| mrstickball said: @Vagabond - Your analysis of the Smartphone/Handheld war is exactly why I'm always rushing in and putting out there that NGP/3DS are in hot water. Having been a DS owner and lower-end Android owner, I find it impossible to go back to wanting to buy a new 3DS or more DS games, given that in a year or two, I will have pretty much any type of game I want at a fraction of the price. My entire Android library cost me about $20, and I've probably put 250 hours into it (Zenonia, Game Dev Story, SNESoid, GENSoid, and Robo Tower Defense). When you have a value proposition like that, its hard to imagine why people wouldn't start considering the smartphone as a primary game device. |
When Apple released the App Store in 2008, I thought it was a game-changer. It was impossible to deny how awesome it was (I bought my iPhone in late 2007, I think). By 2009, the iPhone was all I carried around. The DS received occasional play but the PSP was in a closet, never (literally, I mean never) to emerge again.
Flash forward to 2011. I now own a 4.3" HTC Inspire and I cannot see myself buying another handheld gaming device again. I just won't play it.
A lot of people around here don't want to see their precious handhelds diminish in any way but the writing is written in story-high lettering on the wall. Handhelds won't disappear but we'll never see another Nintendo DS success story again. The ship has sailed.
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