my brother in christ you are the one who included them in the video

The scariest thing is when Austin has facial hair

Sign me in pls, i will need therapy, now I understand why those videos are private.

@@Stingerhuayra his stash is always so scary

Seeing the team go at it is hilarious

Glad someone agrees, nostalgia got to these dudes HARD

I would have bought a new 3DS XL had Nintendo not dropped support on making them in favor of the Switch so fast. Dunno what they were thinking there but they have stuck with the dumb switch for far too long, and the New 3DS for far too little

also with modding you can run Playstation games too!

also if you are a modder (like I am) it can actually run N64 games as well which is pretty nice

I’d say the GBA SP is more of an A tier because it can cram your hands and the battery life is lower than that of AAs plus it dropped the headphone jack whilst the design was a cool idea it’s not very comfortable to hold for hours

It also deserves a bump to C or even B as the screen was amazing and audio were amazing for such a tiny console. I loved it. I still love it. Had it in my pocket a work. Try that with a PSP and not look like you're happy to see absolutely everyone and their dog.

@@s.l.thompson1843 The Micro is so underated. I still play it to this day. The screen is great, you can take it with you anywhere. The battery life is very good. To me it should have been at least a B. So ahead of its time when it came out. The only downside is that it's not backward compatible with GB/GBC games, but it's solved with an EZ Flash Omega or an Everdrive that can emulate it.

I agree. I love my Micro. It's super small so I can carry it anywhere if I want. I own probably 75% of these and it's in my top 5 IMO.

Those adapters work on the DS btw.

@hwat Agreed, and I'm so glad I snagged the Link Between Worlds version. Such a great special edition design. Side note, I read your name in Hank Hill's voice.

@hwat none of them should be in D teir. C or higher, in the least.

I have nostalgia for it because I fit it for like my 7th birthday from my nana and I played the heck out it

@@rickyrat42069 I pretty much had to always keep it off cause it not only barely worked for me. But also gave me headaches of I used it for more than an hour.

So sick of people going "literally no one used 3D!" I use it all the time when the game implements it properly.

I think it's wise to keep at 'A' tier since the device is still so new. Most everything else on the list has been out far longer and thus their effect on the market and gaming landscape is known. The Steam Deck could either succeed or decline in the future, so you have to leave some room for doubt.

What are you talking about? The price point isn't very low. Is more expensive than all the handhelds there.

@@SIPEROTH It’s not cheap compared to the other handheld consoles but it’s cheap for what it can do.

@@SIPEROTH at point where Steam Deck is a whole PC the price isn’t high

The issue that keeps it A for me over S tier is size and weight, despite how good it is for performance. Great screen, great software overall, good haptics but I wouldn't want to carry it with me. I'm excited by AYN's Loki and Odin because they have enough performance at smaller sizes, and can't wait to see what handhelds with the i3-1215u or Mendocino can offer in terms of battery life and playability.

Same here np on those issues that parents think better for girth of children's hands

I love this comment!

Was it a commercial success?

@@agenericaccount3935 unfortunately it was about as unsuccessful as the game gear

I loved mine and wish I still had it.

@@Haftower You wish it was as unsuccessful as the Game Gear. It was far worse. The GG sold more than 10 times what the Lynx did.

@@NiGHTSnoob and the Game Gear sold 10x less than the Game Boy.

Also the Neo Geo Pocket Color. The Wonderswan Color should be here but it never got released outside of Japan sadly.

Oh God the PSP Go is literally a brick unless you hack it. So officially speaking, it's an F but you could add some points for the implementation of the hardware, maybe? I wouldn't give it more than a D.

@@bloodbond3 I would give it a C tier because one whilst it’s a useless console if you don’t have games installed but if you mod it then there you go also the screen is unbelievably bright and the design was so good. The PSP Go just wasn’t to advantage of an all digital version of PSP so for all of that it pushes up to C tier in my opinion

The oled is clearly the best switch. And I love it.....but the joycons are trash....so it gets a A. But I will say these fools are clearly being stupid blinded by nostalgia. Ranking the new 3ds xl so low is just dumb.

@@packers12to80 I agree! The New 3DS XL was great and played so many amazing games! Love my red one. Honestly, if Nintendo were to finally fix drifting issue with the Joy-Con then that would fix pretty much all the issues I have with them. Wouldn’t mind a small bump for grip on the back too actually.

@Caden Churchill yeah I agree. These dudes made a horrible list....screamed about how amazing the gba was and praised it for it's backwards compatibility to Gameboy yet the 3ds played ds games lol. And the only thing keeping switch out of s was the joy cons for me.....which they praised lmao.....just bad biased takes that made 0 sense. But whatever I guess...their list lol

I would put it in c tier. The quality is not the greatest and It was released at the time when Nintendo just stopped caring about their products

@@summers01 what? Put what in c? The switch nor the new 3dsxl Belong anywhere near c

Woah, didn't expect to see you here! Love your videos man! The DS was so crazy when it came out, like seemed so futuristic when compared to even the SP! It was such a great time for gaming too, bringing the DS to field trips and stuff to play Mario Kart with all your friends!

