the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

@noiob there are yes

but in the context of video games "handheld" is enough as a noun, or "handheld video game system"

maybe our usage is in the minority if wikipedia doesn't make the distinction but please, it really feels like you're just telling us we're wrong for using words differently from you and it's getting pretty uncomfortable
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@noiob okay but in our experience, in our dialect of english, "console" refers to a thing you plug into a tv, and a handheld is not that

you are perfectly free to use the words differently but please don't tell us we're wrong for making the distinction when it's one we and people around us have made our entire lives
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@noiob and handheld hardware has historically had significantly different characteristics than console hardware
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@noiob you could make a handheld game without any of these characteristics, and you could make a console game with all of them, it's not a hard and fast rule
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@noiob they're not fundamentally inherently different, they're just frequently designed differently to meet different needs
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@noiob there are definitely design characteristics that are more common in handheld games than in console games--like until recently, being able to save a game just anywhere was a common thing for handheld games for instance, because they're more often designed with the idea in mind that kids might need to turn them off on short notice when the car trip is over or whatever

You also had things like larger sprites to counteract the smaller screen
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@noiob it's not that they're *always* different, but they tend to be designed differently
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@noiob also, they've been historically considered two separate categories and i don't see any real reason to go against that
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@noiob the types of games on them are designed differently (at least historically), and they follow their own release generations rather than going along with consoles
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@noiob prior to the switch's release it was a fully exclusive thing though, we don't know of any other systems like it (the sega nomad and turbografx express both are handhelds that play the same games as consoles, so the definitions still work) -F

@noiob the switch is weird
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we skipped virtual boy here, that was intentional
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@noiob we generally use the words "handheld" and "console" as exclusive terms, describing two different categories of video game systems
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@noiob it's more a handheld
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@noiob i dunno if i'd count that as a console but yeah you could do that
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idea: video game series that goes backward a console generation with each new release

so if the first game comes out on switch, the second would be on wii u, the third on wii, fourth on gamecube, fifth on n64, sixth on snes, and seventh on nes (which would have to be the last entry)
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@kobi_lacroix "that can't be happening it's illegal"
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how do fast food hamburgers manage to always smell so good and taste so.... fast food
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@relee absolutely has nothing to do with what's in your pants, but other than that those are questions you have to answer for yourself
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@relee we know about those requirements, most of them are still on the books in at least some places and are also widely considered awful, transphobic laws
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