Lots of 3DS games cancelled. A worrisome trend?

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Mr Khan said:

greenmedic88 said:

ameratsu said:
There is a lot more competition in the portable space today than when the DS was released. There are numerous smartphones, tablets, and other devices that are challenging the stranglehold that Nintendo once had on mobile gaming. Just showing up and expecting people to buy in will not work.

Couldn't agree more, but there will still be a lot of people in denial over where portable gaming is moving for the mass market.

Unless Nintendo adapts, it may find itself stuck with an increasingly shrinking niche market.

Which would be what? Sell out to the cell-phone companies?

Specialist handhelds will endure the way specialist consoles endure; games that make them worth buying over the PC that you definitely already have

That's a bad analogy.

The PC is becoming obsolete as a default computer; eventually replaced by tablet PCs for common every day uses. While it will always have its core usage, to include dedicated PC gaming, the simple facts are much of what PCs are used for by the average person can now be done without a desktop or even a laptop computer.

The continued success of dedicated consoles doesn't mean that dedicated portable gaming devices will continue to thrive in a market where "cell-phones" are essentially hand held computers with the same processing capabilities or better than dedicated portable gaming devices.

First party Nintendo games may be enough to keep them solvent as a business, but even as an NTDOY investor, I just don't see any upside to their portable strategy.