Briefing' theme as the background music, it's one of my favorites ever!!
Ive recently been a huge fan of the vita. While on the surface its game library might seem mid, there are some true hidden gems on the platform that really pushed handheld gaming for a time. While ultimately the switch deserves the credit for becoming the true home console to go, the Vita got remarkably close. It was a shame about the memory card price tho.
I bought a Vita recently but haven't found many games that appeal to me. Any recommendations?
@@CitrusArchitect Killzone mercenary, Wipeout 2048, Terraway are the best 3 games ive played on the vita so far. Terraway especially is a certified banger
@@CitrusArchitect Gravity Rush, AC Liberations, All Star Battle Royale, ...
Okay I missed this poll but holy crap, the PS Vita got done dirty on this list (kinda like how it got done dirty IRL. Big RIP). In spite of its library hiccups, you COULD buy a lot of PSP games for it digitally and that's certainly a plus. That said, overall, I really just have this to say:
I feel bad for the Game Gear being in D tier but I get why. The VIta definitely deserved to be in B tier at least because of how powerful it was, the combination of its own library and part of the PSP library, and remote play. The 3DS I feel deserved A tier for it's capabilities, huge library of its own games and virtual console, and backwards compatibility with the DS. That said, while I certainly like the DS, 3DS, and Vita more, I 100% get why the GBA is "the King" of the handhelds and I'm not offended by that whatsoever.
I knew it was going to happen, but I'm still disappointed that the 3ds didn't rank any higher. I'd have put it in A tier at least since it is my personal favorite. I will say I did not see the GBA taking S tier. I thought the DS would take that place
I had the original GBA, but I won the SP from Yoplait Go-Gurt. That was such an improvement with the backlight screen. I went back and played through all my Game Boy games once I could really see them. The 3DS, though, is the system I have the most games for. It's the one I would put in my pocket when I went to the mall, movie theater, or Zelda Symphony to get StreetPasses. I would put the 3DS one step above the GBA.
4:39 Well as contemporary as you could get with one thumbpad in a time when the industry standard had been two for a while. I mean it was released in the same console generation as PS2, GameCube and Xbox with its infamous "Duke" controller (ironically the extra two buttons on the Duke was likely the basis for the extra pair of shoulder buttons in the generation that followed as the thing also had introduced trigger buttons to the console controller scene. That means the extra two buttons were the equivalent of LB and RB).
1:21 That's not the only part of its design people make fun of, now that we know _why_ it's shaped exactly the way it is...
See comment section for: People taking this way too personally
I love how some of my favorites are in D-tier lol
The GBA SP and the DS Lite were my two favorite handhelds.
Huge libraries with some of my favorite games.
The Sonic Advance trilogy, Maro Kart, Sonic Rush, Namco Museum, DragonBall Z Supersonic Warriors, Pokemon Sapphire, and so many more.
The undisputed Goats of handheld gaming.
Interesting! But I guess everybody has a different definition of what it means to be the best handheld. A lot of people believe that the handheld with the most sentimental nostalgic feelings for them is "the best" and not what is objectively the best package of price, value and libary from a todays perspective.
Yep emotion over tech, price, and more.
I look at it in terms of exclusive games made for the platform and the design of the handheld itself plus historical significance. Sorry but a modern emulation handheld is downright boring and bottom tier by my standards. That offends tons of people lol. I'd legit rather own a Tiger GameCom than yet another Ayaneo or some crap. It's like saying your gaming PC is better than a Sega Genesis just because it can play any game. Not everybody WANTS a singular device that plays everything.
I think the PSP and Steam Deck should be higher here, the Deck had almost any game you can wish for on the go, and the PSP can do soo much more after installing Homebrews etc..
I agree with games mattering a lot but I think other features should matter too like how was it at the time etc. OG steam deck model really didn't have a good display and pretty bad battery life it's much more expensive than it's other handheld cousins and the cultural impact and popularity is a lot smaller. The steam deck OLED improved on it a lot though. Like if it was just power and the amount of games was the only factor and if the rog ally or Legion was on the list would that be S tier? I don't think so because windows on a handheld is just really cumbersome and bad user experience, they're heavy and big which is a big downside to people with smaller hands, the battery life is even worse due to the higher power and it's just very uncreative just copying what the steam deck does and they are really expensive even compared to the deck. There's a ton of value in a device that just works for a casual audience but for the more hardcore technical crowd of course they will prefer pc handhelds.
