There was no real competition between Sony or Nintendo either and no real improvement "from the clash". Both served a fairly different audience, and Nintendo never really tried to answer Playstation's allure, vice versa too. It's not like the 3ds came out and it was a totally different machine from the DS because Nintendo thought "hey, let's steal the PSP's userbase!" The whole "competition is always needed!" thing is said a lot but rarely thought about. Consoles like the Xbox One and PS4 are a great example of why competition matters, the DS and Playstation Handhelds not so much.

I don't know if Sony will never make another handheld, but I think they should focus on PS4 and PSVR right now. And then, PS5.

Best Mobile device ever made. To bad Sony decided to pull support for it, and throw $5+ Billion in the burn barrel called Xperia.

Hopefully they will return with an X86 based Mobile, with M.2, HBM, Solid State Battery, and 5G.

The Mobile market has fallen greatly in the past 5 years. It needs Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo to shake things up. Aple and Google are easily the worst market leaders I have ever seen in any industry.

Maybe, but you can say the same thing for certain consoles if you directly compare them with PS2 (PS3 for example). The DS can very much be considered an anomaly in the handheld market.

Anyway if you think Nintendo handhelds are going anywhere, anytime soon the Switch clearly shows otherwise. Compared to the entire 8th gen console market it's only trending behind 1 out of 5 systems.

ive known a few people with Vitas. at a time i thought it was kinda cool. all games could be purchased digitally, you could use it to watch movies and TV shows that you have stored on it, i think for a while there were a lot of games, mainly indies, that were only available on Vita if you wanted them portable. but now its just been second-bested by everybody else. even a budget phone today is as good of a multimedia device as a Vita. a few years after the 3DS launched, all of their games started having digital options. and im not even sure what kind of games its getting anymore. sure it looks pretty, but thats about it at this point

Sony should try again with a renamed brand. They already made their mistakes, albeit, they still haven't changed it (overpriced Memory), but now maybe they'll wise up, especially after seeing the Switch. It's a good and viable business model if they actually invest in it more, and stop being stubborn about the SD cards. Micro SD's go up to 500 GBs now, they should test out the waters with a pure digital only handheld.

Cool stuff. Has it surpassed the Zune yet?

Even Vita is getting pirate like crazy now, use Micro SD cards will help that happen a lot faster and sooner.

Um, in JP Vita have Monster Hunter Frontier Z

Every gamingg system is bad saleswise when compare them to ps2 and DS sales