Gaming in public

When was the last time you were standing somewhere public, took the phone out of your pocket, scrolled on some app for a while, and then left it, and moved on? When was the last time you did that while still walking? perhaps almost crashing on someone in front of you? Even if you haven’t done that yourself—I’m very sure you have seen some other people staring at those phone screens, even when others are present, without really thinking much about it. It is normalized behavior. At the end of the day, one shouldn’t really care about it very much. However, it seems like when it comes to videogame handhelds, things feel a little different… After all, when was the last time you played on a handheld console in public, or saw someone else doing so? It’s like something in our heads tells us that you shouldn’t be gaming when others are seeing. Is it a sense of cringe? as if it would ruin our public image? making us seem childish or immature? Obviously things have a time and a place, but it…