DON'T FORGET WIFIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

I still have my lynx, and i just commented that they missed it too, how dare they!

OMG thank you. This list is pretty horrible, it's like he's based it off the Number of Sales. If we measure Quality based on Quantity, it's akin to saying the best food in the world is McDonalds. I think a MORE interesting way to compare Handheld Consoles, is to quantify their hardware capabilities compared to their Home Consoles. The shorter the gap, the more graphics you're getting for your dollar. And if there's a huge gap you could argue you're getting ripped-off.

We can order them IMPERFECTLY like this: 1988 (C+ Grade) Nintendo GameBoy vs Sega MasterSystem 1989 (A- Grade) Atari Lynx vs NEC TurboGrafx-16 1990 (B+ Grade) Sega GameGear vs Sega MegaDrive 1991 (B Grade) Atari Lynx 2 vs Super Nintendo ES 1992 (S Grade) PC-Engine GT vs SNK NeoGeo Home 1995 (A+ Grade) Sega Nomad vs Sega CD-32X 1997 (C- Grade) SNK NeoGeo Pocket vs Sega Saturn 1998 (D+ Grade) Nintendo GBC vs Sony PlayStation 1999 (D Grade) Bandai WonderSwan vs Nintendo 64 2000 (D- Grade) SNK NeoGeo Color vs Sega DreamCast 2001 (C- Grade) Nintendo GBA vs Sony PS2 2002 (D Grade) Bandai SwanCrystal vs Nintendo GameCube 2003 (C- Grade) Nokia N-Gage vs Nintendo Wii 2004 (A- Grade) Sony PSP vs Microsoft Xbox 2005 (C- Grade) Nintendo DS vs Microsoft Xbox 360 2006 (B Grade) Sony PSP 2000 vs Sony PS3 2007 (D+ Grade) Nintendo DS Lite vs Sony PS3 2008 (C+ Grade) Sony PSP Go vs Sony PS3 2009 (D Grade) Nintendo DSi vs Sony PS3 2010 (B- Grade) Sony-Ericsson Xperia Play vs Sony PS3 2011 (C- Grade) Nintendo 3DS vs Sony PS3 2012 (A Grade) Sony PS Vita vs Nintendo WiiU 2013 (B Grade) Nvidia Shield vs MS Xbox One 2014 (D Grade) Nintendo new3DS vs Sony PS4 2015 (C+ Grade) GPD XD vs Sony PS4 2016 (B- Grade) GPD Win vs Sony PS4 2017 (B+ Grade) Nintendo Switch vs Sony PS4 Pro 2018 (A- Grade) GPD Win 2 vs MS Xbox One X 2019 (C+ Grade) Nintendo Switch Lite vs MS Xbox Series S 2021 (A Grade) Valve SteamDeck vs Sony PS5 2022 (C+ Grade) Retroid Pocket 3+ vs MS Xbox Series X ...i took some liberty with the years and the match-ups, but overall they're pretty well aligned and gives a good idea to the reader. I graded them based on the match-up, and tried to use my best unbiased judgement. We need to PREFACE this with the fact that the processor alone does not make a handheld great, but it is one of the primary components of the experience. Nintendo/Bandai/SNK showed consistently low scores which indicates they release under-powered handhelds. Whilst GPD/Sony/Sega consistently released high scores that indicates they release over-powered handhelds. The likes of the 1992 PC EngineGT had the highest S score for being almost on-parity for Graphical Fidelity with the Home Consoles of its period. Contrast that with the 2000 SNK NeoGeo Color which scored the lowest D- score for being grossly under-powered compared to its peers, those Home Consoles had seen big technological leap.

The moment he says the game gear was the first color handheld I was like: nope. Atari lynx.

@@ekinteko Clearly the list is based of the toys they've owned and how much nostalgia they have for them. "it's best because I had it and played it all the time"

Also not impressed with those omissions. Add NeoGeo Pocket (Color) and WonderSwan to that list. At least they remembered the Micro this time.

They would’ve put them in ether D tier or F tier

I still have mine! I cant believe they didnt have it. This isnt a true handheld tier list without it

Atari Lynx, Neo Geo Pocket & Neo Geo Pocket Color, TurboExpress?

Well yeah but you don't release a handheld console with the thought of "in 20 years batteries will be much better". Even normal AA batteries are better now and will probably last double on what 6 AA will have lasted then but that is not an excuse.

@@SIPEROTH but still it doesn't deserve a f

@@SIPEROTH You could buy rechargables for the Nomad, even back then.

Yeah but the screen is tiny, it’s super bulky, back when it was relevant battery was ass and the screen got super blurry whenever there was a bunch of movement so stuff like Sonic wasn’t really playable Def not an F especially for the time but I’d say C or D

Yeah for a guy that had such a hardon for the gamegear I was also surprised by the F rating considering it had all the downfalls of the gamegear, but all the game library of the Sega Genesis which automatically puts it way ahead.

