Damn.
Not much to say other than -- "Damn."
You're right, though.
Counterpoint: A modern SBC Console from China (Retroid, Anbernic, whatever) will play a library in the thousands of titles, WHILE fitting in your pocket AND having a modern screen.
Grudging respect.
I don't like motorcycles either, but they are the "noble steed" of my country's entire service industry, and being a worker in said service industry is a very sucky (and dangerous!) position to be in.
So I don't like bikes. But. I respect their riders. Their lives are hard and they are therefore stronger than I.
I mean. All my friends who match my freak live 120Km+ away from me and so I have played online games with them.
But man it's just not the same as the experience of snacks, a beat up sofa, crowding around a television, yelling at each other, yanno?
Turns out manufacturing individual, low-power-draw, micron-sized lights is not easy. Even if it's conceptually not as cool, it requires much better manufacturing processes and materials.
A student project, actually. Valve saw a college student doing fun/weird shit inside their engine and went "You're hired".
Or we'll keep chasing horizons that will forever be deadly but cool.
But now we're leaving "this old invention is cool" territory and getting into "humans are space orcs" waters.
I generally can't be arsed with online multiplayer -- Just as a concept.
But I made great memories with my cousins playing Wii/GameCube local multiplayer titles. Smash, Mario Kart, Sonic Adventure 2, et cetera.
YEYEYEYEYEYEYE
One of my dream projects would be to get a dead iMac G3 and make a modern-day sleeper build inside it. It was honestly the COOLEST a computer has EVER looked.
.... We (as in humanity) made a lot of cool shit before we realised it was slowly killing us.
This sounds like a gadget specifically designed to make people fall off their bikes and break their bones.
......... Cool.
But do you bond burger my sister?