WhiteTigerShiro post=9.73012.781010 said:
That's completely far from the truth, and one of the negative stigmas that handhelds will probably never shake.
Hand-held Myth #1: I can only play a hand-held console when I'm outside of the house.
Completely untrue. I play my DS quite frequently at the house. Sometimes while sitting at the computer, sometimes for a little while as I lay in bed just before going to sleep, or where-ever. The beauty thing about a hand-held isn't that you can only play it outside of the house, it's that you can play it ANYWHERE. It isn't locked-down to a single room like consoles or a PC, requiring a tedious tear-down/set-up to move to a different location. I can just get it out and turn it on where-ever it suits my fancy.
I think you misunderstood me. Clearly you can play an hand-held ANYWHERE... But the brings about the question: "Why?".
If you're at home...Why? I have yet to see a game for an hand-held (ANY hand-held mind you) that's legitimately superior to anything else of the kind I can play on a PC, or PS2 (I don't own a third gen console, but if you do, even worst)... So as a console, any hand-held so far is clearly inferior, their only advantage is portability...Sure I can bring and play a Nintendo DS in the kitchen but... Why would I do that? I setup my gaming stuff in my room cause it's where I like to play... while I'm playing I'm generally more concerned about the game than constantly changing the room I'm in... Even then if you have a laptop you can do the same with far superior games.
WhiteTigerShiro post=9.73012.781010 said:
Hand-held Myth #2: If I only play it while I'm out of the house, then doesn't this mean I'm busy with something else?
Not always. Frankly I keep my DS on me everywhere I go so that if I end-up somewhere with nothing else to do, I can just get that out. Maybe I goto a friend's house and he's playing a single player game for a while, I can play the DS until he's done and we do something else. Boring family get-together? You can play the DS between chatting with random relatives (the flip-closed sleep mode makes it easy to put it down for a while on the fly). Basically, just because you're out of the house doesn't always mean your schedule is jam-packed. I love having my DS handy for those moments when there's a lull in things to do.
I'm sure I could come-up with other myths about hand-held systems if I really thought about them, but those are a couple of the more common ones I tend to see. At the end of the day though, some people are just stubborn. They won't buy a hand-held because they simply don't want one, which is fine, but they always offer-up excuses (generally in the form of a myth) that just ask to be countered. They'll never just up and admit that they simply don't want one.
I suppose this varies from person to person but right now I can only think of 1 situation where I would like to have an hand-held: waiting endlessly in line for something. And this happens what... Once every 2 months? Specially with all the new technologies we're developing to allow more and more things to be done online, the need to be stuck hours and hours on tedious lines grows scarce.
Every other possibility, If I'm going somewhere, I'm doing something... If I'm in a family get-together it's cause I wanna hang out with my family, usually over a nice lunch or dinner. If I don't wanna hang out with them, if they bore me enough to want to play games instead, I don't go. I stay home using my computer, or go elsewhere where I DO wanna go and do something I want to do.
In other words, I'm not 12 anymore, I leave the house for 2 situations: I either wanna go somewhere, or HAVE to go somewhere. I'm rarely forced to go anywhere on official business, and even rarely do I have to stand around doing nothing for long periods of time in the process, which is when I'd play an hand-held. If I don't really wanna go somewhere, I don't... If I do want to go somewhere, I wanna enjoy whatever I'm going there to do, which might be hard to do when focusing my attention on a videogame neh?
