You can't imagine paying 80 bucks for a GBA SP? You buy liters of "Citrus Drop" and "Dr. Sparkle" instead of Mountain Dew and Dr. Pepper, don't you?

That's where the difference between you and I comes in. I don't consider myself to ever be in a situation where I "don't have anything better to do than play a handheld." I find myself with free time, and decide to dedicate it to playing videogames. Sometimes I'm in the mood for a good console game, but sometimes I'm in the mood to play some Fire Emblem in the sun. I just go with whatever appeals to me at the moment. Handhelds, for you it seems, would feel almost like a last resort, right? To each his own, I guess.