Also this chart from the article is very telling.

Just look at that difference- pic.twitter.com/unTRZRe4ko

— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) June 22, 2016

DS vs 3DS software sales

Anyone realize how poor the 3DS is performing? This chart is telling: https://t.co/wOTdaASXCZ $NTDOY #NintendoE3 pic.twitter.com/aTDizwl0hE

— Bryan Cashman (@consulgamer) June 22, 2016

I mean... Mobile = 1 billion + devices vs handheld = ~60 million...

Obviously Mobile > Handheld... Specially since the Vita has been dead since forever and Nintendo is gonna launch their newest one soon.

Surprise?? I mean this was a well known fact for awhile now right??
Hell if you were somehow unaware that this was happening then surely you noticed when Nintendo decided to start making mobile games.

This is expected. One, there are over one billion smartphones and tablets. Two, the handheld market is super small. Vita is a failure while the 3DS has a mediocre 60 million. And three, Nintendo is aiming to launch a new handheld soon. Sales are expected to decline.

Besides, don't compare it to the ds. We'll never get numbers like that ever again

I don't really understand this quote "Yup. It baffles me when people try to say 3DS is doing well. " combined with the chart when you compare 1 handheld (3DS, 2 if we add in Vita but the chart goes to 2019 so likely only a Nintendo handheld by then) to mobile.

It's basically like comparing a revenue chart of "BMW" in 1 bar and "Every other can manufacturer in the world" Comparing one device by one company to everything else in the world is likely to show revenue charts like that.

This is how handheld vs. mobile works. Nintendo vs. rest of world.

And yes, handheld gaming is passing away basically. No one should expect Nintendos next handheld to do better than 3DS.

Not that you need to like it. I don't.

Edit: Keep in mind, last gen was the best handheld gaming ever had with over 150 million DS and over 80 million PSP. This gen hasn't even reached a third of those sales. It's still behind the shortlived GBA.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Tell to this guy to also do a comparison with GBA! Enough with this unfair comparison just to spread negativity for Nintendo...

When it comes to home consoles, people like him, make comparisons with wii and without for obvious reasons., but when it comes to handheld consoles, we don't see any comparison with GBA, 6th gen only handheld console... Always ds, why? Hmmmm...

Nintendo said in May NPD that 3DS has shipped 60ml and GBA in 2006 has shipped 75ml and 3ds shipped 274ml in software while GBA shipped 335ml around the same time.

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/sales/hard_soft/

http://forums.sega.com/archive/index.php/t-64526.html

I know how 3ds compares to gba... I just expressing my vexation about  why always comparisons are with just ds, an irregular sales success...

GBA has sold in  327m software  in the same time frame, not  335m...  3DS is projected to ship 55m software units in its 6th year while gba sold in  39m in its sixth year!

3DS should end with no less than 70m hardware sales and with no less than 360m software sales... Both figures will be very close to those of GBA! Not bad, eh?