@@Bargate are you high?
@@mmagnusson87 No I just explaining why someone might prefer one of the smaller and older handhelds because of much better portability (pocketable), battery life and being much cheaper. If you can't see that then you must be rather closed minded.
Putting in my vote for the Steam Deck since I missed the poll
I completely agree with you on the vita. The vita honestly would’ve been one of my favorite handhelds if it just had more games on it. I wonder why that’s the case though. Maybe many developers didn’t see much value in making and porting games for the vita.
A tear rolls down my cheek that the great, great, great grandfather of the handheld is not among them. Game & Watch Series.
Steam Deck honestly sweeps as both a pc and a retro gaming emporium
I love the PSP even today. It’s such a neat little console
The D tier consoles are unironically all amazing and some of my favorites.
I always look at my Switch and go "Oh yeah, I rarely play that thing. How do people like it so much? I havent even liked many of Nintendos first party offerings lately. I even HATED ToTK.... (the first time I really disliked any Zelda game)" Then I take a look at my over 100 Switch games, comprising of some series I never even dreamed of coming to the west, ports of absolute childhood classics, some games where the Original would have been out of my price range for a very long time and a hand full of new bangers and I go "Ah... yeah. Thats why."
The Switch is like... a Gamings "BEST OF" Album. Sure, it doesnt have that much new stuff, but it has the most bangers from the past.
I want a steam deck so bad 🗿
9:06 made me feel like I was 9 again. The beige carpet, the clear purple gba, and Pokémon gold.😊
I got a portable emulator device and I find myself playing a LOT of GBA games, even though I have no nostalgia for them. The GBA as a system just has a great library of games!
When I was a kid my parents wouldn’t get me an N64 which I wanted soooo bad at the time, but instead they got me a black gameboy Advanced that came with a copy of Super Mario World. This was my first game console ever and it bought me many fond memories of late night gaming sessions with the wired connector with my friends and family, as well as trading games for a few days back and forth if the folks were short on. cash and couldn’t buy us new games 😂. Those were great times.
This list was just "Which handheld did you own." I have no idea how the Steam Deck can be so low when it literally plays every game that all of these consoles can play and more.
Yes but you have to take the era and price into consideration. Back in those days life was simpler with less distractions and people were more connected, it can all add up to the experience
By your logic this list would go strictly chronologically. Also no "pokemon", no "god of war", no "pikmin". Yea IT Has a power to Play them all but its doesn't mean IT can
Welll... Yeah, how the F would you rank or vote for something you didn't own? 🙄
Well it does emulate despite that one reply BUT it does take a hit because most people have never messed with Linux
@nazurix689 it has the power and actually can run games from every system on the list, even the switch. I'm sure I recall seeing the steam deck actually gets better performance in one of the newer pokemon games
A Smartphone is the new king of hand held gaming. you can emulated just about everything on it and its always gonna be with you.
Nostalgia aside, the steam deck OLED has been the most amazing handheld experience I've had by far. That being said, I still love my DS lite.
I would argue that portable systems have basically always offered console quality experiences, they’ve just always been a generation behind. I get that people only started to look at it that way with the PSP because the games got longer, but most 8-16 bit games (aside from RPGs of course) were only about an hour long, their length though was disguised behind the difficulty of those games.
I'm willing to bet Switch will tie with PS2 in the next video but Wii, Gamecube and 360 will likely make it into A or B tier and Xbone, PS5 and XBSXS will be in C or lower but not below Sega Saturn or Wii U which will likely trend near the bottom (even though the Sega Saturn doesn't really deserve it) above the Ataris. Master System will likely not rank high as the English speaking part of the world isn't as familiar with it as the Game Gear. Also N64 will likely be somewhere in the middle below GameCube, NES and SNES and Sega Genesis will be somewhere around the SNES as both are around equally popular. I think both Switch and PS2 deserve the #1 spot for different reasons but my vote was for PS2.
