Dolphin if you’re into GameCube games. I’ve played through all of Paper Mario and smugglers run on my phone. Now I’m spending a majority of my time in the original Animal Crossing.
Man, I'm replying to you just to entice you to come back and re-read this thread. Just for your own good, in case you were the first one to post for some reason.
As do handheld systems like GB/GBA/DS/PSP. IMO they emulate even better on phones since those games were already designed for small, handheld screens.
But most modern phones can also handily emulate up to some newer consoles, like N64/PS1-era with ease, though I've found that touch controls becomes a lot harder the more modern the console goes.
I came in here to specifically recommend Fallout Shelter, and actually its TES counterpart: Castles.
I only played a little bit (cause I knew it would suck me in) but it’s pretty much exactly Shelter but with Elder Scrolls stuff. You can have different people join your town and fulfill different jobs like tailoring, blacksmith, crafting and such. You can decorate individual rooms with themes, and I think even furniture pieces. You can create lineages and rivalries between characters. I think the tutorial usually has you make a decision that will lead to something like that (like the first king has an affair with a khajiit woman even though he has a wife and child, who’s next in line for the throne) but you can make someone else king if you want.
I really like Space Flight Simulator. It’s a simplified 2d kerbal basically. Also a sucker for Antiyoy, Balatro, Auralux, and of course an emulator (delta for iOS) so I can play pokemon games.
Cat Bird is a very simple indie platformer that’s for free on the play store that ai kinda love alot. If you don’t mind doing some set up, emulation makes you phone a pretty solid portable console. On the ports side of things, Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night are pretty good games
I am a FFXIV raider. Gear has been earned. But there is now a lack of culture. The game has lost it’s way. It might not be the game though. It might be all MMOs.
I never get the mind blowness some people get about a hypothetical future Xbox branded handheld that could runs all these stores that can play PlayStation games. It’s a PC. You can play PlayStation games on Windows devices for years now. It’s not a gotcha big brain strategic masterpiece on Microsofts part. Pay Valve to play PlayStation games. Current Xbox gamers in the future pay Valve to play 3rd party games rather than Microsoft
This feels weirdly too late. I can’t imagine that many people in 2027 who passed on a Switch 1/2, SteamDeck, supposed other upcoming handhelds, or the ROG Ally and are looking for a gaming handheld with money to burn.
Xbox has to really bring something hot to the table, and its certainly not whatever they’ve been doing with their hardware/games/IPs for the past 5 years.
Allegedly, it’s an improved Windows experience so you get the compatibility without having to use a desktop operating system on a handheld game machine. So, you get Game Pass and kernel level anti cheat games with a UX similar to the Steam Deck (ish). And besides, “everything is an Xbox”. They don’t care how many of these things sell as long as you’re on Game Pass or buying their games.
So it’ll be the ROG Ally but ‘better’ because its less Windows than normal. Hmm.
The last part concerns me. Why am I buying into a platform that Microsoft couldn’t care less if it sells at all because they make their money from subscriptions?
People don’t want hardware that just gets abandoned when its not profitable enough, which Microsoft absolutely has a history of doing.
Every time you buy a PC, you’re buying a platform that Microsoft couldn’t care less if it sells at all, and that’s all this will be. It will be supported by Microsoft as any other Windows PC, for better or worse.
Well a Windows license is just that: Here is a code for the OS, have fun. They don’t care because most support will be from hardware vendors.
Microsoft hardware is a different beast. You need to have parts for replacement, its got to be compatible (and stay compatible) with whatever accessories are coming out, and its got to be better than its competitors on new game launches. That last part takes coordination and support with dev teams.
Don’t care isn’t a great option, unless Microsoft wants another Windows Phone or Zune or one of the many other failed hardware launches they’ve had.
That’s like saying people won’t be interested in new laptops because they already own one. If new handhelds are more performant and power efficient, there will be demand for it.
Well the rumored Qualcomm handheld is still two years away assuming it doesn’t get delayed. Qualcomm’s next generation of chips are expected to be alot better, and Microsoft have been improving their x86->arm translation layer lately. It’s too early to tell if a qualcomm handheld is a bad idea.
Qualcomm makes a lot of hype/noise but historically tends to overpromise, and also makes some unforced blunders. But a real ARM competitor would be great.
True, though people tend to replace laptops when they fall out of support or start having hardware issues, much less often to do an upgrade looking for more frames.
I still feel Microsoft has to bring something hot to really sway anyone over since they have a long history of competing in the mobile hardware space and fumbling it hard.
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