u/TheOmunious

This is probably 60% of the consoles I own, here’s why I would recommend each of these here plus some cons to each of them

Steam deck:

Incredible handheld PC with great preformace, gaming always fun on this thing and I can spend hours without it feeling hard to hold or too big

The cons of the deck would be its horrible battery and the slightly broken right trigger which the OLED fixes both of those problems

(Edit, during the ram crisis that we have rn steam deck isn’t worth buying because of the price)

Got my 512g for 400€ pre ram crisis

Ds lite:

One of my favorite consoles period, I only have Pokemon white and Mario kart on my ds pico and I have probably 30 hours in each game, it’s great to take anywhere and pick up and put down quickly

Cons;

It’s an old console that’s about it.

70€ plus shell swap and 8€ for the DSpico

Rg405v:

Great for all emulation and light switch emulation, it’s fun and has nice buttons plus it runs on android

Cons: too small for a bag and too big for pocket carry

Got mine for 120€

r36s:

The budget KING! emulation up to psx for 30 bucks? Hell yeah!

Cons: nothing really lol for 30€ it’s a steal

Got mine for like 25€ and it’s real which is nice

RGcubeXX;

Fun for slightly lower emulation with a good form factor for DS and 3DS games

Cons: form factor leaves bars for any other game and the user interface isn’t great

Got mine for like 40€

Switch OLED: great for totk and botw, the screen is great it’s fun to use and it’s a switch so it’s just good overall

Cons; without getting better joycons it was hard to hold and felt very small for long gaming sessions, but it’s cool to dock asw

They’re like 250-300€ rn

Switch lite:

Great to have a switch for cheaper, it fits in my small bag and was fun to shell swap, best way to get a switch without breaking the bank if you don’t care about docked

Cons; can’t dock, bad screen and slightly worse performance

Like 170€

Powkiddy x18

This is a controversial pick because of its price and bad user interface, but for mobile gaming I love it, it has a snapdragon 8 so it runs great and the speakers are incredible

Cons; sticks don’t depress, back buttons are bad and like I mentioned, the user interface is bad.

I got mine for 15 euro at a flea market but I wouldn’t recommend paying full price bc it’s not worth it.

Let me know what you think

Here’s my top picks to get someone to like Carti, nothing too niche or personal preference just good hooks and genuinely good music

Just shell swapped a dsl and was super excited to grab pokemon black and start playing!

I live on an island (very few used game shops) in Europe so I went to the closest used game shop which was pretty far and asked if they had Pokemon black/white

They said they did and it rang up at 120€ I was shocked so I said I didn’t actually want it and went online to look

All of the main GBA and NDS Pokemon games are mega expensive and I’m super bummed bc I was super excited to play on my DSL, life hasn’t been awesome recently and I decided to treat myself to a DSL only to find out I either have to pay 120€ or not play some of my favorite games on the market

I looked online and there seem to be like a mass game collection in one card it’s called like a “combo cartridge” and I don’t mind pirating it, but idk if it’s any good, any advice/recommendations on what to do?

Constructive criticism would be welcome!