The late 90s and the 2000s decade just so happens to be the sweet spot for handheld consoles to thrive.
GBC, GBA, and DS will always be the elite consoles for me.
But still, it's weird seeing GBA above DS.
The Neo Geo hate is unreal
"people fear what they don't understand and hate what they can't conquer"
Couldn't agree more. Neo Geo Pocket and Wonderswan are great systems. Never used but I see the greatness still. Not knowing or nostalgia bubble rules. They don't do research and we end up knowing so much from a simple search. Videos or Wikipedia handheld generations so easy to do.
So many systems tech features, cough PSP media yeah Zodiac was 2003, PSP 2004..... Flandeew doing research clearly.
@@suntannedduck2388 same for the Lynx. Such an outstanding piece of hardware.
I'd love to play Elder Scrolls Shadowkey on a neo geo but it's so expensive
Pretty accurate, I'd just put the Steam Deck higher both for how good it is for its price and the fact it opened the market to new possibilities, Valve staple at this point.
My favorite handheld system is the classic Nintendo GameBoy Advance SP, because you can play videogames at night when the SP has the screen turn light to glow the entire room. You can play Nintendo GameBoy, Color, and Advance handheld games on the SP handheld system. Second favorite is the Nintendo 3DS handheld system, third favorite is the PSP handheld system, and the fourth favorite is the Nintendo Switch handheld system.
I voted for the Lynx despite only now owning one just a few years ago. Why? Because the question is what's my favorite handheld. The Lynx on its own is my favorite handheld if you ignore game libraries. It's such a badass machine with a crazy development history and is unbelievable to think came out in 1989.
I wish when the sp was made they had release an updated gba classic to have a rechangable battery and backlots screen like mods today
A lot of bitter comments here from people whose favourite didnt win! Great video, cant wait for the console version. Hope youll accept the Commodore 64 as a plucky underdog entrant!
Great video allot of great handhelds out there, I can’t really be upset with gba being the best, but for me I would give it to the DS I just love the ds it’s one of my favorites of all time. Especially I remember it came out when I turned 10 and it was under my Christmas tree I got the Mario kart red DS bundle and it was one of my greatest gifts of all time, next to one year when I got the Pokémon N64 pikachu console and in that same year I got a GameCube for my birthday 😊 such wonderful memories of better times. Now my most used handheld is the switch it’s definitely becoming a new favorite next to my ps vita
Nice video. I still have a Sega Game Gear, Nintendo 3DS, PSP and Vita.
PSP, so EASY to mod. Every PS1 game and PSP in your library? You can't beat it!
The ds lite will always be my favourite. It’s not the best(though its game library is one of the best) but it just feels great to use, more so than the 3ds/dsi/switch, despite them being the overall technically better consoles
Grouping the ds with the 3ds is like grouping the n64 to the gamecube. The gba is truly the best handheld ever. Size, and form factor was perfect. Sp was alright. Swapping an AGS 101 screen into an og gameboy advance is the perfect recipie
I was having a heart attack the moment i saw Vita in the C rank.
DS could play two generations of games from your library.
PS Vita had great functionality with the Main Consoles.
Steam Deck is a pathway to many games libraries Nintendo consider to be "piracy."
In my opinion Steamdeck should be number one, because it can emulate all the others :D
Having owned all the consoles in C tier and above, id say its a pretty good list, I probably would have traded the gba and ds lite, but thats just because I prefered the game library.
The steam deck though, is everything i've ever wanted out of a console, especially with its accessability to all of the games for the rest of these consoles.
PSP gang your correct 💯
That's amazing the GBA sits in S tier. That's my favorite system of all time.
Holy shit! I had a friend who walked around playing Dani California out of his PSP too! 😮😮😮😮
I still prefer the Vita and 3DS. I still haven't had any good luck with the Switch's Joy-Cons, so I just use it as a home console with the pro controller (which is one of my favorite controllers at least.).
