Best Handheld Game Consoles

The main Switch console is equipped with a powerful custom designed NVIDIA Tegra X1 SoC (system on chip). The internal storage space is 32GB with several gigabytes reserved for the system and the rest available for downloading games and other multimedia content. Games can be downloaded from special game cartridges or directly from the Nintendo eShop online store. The company purposefully made cartridges unpleasant to taste by applying a bittering agent Denatonium Benzoate to their surface so that children do not chew or swallow them, thereby making cartridges more safe for children. At the moment, users are offered many different games of many genres and types with the game list expanding all the time. It is possible to connect up to 8 consoles to each other and use the multiplayer mode to play together. Moreover, you can subscribe to the paid Nintendo Switch online service and play with friends around the world. For easy communication during your gaming sessions, you can use a voice chat. This handheld console by Nintendo supports the Amiibo service that offers you additional content in games to go with your figure and enables you to share achievements and impressions with other players.

The Joy-Con bundled controllers deserve special attention. The first thing to note is that there are two console supply package versions with Joy-Con controllers being either gray or multicolored (red and blue), depending on the version you choose. Each controller is equipped with an accelerometer and a gyroscope, and the right controller is additionally equipped with an infrared motion camera. The controllers can be used as separate elements, allowing two users to interact with a game at once, or as a single unit called Joy-Con Grip. In addition, you can attach Joy-Con straps to the controllers to use in games based on movement and inertia mechanics.

This model features a TV output, which means you will be able to connect the handheld gaming console to your TV and enjoy the playing on a big screen. In its price range, this Sony console stands out thanks to this feature. However, there are several "but"s. If you use the console to play video from UMD disks or Memory Sticks, the video of up to 720x480 pixels will play out well, but as for the games, the resolution is the "native" 480x272 pixels. If your TV does not feature a progressive scanning technology, the playback will be in a window mode. Back to the advantages, we'd like to point out that this model can be charged using a USB port. In a way, it simplifies the use quite a lot. And there are some technical upgrades. Sony designed this gaming console in a way that allows the data from UMD disk to cache into the PSP memory so that the game loading process took less time. And the RAM has been expanded to 64MB. It is not a Nintendo DS or Gameboy, but it is still a great console, even after all these years since it was created. Especially considering that its technical support by Sony is performed in full.

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The Nintendo company is over 125 years old. Can you imagine how many interesting facts could accumulate for such a long time?

• The first game ever that Nintendo offered to the market was the handmade Japanese playing cards called Hanafuda or "Flower cards". They became popular so fast that the company founder Fusajiro Yamauchi had to hire additional staff for mass production.
• Throughout the company history Nintendo changed the name quite a few times, however, the "Nintendo" part was always present. Now we know it as Nintendo Co., Ltd.
• The first subsidiary in the US was opened by Nintendo in 1980. The same year the first LCD handheld game series for Nintendo, the Game & Watch was developed. It was also the first LCD game console with a microprocessor.
• The very first Game & Watch game was called Ball in Japan and Toss-Up in the US. During the years the Game & Watch was being manufactured from 1980 to 1991, the number of games created for it exceeded 40. It included the world-known Mario Bros./Super Mario Bros., Popeye, Mickey Mouse, and Zelda.
• The technology of those years was not enough to create a really long gameplay, so the game designers intentionally made the gaming process more difficult. This way, the users spent more time on a single game.
• One of the major breakthroughs for Nintendo was the release of the Donkey Kong game. The game featured a character named Mario who had to rescue his princess from the giant gorilla. The way to the princess had obstacles like walls Mario had to jump over, brake, or climb. The Donkey Kong was the first game featuring Mario and was followed by a large number of other games about him and, later, his brother Luigi.

Today Nintendo is firmly in the top video game developers list, and its New 3DS XL model does really deserve the attention. The 3D display and convenient controls will make you lose yourself in the game. And if you've been a fan of Nintendo before, you will probably be pleased to know that Nintendo New 3DS XL handheld console supports cartridges from earlier editions like 3DS and DS.

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This Sony handheld game console will offer you a chance to play a great variety of interesting and popular games which you can either download into its built-in memory or to memory cards. At the moment more than a thousand video games of all types and genres exist for this device. The built-in memory is 1Gb, which is plenty to store all your games plus some extra multimedia content. This portable video game console is also equipped with an ARM Cortex-A9 quad-core processor with 2GHz clock rate and 512MB RAM, so all the games will run at an incredible speed and using PSP handheld Vita console will bring nothing but pleasure. Also, a new interface is brought to life in PlayStation Vita, its main difference being the LiveArea window. It is present in each app and was first introduced on the 27th of January, 2011 during the PlayStation Meeting along with the PlayStation Vita itself. In this window, you can observe your friends' latest activity, tutorials and also app icons. This interface allows you to use apps in a window mode and also in a background mode, allowing you to run another app immediately. It supports up to 10 desktops with up to 10 icons in each.

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Aside from multimedia options like audio and video playback, the 2DS personal game system also features the Mii service. The MiiMaker will offer you the possibility to create a virtual character and upload it to the special network to interact with other players in chat rooms, follow their achievements, or just share some news. The unique editor not only allows creating a character using presets. With a specific tool, you can make the character look like you from any photo! The range of editing options is really great, so you will easily create a character that will look like no other. Then you will be able to upload him or her to the network and play with friends, holding contests in various games. Communication is important, and with this handheld gaming console, you will find new friends in a blink!

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