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mrstickball said: I never said Nintendo was doomed. I just said thier handhelds are going to face a market-changing move after the 3DS generation. I fully believe Nintendo will make the right moves to stay in the game, as they always have. Look at what they did with the DSi with downloadable games, a camera, and other phone-esque features. Same can go for the Wii and Netflix. Nintendo isn't dumb, you are right in that they are very smart. That just doesn't mean that they have to have a 80% stranglehold on the handheld market ad nauseum. |
What do you mean by handheld market? Personally, I believe they'll be close to have 100% in handheld market when PSP is gone and Nintendo once again the only player on the field. If we do include mobile gaming though it's already less than 50%, and neither iPhone nor Android have anything to do with it, since the market that contributed most to this growth is Asia. Mobile gaming revenue was close to $3 billion a year before iPhone was introduced. I wonder why only now people make a big deal out of mobile gaming when it was here for quite a while? From my perspective Nintendo already did "right moves" and stayed in the game, otherwise the fast-paced growth of mobile gaming would have cannibalized them a few years ago. Instead I see market growth occuring on both sides, in mobile AND handheld gaming businesses.
