20 Years of Handheld Console Evolution

marcellizot writes "It has taken a while for handheld consoles to crawl from the primordial 8-bit slime to today's apex predator polygon juggling brutes. To illustrate just how much things have advanced over the last 20 years, Pocket Gamer has pulled together a few facts and figures in pretty chart form. Pitting the vital statistics of the critical handhelds of today and yesteryear against one another, there are some interesting facts to be gleaned from this infotainment extravaganza."

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Re:Minor Comment on the Aside

[tomstdenis]

To be honest, the cartridge makes more sense for portables. They take less power, less prone to breaking, load faster, etc. Sure they cost more to produce but in the end the value is higher.

Also why I play my SP more than my PSP even though various PSP games are teh fun.

Tom