Every Nintendo Handheld, Ranked By Their Games
Although Nintendohas always had competition in the tightly contested home console market, historically from Sega and more recently from Microsoft and Sony, the company has always been the undisputed king of the handheld console — a supremacy that began in 1989 with the Game Boy and continues to this day, over 30 years later, with the Switch Lite. Though Sony has tried on two occasions to take over the handheld console market, with the PlayStation Portable and PlayStation Vita, no non-Nintendo handheld console has ever surpassed the quality of build, catalog depth, or universal popularity of the contemporary Nintendo offering.
Beyond its near-unparalleled hardware, Nintendo is known for being behind some of the most popular franchises in gaming history — ,, and to name only a few. As the long-time handheld console producer par excellence, it can be difficult to choose which of its many systems is the best. Although there are numerous parameters to systematically identify the greatest Nintendo handheld, these generally fail to take into consideration the most significant purpose of gaming: having fun. The most appropriate method, therefore, for identifying the best of Nintendo handhelds is to consider which has the greatest catalog; in this case, quality is far more important than quantity.
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