GameStop halts Wii U pre-orders due to 'overwhelming demand'

[Mummelmann]

phenom08 said:

Mummelmann said:

 

The Vita? The Vita is a flop, in my honest opinion. Handhelds have overstayed their welcome and will be fazed out of the market within 5-10 years. I don't hate Nintendo, I just don't see the vision and plan with the WiiU, the console has no focus and is all over the place and I cannot fathom why some people expect it to perform on par with the Wii.

As for my gaming preferences; I play the PC and that's pretty much it. I own all three consoles but I don't really use them, except my PS3 for movies, that is.

I understood everything but the "handhelds have overstayed their welcome" part. Fazed out in 5-10 years, yeah right lol. Maybe Sony's handheld division but definitely not Ninty's. Do you even play handhelds? If you did then you would actually know what you were talking about.

The handheld market will be overtaken and killed by/merge with tablet and phone gaming, its pretty obvious, we'll see a massive decline in Japan first and then US and Europe will follow shortly after. Its already happening, no handheld will ever sell anywhere near as many units as the DS did, it was the last great one. I don't need to like or play handheld to make observations about them and the market. Phone and tablet gaming is not a viable alternative to home consoles but certainly for handheld games.