Nintendo may exit handhelds in 10 years due to disruption

[famousringo]

Squilliam said:

noname2200 said:

Squilliam said:

They can't get mass appeal games? How many Nintendo handheld games have exceeded 50M sales?

Wait...how many cell phone games have managed this? o_O

Just the one that I know of thus far, however it ought to be expected that as the Smartphone market is growing substantially that another 2 or 3 will follow over the next couple of years.

The game is Angry Birds by the way.

Sorry, my mind is fizzled as I got talked into smoking weed last night, I split three joints between the two of us of some very strong stuff and im not a regular weed smoker by any means.

I'm pretty sure Rovio's touted 50 million downloads include a whole lot of free iOS demos that they don't see revenue for. I just don't believe that they've been on Android long enough to get tens of millions of downloads, and the Ovi Store doesn't see that much action.

I'm sure they're well over 20 million revenue-generating downloads, maybe even over 30 million, and they're still going like gangbusters. But they're also spreading to PCs and consoles, so the numbers are about to stop being smartphone exclusive.

@noname

12 million iOS copies of Angry Birds are paid, plus an unknown number of Ovi downloads.