Klosshufvud
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Without a doubt, this year is the best year ever to be a handheld enthusiast. For the first time ever, we can play games handheld on a PC platform and not being beholden to some shitty closed walled garden business that demands us to rebuy all our older games. There's been a lot of alternatives for a lot of tastes with different budgets. Steam Deck OLED has been a substantial upgrade over the original version and the Windows handhelds come in every form factor and power profile for every taste. Improvements are being made on a daily basis and we don't go by a single week without some substantial hardware news on the handheld front. The star of the show is obviously the AMD SoC of Ryzen CPU and RDNA2-3 graphics. It has enabled a level of low wattage gaming that was just a few years back considered a fantasy. These chips allow us to play everything from 8-bit era classics to modern current-gen games ported straight from PS5/Series consoles. This is the first time in history where someone with a handheld can play a AAA release on the same date all while having a perfectly acceptable gaming experience. Something considered an impossibility for decades. 2023 marks a paradigm shift for handhelds, and it will hopefully only keep snowball further from here. Do you guys agree?