Why Sony (Playstation) is not doomed

[Andrespetmonkey]

Jay520 said:

Andrespetmonkey said:

I would say that's definitely a big factor, but if the 3DS was still similarly priced and PSV had a few hardware sellers I bet it'd be on around double what it's sold now. Mobile is still eating a large chunk of the marketshare, and that chunk's getting larger, but the 3DS has shown there's still a huge market for dedicated handhelds.

True, but I think most would agree that Playstation handhelds and Nintendo* handhelds target largely different markets. Looking at current sales, and comparing them to sales from last generation, it wouldn't be a stretch to assume that the mobile market is damaging the Playstation handheld market a lot more than the Nintendo handheld market.

I would say there seems to be more cross-over between the ninty handheld and mobile audience. I don't know if I'd go as far as to say the majority, but a lot of DS owners could be classified as casual, and the mobile market is made up almost exclusively of casual gamers, whereas Sony handhelds target core gamers - a market that I don't think has shrunk, of if it has, definitely not to the extent that would cause Vita to do so badly.

I see the correlation, but I don't agree on the cause. The mobile market is getting bigger, but not big and encompassing enough to make Vita so irrelevant - it's the lack of compelling software doing that, mostly.