i could say the same otherwise to the whole smartphone against handheld discussion. people who did never play videogames have smartphones and try out some games for free on android like angy bird (lol @350m sales, who bought this game?) and after some years they wish to play some more complicated games and they will buy a handheld. for example the wife of my brother never cared about gaming, i said her play some angry birds and blablabla on your smartphone and she bought a 3ds now because she understands now why gaming is fun.
analysts never talk about that. they always say "noone needs handhelds anymore, we have smartphones"
but they forget that most hadcore gamers won't stop buying handhelds and people who never had a handheld aren't a loss for the handheld industry when they start playing on the smartphone. but i bet some of them would have never bought a handheld but after playing some free games with simple controlls they will understand why there are so many people who love to play videogames and they will buy a handheld just bcause of the smartphone experience. like my brother's wife did.
maybe the time will come a company like ea will make 80% of the money on smartphones and only 20% on handhelds but that won't stop them releasing games for handhelds as long as they make profit with that. why should they stop it? sure it would be only a small segment then but why should they care? profit is profit they won't throw the proft away just because it's only a small part of the whole.
