Why do we ignore the DS?

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ssj12 said:

SleepWaking said:

naznatips said:

ssj12 said:
the DS is a handheld.. its in the handheld wars, which has already been decided that Nintendo will always control it.

The console wars = console not handhelds. The DS might outsell the PS2 but they are two different ballparks.

That argument worked a lot better before games like Dragon Quest IX and Contra 4 were announced for the DS. At this point it just seems ridiculous. Of course handhelds compete with consoles in both software and hardware sales. Of course handhelds are just as relevant. When companies like Bioware are making games for a system it doesn't make sense to say it doesn't compete in the same market as home consoles. All game systems compete with each other for our time and money. If I buy a game for my DS, that's money I didn't spend on my Wii, PS2, or PSP. It's not like people have separate play money for handheld games.

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 Remember Nintendo originally made board games, like Go!.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.

 

 Try mapping that argument out with a Venn diagram. You'll see how you can compare them and you can't compare them.