SleepWaking said:
Was going to say the same thing until I saw your response and knew I couldn't explain it better. |
Normally yes I would agree with your statement 100% but I think even though handhelds negatively effect the home console market it still has some pull in its own section of the gaming market. You can say the PC takes away from the console market, which it does, but we don't consider it the same thing. They fall under gaming but they are all under their own sub genre of gaming, just like table games (poker, board games) and every type of toy and electronic that is considered a game (cell phone games are their own sub-genre btw).
Each sub-genre effects the other sub-genres in their own ways. Betting in a poker game and losing all your cash doesn't really let you buy a console now does it?
What system or console a developer chooses to make a game for doesn't matter. Remember Nintendo originally made board games, like Go!. If Bioware made a board game what would gamers do? buy the board game if they want to play right?
lol, bad analogy but hopefully it gets the point across.
Still, handheld systems can be taken anywhere, home consoles cant. They don't directly compete as handhelds don't compete for control of the living room. They compete and win quite effectively when it comes to going anywhere outside of the home.
So my argument is, same genre, different sub-genres, one effects the other, but cant compare because there are to many differences better all the sub-genres.