The little guy is having a tough time. He’s been resisting bedtime and naptime so strongly that he’s missing wurricane time. During today’s nap, he went into the closet where my suitcase and backpack are, opened both and removed everything, including my work laptop 💻 and my #Nintendo #3DS handheld videogame device. He found a Sharpie in there, too, so he scribbled on the 3DS screens.
Fortunately, I had plastic screen protectors. Also fortunately, he didn’t deface the work laptop.
Friday's cross-country travel was sixteen hours from door to door. I'm getting paid for most of it. The bag of cheezits on the planecounts as a half hour lunch.
Also, it was too dark for me to play with my handheld game system (Nintendo #3DS), so that and the #Nintendo #Switch got zero gameplay in 11 months.
Now that my work schedule is more normal, I may pull out the #3DS or the #Switch and try to play a game with #A1, my 8 year old grandson.
I brought both of them on this trip, but in 3 months, I haven’t had either one turned on for more than ten minutes total. I really should have brought the #PSP instead.
But if he and I play together, it will be worth it.
I thought about bringing the #PSP or the #PSVita with me, but instead I brought the Nintendo #Switch and the #3DS. Not that I’ve had any time to play, but in over a month, I haven’t even turned either one on.
I think it is official: I may say I like these Nintendo systems, but the way I avoid playing them says otherwise. With the Sony handhelds, I still don’t play a lot, but when I do, I enjoy it … and I don’t avoid them out of dread.
I brought the #Nintendo #3DS and #Switch with me on this trip. I think I turned each one on for about two or three minutes, then turned them both off before even starting to play any games.
I expect that the 3DS will be given to GS3 sometime after his 8th birthday, unless someone buys a 2DS for him first.
Playing a little MegaMan on the #3DS. I and Daddy_A have MegaMan 11 for the #Switch (even though I don’t think I’ve played it yet), and I think I bought it for all of us on the #PS4, too.
I still occasionally play the #PS4, the #Switch, or the #3DS (in decreasing order). But with the last two, 10-20 minutes and I don't even want to look at the machine for a week or two. At least I always have a low-key desire to play the PS4.
I currently have no plans to purchase the next generation of consoles unless utilization is much higher.
It could just be that I never owned or pkayed any #Nintendo devices, but I find that I rarely play more than 10 minutes at a time on #Switch, #Wii-U, or #3DS, while I can play for up to an hour on #PSP and #PSVita.
And that's enough for this play session. Even games that are enjoyable, on #3DS, I don't want to play very long. Usually 20-30 minutes and I'm done.
I know Sony did not sell as many #PSP and #PSVita units as Nintendo sold of their contemporary handhelds, but the Sony handhelds and the games for them are just more fun.
Played Angry Birds Star Wars, one of only about two #3DS games I like. After about three minutes, I just powered down. I like it, but not enough to play it right now.
Do I try to make today (Saturday!) a productive day, or do I make it a play some games day? It has been a couple of weeks since I last played anything on either the #PS4 or the #Switch ... and longer than that for the #PS3 or any of the handhelds ( #PSP, #PSVita, #3DS ).
I was looking back at the videogame console purchase history. I'm not even sure I'm including every item when I say I bought 5 Nintendo #Switch consoles, 8 Sony #PS4 consoles something like 6 or 8 #PSVita & #PSP handhelds and 6 #2DS & #3DS handhelds, 2 #Wii-U consoles and 2 #PS3 consoles and 2 #XBox consoles (whichever generation was contemporary with the PS3).
(Not all for me. Sons, grandkids, and certain others got most of those.)
When he was born, they lived right around the corner from me, so for the first couple of years, I saw him multiple times per week ... whenever I was in town. In fact, I watched more "Thomas the Tank Engine" with him than any person my age should ever have seen. (Only one of the other grandkids has ever lived near me, and she was not in walking range.)
When he was four, they came to town around my birthday, and I was home. So he came over and sat on my lap and told me about all the games he played on their #Wii-U ... and about this new game he wanted that was only available for #Switch and #3DS. He didn't ask me to buy him anything, he just talked to me about what was important to him. Of course, he had a #2DS within a few weeks. A month or so later, I sent a Switch. (The 2DS is the same as a 3DS without the 3D simulation that is believed to damage growing children's real world depth perception.)