Now for the best home console. Hands down, the playstation 3. Not only did it have a vast library of games. Not only its backwards compatibility with the previous gen of Sony consoles. Not multimedia. But its entire usability in many fields, the PS3 can be used as a fairly good home computer when it was released. Now yes the launch price was indeed absurd, but for its time it was understandable. It introduced blu-ray. gyro controls, it was truly way ahead of its time, and the most powerful console to be ever introduced by then.
i walked into my econ class and the first thing i see on the board was that psp's were not allowed
I don't consider the PSP's memory stick (which was also used for Sony's digital cameras) to have been a detriment. All flash based storage was still pretty pricey back in the early 2000s, and it wasn't only Sony making memory sticks (Sandisk, Kingston, etc), unlike with the Vita's memory cards, which are totally proprietary (only the Vita used those cards, and only Sony manufactured them)
I kinda disagree about the prices. For example, a 2GB SanDisk SD card cost about $40. The SanDisk 2GB memory stick cost $55. This is roughly 40% higher costs. And with smaller sizes the price difference was even bigger, because on smaller file sizes you had much more sales with SD cards.
The price of those cards isn't a reason for Sony not establishing a lasting place in the handheld segment. Both the price difference and the impact of the higher prices in my opinion often gets blown out of proportion. Still the memory stick in comparison was kinda expensive.
@@Antiheld1989 I was not expecting a response to this post, especially not one that was well worded and pleasant like yours.
I brought up the memory stick thing because not very long after the PSP launched, memory stick prices were going down substantially, whereas the Vita memory cards (sticks?) never really dropped in price that I can remember, and that was one of the reasons I was hesitant in getting a Vita, and figured I was far from alone in that regard. But then again, I didn't get my Vita until after the new model was released, and I got it from a friend who had an 8GB card in it, so maybe they did drop in price? Regardless, I love 'em both, and felt the Vita should have been as well received as the PSP was.
I think i have a distorted view of the Gameboy as the only game from that era that I really played was Pokemon Blue, but I was gifted that along with a Gameboy Colour so I never really saw the 8-bit green screen.
This video should be renamed: “what handheld are people most nostalgic for?”
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug 😒🥱
It is for sure. Sad he ditched the others and only covers the Ngage though. Such disrespect. They all stand out in their own way then being lumped together.
Exactly, let alone the PSP's and 3DS' placement@@suntannedduck2388
you should do evolution of games, i always liked those videos like evolution of tmnt and stuff like that you know what I mean, but it would be so much more enjoyable the way you make your vids
Excellent video!
Still have fond memories with my GBA and my brothers GBA SP (I am the older child, got my GBA first).
Looking forward for the home console video!
Tbh the more and more I read about the Gameboys competitors, the more my nostaliga dies for it a lil.
It's crazy how many of it's competitors in the early 90's were just as good as the Gameboy advance a whole generation later, only being failed by prices and battery power. Apart from the pokemon, zelda and wario games, I can't really stand most Gameboy era games (inc GBC). Even the mario games aren't that great on the system, especially those for the original handheld.
The GBA has the most glaring hardware flaws because that screen was awfully dim, but it has the most beloved generations of pokemon games so I can understand it being placed highly.
Think im the first! Seems rare for content this good.
Now that I have it, I gotta say the greatest Handheld is the RG35XX+. I can't see the "normal" Handhelds in the same light ever again.
I still have the PSP, DS, and the PS Vita.
I think that switch should be S because it was the greatest handheld system with great amazing next gen games with amazing titles and also able to play on TV, not just handheld, but this is my opinion
No Gizmondo??? Video downvoted!!!
What the heck is a Gizmondo?!
@@juliannocartagena2007 utilize a search engine pls full for explanation. Bing "Gizmondo".
I agree the over millions ticked me off. Gaming bubbles versus those who do research. I'll take research any day then surface level/nostalgia and popularity bubble logic.
The Zodiac and Gizmondo even had media features before the PSP by a year or 2.
Even PSP had add-ons (like Gameboy Camera) for camera and GPS, Gizmondo had it built in.
How is it not better oh right sales, library as if that's all that matters. Tech matters but not to most people apparently. Gaming bubbles sigh.
I like PSP but won't deny other aspects many systems had still. I don't put my PSP nostalgia on the line.
Glad to see someone else that knows their handhelds.
Not oh Nintendo, Sega, Sony and push the other great to the side.
Sales don't equal quality and popularity/nostalgia don't either.