@@richardg5301 They also think the Game Gear was the first color handheld, and not being able to see Circle of the Moon anywhere darker than the surface of the sun is A tier. The entire list was made by puppydog fanwank.

Or, Wonderswan...

That's because im clearly double SS+ tier

Tbh i dont really like the steam deck for what its worth is. I got nintendo switch instead because of it being absolutely small that it can fit in my pocket (albeit a bit too big but can fit) and i take it anywhere for me to play with my sister or friends. And another big reason for me is Joycons since the fact you can detach them and stuff and play 2 player is kewl. Altough they missed out on the oppurtunity to make it VR (they did but wasn't good). But tbh i would agree that steam deck in terms of games and emulation capabilites but to be fair i would prefer the switch for its feeling and stuff. Sure i could emulate but as one person said "Optimization is king" - Linus. But hey i wouldn't deny a steamdeck! I think steamdeck is a fair competition for nintendo and stuff.

That, and the Vita

@@d4nyll Vita has so many homebrew projects that it's dumb to not consider it

My main problem was having to keep asking my parents to buy me more AA batteries 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@NoName-nb9qiI had the rechargeable battery accessory, as much as I loved my game gear, this battery was basically a soap on a rope style thing you plugged externally on the game gear. But if I was taking my game gear on the bus, I just had it in my backpack and wired it our to my game gear. I watched so much TV on my bus trip home, it was great. But not as smooth easy as just pulling out a cellphone in the today times.

as a kid my mom was going to buy me a ds lite right around the dsi was launched so i asked her for the new one instead. once i got it and learned i couldnt play game boy games i started to regret it a little bit

Get rechargeable AA's

@@jimmymyers Convincing your parents to get rechargable batteries and a charger back then was pretty tricky. And the batteries weren't very good.

Definitely not s, they messed up the product to much and split features that should have been in all of them. The 1000 had to little ram and the 2000 and 3000 were the best but with them not having Bluetooth like the psp go it gimped them. You can hook the 2/3000 series up to a TV but you can't use a external controller. The psp go could be hooked up to a TV and use a ps3 six axis controller which is great but the no drive kinda sucks.

@@billy-waynejeffcoat4828 But the community literally improved it soo much even though i have a switch, it is cool to see the community fixing the psp

I think PSP is between A and S tier. Great little device for it's time but it still came second. As about the Switch, i actually thing is kind of low and it should be S tier and this from a person that thinks is not that great as trying to be a console instead of a handheld. But since we are looking for handhelds then it deserves top status. It is really the best handheld device Nintendo ever made. As a console it may seem kind of weak but as a handheld it is the most powerful thing Nintendo ever released and i don't mean it just because it is newer tech and is obviously stronger but in comparison with it's time. I guess this happened because they tried to make a hybrid and they had to put the minimum power to excuse it as serving as a normal console as well. The DS or 3DS or the Game Boy's before them had no chance on playing any title that looked anything close to their big console brothers. But the Switch actually has many big titles etc that they have and on top of that many interested indie titles. If you also account the amazing support and success how can it not be high no matter what complains ones has. It has the games and it has the success and feels great to play. All other deficiencies aren't enough to take from that.

As a handheld, Switch OLED is S tier. The screen is so nice. As a home console, the Switch is D tier at best. The joycons are bad for standalone use. The performance is bad. I’d rather have a Switch Lite with a beautiful 7” OLED screen.

@@itsmoses7973 Personally i think it depends on your expirience, but i have a normal switch and tbh i would prefer the Switch OLED but i could also buy the steamdeck though i would also like to have seperate joycons!

Deadass didn’t know they featured a real console in Ex-Aid :o

@@kittyfries915 yeah! i figure it's gotta do with Bandai being the main owner of toy rights to Kamen Rider

even without homebrew, it is great. it should be higher than the gamegear.

The vita with updated specs would fit right in with the craze of handheld pcs and portable gaming devices on the market right now. Even back in the day it had some nice console ports like the switch does. Too bad the memory card held it back.

I agree with the PSP Go. I didn’t realize that it was a digital handheld when I bought mine but I loved the original PSP. I never had the Vita though. I’m still salty that I missed that one. I had all of the DS models except the New 3DS (smaller version of the New 3DS XL).

Steam Deck not being S tier is blasphemous. It can literally emulate all the other handhelds AND most consoles

Where is turboxpress? Lol

The vita was really slept on. It has a decent selection of games but for me it was my first "smart" device, which I used for years until i got my first smartphone. Not to mention it was doing console games and game streaming years before the switch, steam deck and other ultra portable devices. I think if sony tried another portable console it would fit right in todays market.

@@pajamas720 PS Vita was B tier, when it came out, today it's A or even S tier. NPS Browser, Adrenaline for PSP, Retro Arch, Ps3 remote play, PS4 link, exclusive games like PERSONA 4 GOLDEN!!!!!!!!