Currently, the mainstream attention of the gaming industry is all on the VR platform.

As for the handheld machine, as Meng Zuo said before, it has already declined.

There are even many old handheld machine manufacturers, who are bankrupt and acquired, who are acquired.

Chen Xu also has some understanding of this.

But in Chen Xu's opinion, the parallel world's handheld machines are completely taking the wrong path and narrowing their own path.

How to say it?

Can a mobile phone replace a handheld phone?

In Chen Xu's opinion, this point cannot be completely replaced.

There is no denying that mobile phones can compress handheld phones.

In fact, the relationship between mobile phones and handheld phones is a little similar to the relationship between hosts and PCs in previous lives.

As PCs become stronger and stronger, the market for hosts is actually compressed.

This is also why there was an exclusive game login to the PC platform in the past life that only the console platform had.

But can PC replace the host in the previous life? Obviously it is impossible.

The PC in the parallel world is actually a bit like the host in the previous life.

The main reason is irreplaceability.

Exclusive games, focusing more on the game experience, is cheaper than a computer with the same configuration, and is more friendly to game developers. These are advantages and doomed to the host not be eliminated by PC.

The same is true for handheld phones. With the increasing performance of mobile phones, why do people still buy handheld phones?

If it's just portability, isn't a mobile phone more convenient?

After all, there is a very famous saying: Do you don’t have a cell phone?

The real reason is that the handheld machine has unique and irreplaceable advantages.

With the rise of smartphones in the previous life, Lao Ren's handheld phone market was also constantly eroded, but in the end, Satoshi Iwata started to carry out major departmental reforms, changing the previous development concept and system, and switch emerged in such an environment.

Just like PC, mobile phones are never simply for gaming services, even so-called gaming phones.

The second is the price. If you just want to play games, a high-configured phone is actually more expensive than a handheld phone.

Compared with mobile phones that only have touch screens, the handheld machine can give players a better experience in terms of feel.

In the final analysis, mobile phones are not gaming consoles after all.

This is different from a PC because it has stronger scalability.

Moreover, in terms of operation feedback, even if the handle is not linked, the keyboard and mouse alone can bring better results than the touch screen.

At the same time, in some specific games, the keyboard and mouse have greater advantages, such as rts and shooting games.

Of course, technology has reached a certain level of darkness, which may indeed cause the handheld machine to disappear. For example, one day, a portable VR that can be controlled by mind appeared and also incorporated into devices such as making phone calls. But at that time, it is estimated that the mobile phone should have become history.

The reason why Chen Xu said that the direction of the handheld machine in this world was wrong is that the handheld machine in the parallel world completely abandoned the characteristics of the handheld machine itself and pursued hardware through various piles of materials.

Having said that, some handheld console brands that have gone bankrupt in the past two years have a lot to do with Nebula Games.

Because of these handheld consoles, we strive to be able to run games of the specifications of "Monster Hunter: World" and "Dark Souls".

Then the last machine cost is too high, so it will naturally make yourself lose.

This also made Chen Xu speechless.

After all, for handheld consoles, games are the most important thing, and hardware is just an auxiliary.

Think about Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo in their previous lives, and Microsoft is the strongest in terms of hardware configuration.

But why did you never have the advantage in the host wars of all generations?

In addition to starting the latest, the most important point is the game.

There are exclusive masterpieces such as the Last of Us, Uncharted Seas, Blood Source, and God of War on Sony. Although with the expansion of the market of the PC platform, these exclusive games will basically be logged on to PC one after another.

It cannot be denied that in the early days, these games did have very strong appeal.

But Microsoft is pitifully few, and those who can show off are halos, war machines and horizons.

As for Lao Ren, there is no need to say more. Mario, carriage, animation crossborder, chaos battles, and Pokémon series on the switch, and Zelda, who has been the number one in the world by many players, each of which is a game of tens of millions.

Of course, the game is one aspect, and more importantly, Lao Ren fully understands what kind of attractiveness the handheld console should have.

That is an irreplaceable property.

If you get a masterpiece on PS on the PC platform, will it lack some unique core experience from changing from a handle to a keyboard and mouse?

Not.

But the game on switch does.

Somatosensory, portability, sharing, these are the unique points of switch.

Many of these games are even made to adapt to display a function of switch. If some games are not played on switch, you will even feel that they are less flavorful.

Machines make games, and games make machines too.

However, Chen Xu also knew that this was also because of the timeliness of the parallel world, which made these handheld machine manufacturers more hardware manufacturers than software manufacturers.

Therefore, in the development of handheld consoles, they always focus on keeping up with the mainstream hardware era, rather than considering breaking the situation from a gaming perspective.

This leads to the cost of handheld machines becoming increasingly high, and at the same time, the pile material and even the portability of the original handheld machine are gone.

Who would like to bring a handheld machine like a brick when going out?

Atari and Nintendo in their previous lives were able to rise up. In the final analysis, they were game software manufacturers at the earliest time and knew that they should design hardware from the perspective of games.

As for Sony, it was an accident. After all, if Nintendo's premium system had not made the world's game designers work hard for a long time, they all rushed to develop games for Sony after the appearance of PS, then there was no first party for Sony to set up, and then from the perspective of gamers, it would have led to the development of movie-based games.

Microsoft? That's even more exceptional. The two words "wealthy" are enough. I can buy it without technology or experience! Didn't you Sega just lost the host battle and get so poor? I have money! If you don't want to sell yourself, then I'll give you a year or two, you should be able to agree?

So Microsoft directly entered the hosting field, which is why Microsoft's first-generation hosting was almost the same as Sega.

In Chen Xu's view, the market for handheld machines in parallel worlds is still very large.

In the previous life, the global sales of switches have reached 85 million units, and they are constantly breaking records.

Although it was supported by Lao Ren's brand, there were IP games that had developed for decades, such as Pokémon, Mario, Zelda and others.

But with the unique characteristics of switch and the games tailor-made for switch, it has also attracted countless new players who have entered the switch.

Using switch as the entry point, Chen Xu believes that this gap in the parallel world can be filled.

There is also a very important point, that is, it is possible to build switch into a unique platform.
Chapter completed!