I doubt we see the Xavix port (Wii Sports like controllers before the Wii came out, ex Nintendo employees) or Nuon in a console video.
At least some people use the internet for videos diving into them and their history or search engines to research more then popularity bubbles and nostalgia most are too blinded by of the surface.
@@suntannedduck2388 Wow. The Gizmondo actually sounds quite ambitious!
Honestly I’d say the Original Xbox.
Not only was it the first console to have a built in hard disk drive, which paved the way for larger more in-depth games, but you also had innovations like Xbox Live. To me it was truly a special piece of my childhood and I still remember to this day when my Grandpa gave me his Xbox with Mech Warrior and Halo 2. Furthermore the Xbox spawned a generation of new stories and games, like Halo, that are still loved to this day. To not give it the recognition it deserves for spearheading the Modern Console Wars would be a shame.
Its not a handheld tho😂😂
You can handhelding it while playing and gain some muscle on the process. Must count for something.
Sega Nomad being so low on the list and 3DS outranking the DMG AND GBC? This list was made by 20 year olds, huh?
I think you need to take into account price, sales, lifespan and year of release…not just a list who grew up owning it. Gameboy should win hands down
Couldn't agree more a better list, better poll, better results. Price sure Gameboy or 2DS are cheaper but that changes compared to what they offer. Not nostalgia and who owned what that always happens and makes these lists pretty boring.
I agree that this list is more a list of who grew up owning it. Additionally the Gameboy is probably the most important handheld in history.
But if you look at those statistics the Swich already outperforms the Gameboy in many aspects. The Switch already sold more than the GB ever did. If you take into account that the 118 million sold systems only because of the extremly long lifespan in consideration of the that the higher sales numbers of the Switch and the DS seem like greater achievements. Even the GBA that had an inhouse competitor with the DS just after 3 years seems more impressive when you consider GB and GBC had 12 years without a successor to reach those 118 millions sales. When you compare software sales, both DS and Switch outperform GB. When you consider inflation DS and GB price where not that different and in one league with Switch Lite. Therefore, many of they key numbers aren't that special or great with Gameboy. And I don't know if it is a good thing that Nintendo did not come up with a real successor sooner.
What makes the Gameboy special is the impact it had in general with isn't reflected just in numbers.
5:07 Sony's second failure in the format wars after minidisc. Then they finally got a W with Blu-Ray and shortly after decided digital-only is better. Even when Sony won the format wars, they decided to lose again anyway.
Steam Deck OLED is easily S tier, it literally fixed 90% of the issues I had with the vanilla model.
Hi I’m curious on what the 90% issues you had are has i have the vanilla rn
@@uniquelegend391battery life was just not there. Display was very poor. Colour reproduction and response was terrible. A joke of a starting model at 64GB. 60Hz is so outdated considering how many indies and older games can now run at 90fps on the OLED. Speakers were fine but got a nice upgrade. Wi-Fi was only average and has been improved. Just to name a few.
@@denisruskin348 I’m thinking of upgrading one day but no point wasting money rn when I’ve got a working vanilla version
Yeah I never got the v1 Deck so it makes much more sense to jump in now. For your case, if you are happy and don't have many OLED displays to compare, it will do you just fine keeping it. A gen 2 is like 2 years away anyway.@@uniquelegend391
@@denisruskin348you're acting like OLED could last more than 1,5h of playing some AAA 🤣
I completely agree with the #1 spot, but the PSP and GBC being so low feels disrespectful for some reason. 😂
As a hardcore Nintendo fan I must say
Steam Deck should be higher
Ok I voted steamdeck cus it can emulate everything, but I did adore my GBA as it was my first console, and my DS I still play GBA games on today
But your original DS cannot play Gameboy, or Gameboy Color Games on it.
I think the rankings are all tinged by nostalgia, and it's probably impossible to avoid it. The regular gameboy advance was nearly impossible to see the screen, and the GBA SP is difficult to hold with adult sized-hands and the buttons don't have a good feel to them. My favorite is the PSP, but liked you showed, you need to pop the battery pack out when you're not using it for more than a few days. The Switch should be the one on top, but that system doesn't run at full speed in handheld mode, and some games like Doom are almost unplayable as a handheld. Maybe the Switch is a console with a hand-held mode, and not a true portable. If you want a portable where nearly every game is a hit, the Neo Geo Pocket Color was a lot of fun, and I never played a bad game for it.
