RolStoppable said:
I don't think Nintendo would be worried too much, if gaming on other devices grows while their own business remains healthy as well. A good and recent example would be Nintendo losing about 30 % of the handheld gaming marketshare from the GBA generation to the DS generation, but absolutely everyone (including Nintendo) would say that the DS was still a bigger success than the GBA. Basically, growth of other sectors is only worrisome, if it comes at the expense of Nintendo. |
If you consider them as a player in the overall handheld game market, if the market size was say 100 and they controlled 80 points of that market with the GBA they had a dominant share of a reasonable size market. If that market grows to 300 points and they only control 180 they've seen massive growth but the rest of the market has seen even greater growth. Arguably that growth counts against share they could have had in a larger market even though their absolute profit/unit sales numbers are still increasing. Since most of the sales of the PSP and DS are now legacy sales we won't know how the new competition from handhelds has effected their entire userbase until it comes time for them to ask them to migrate to a new platform.
Tease.