Welcome to the Ohms Lounge podcast! episode 20. Today we have OHMS and thelonesalesman discussing handheld gaming and our personal experience with it and where we see the technology at today and where it is going.

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Hosts:

OHMS and thelonesalesman

0:00 Intro

0:30 Our experience with handhelds

3:00 the "Nintendo DS" era to the Nintendo Switch

6:30 The Rise of the Steamdeck

9:30 The "other" type of steamdecks.. Lenovo/ MSI/ etc

11:35 Will the Switch 2 be good/ Looking back on norms of handhelds in past

16:35 The evolution of handhelds and games 

18:48 Looking at playstation Portal/ Looking back on PSP

23:45 Xbox's solution: Logitech cloud gaming handheld

27:30 How much did previous handhelds sell for? 

31:10 Steam OS open source / Comparing major Gaming Companies  

35:05 The future of handhelds

40:00 The monetization issues vs market place differences 

43:00 How AR and VR could be future of handheld gaming

46:30 Steam's Roy Deckard

50:00 will VR/ AR be the norm? 

References:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXbOxV-4kxk

https://imgur.com/a/where-are-they-now-handheld-consoles-k01DZ?gallery

https://x.com/SadlyItsBradley/status/1780340675772305542