Bare in mind this is a skewed data set. Most of the voters are going to be flandrew’s subscribers, most of flandrew’s content is about games from the 2000s, therefore most of the voters are probably people with a particular interest in 2000s era video games. Doesn’t mean this isn’t a legit video, but these results may not generalize to the population.
I concur with GBA and DS being the top 2 but I would swap their positions.
Greatest home console for me is the PS2. It has most of my favorite console games on it and was backward compatible so I could still play all my favorite PS1 games. PS3 is a close 2nd.
gba well desereverd S tier (the sonic advance games are also gems in the libary hopefully they come to the switch 1 day)
also i think the 3ds is also 1 of my favorites by basicly having the libary of the ds and the 3ds
I would just love if they would bring out a new 2024 Game Boy.. like not a switch something, not a ds something.. but a game boy.. that feels robust, has modern features.. but which games would just feel like 2024 game boy games.
I feel that maybe the gameboy should have been a tier higher. The console is praised by almost anybody who had one or heard of it. I really don’t know what the people were thinking tho. Those votes were not it
I love the Game Gear and I don't care who knows it.
The 3DS will always be number 1 for me. I have thousands upon hours in mine
The original xbox is my vote for the best console. I am very biased considering that I grew up with the console, but I mean it. It was the most powerful of the gen 6 consoles, had a good amount of PC games on the system and ran them pretty well, and had a really great library of games. A lot of the games that were on both the PS2 and Xbox often looked better on Xbox too. Not to mention, the Xbox has the absolute best library of Star Wars games.
The Gameboy not winning this says more about the age of your audience.
Awesome video! I enjoyed my GBColor and Oracle of seasons. As a little kid I almost brute forced my way through the entire game, digging up every chunck of land possible and talking to every npc possible after every event.
I absolutely loved my GBA and trying to get through metroid fusion before whatever movie was on ended.
The DS Lite was the first time I experienced pokemon as intended, with friends and not alone like when I played Gen1. I also finally got to play Chrono Trigger on the DS after growing up playing chrono cross with my nephew and brother in law all the time.
For my list I would basically just keep this list, but move the GBA to B Tier and the Steam Deck to S Tier
2:27 What's that GBC on the bottom with a character and pink buttons? Is it a Card Captors one?
I have discovered I have a new pet peeve: people who say "precent" instead of "percent". I don't think you managed to say it right once. Oh and the GBA is the correct choice, I'm glad your viewers got it right.
Switch for me. In fact, it's become my fave console ever
My favorite handhelds through the years:
GameBoy Pocket
GameBoy Advance
Neo Geo Pocket Color
PSP
Nintendo DS
PS Vita
Nintendo 3DS
Switch
Steam Deck
It's a generation thing, if you grew up in the 80s then nostalgia has you thinking the DMG Gameboy is the best, if it's the most powerful then obviously it's the deck. Personally for me it's the game gear
the vita can play literally everything the psp can, and it's also capable of emulating like 85% of the other console on this list, lol
Yes, but you also have to keep in mind the impact that each console made on its own terms.
Sure, every game that's good will still be good decades later, but playing say, the original Call of Duty is a hell of a lot less exciting today than it was back when it released.
The game didn't change, we did, and all the retro games in the world will pale in comparison to the new ones simply because we're past them.
Now obviously there's classics that we'll always want to go back to, but those will never be the highlight of a console's lifespan.
Literal PC gamer mentality SMH
These consoles are here for their own merits not for piracy.
I loved the gba and it almost got my vote but I had to vote for vita because I love my hacked vita and can play all my gba games on it. Also love the game gear games lol. So many good memories or if thou I was plugged into wall most the time lol. I play my vita all the time though laying in bed with RUclips while playing all my old favorite games on vita. I play some vita games every now and then but mostly play old video games from psp back to Super Nintendo.
3ds my first and longest running console, switch coming in second, and far as i am aware, my 3ds is now more valuable than switch.