Handheld market declines 16.5% in 2012

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Wander_ said:

KungKras said:

Wander_ said:

KungKras said:
And of course people are going to blame it on smarthphones, ignoring that the 3DS and Vita aren't exactly the strongest handheld offerings of all time...

if you we're a dad and your kid asked you for a gaming device and you had to choose between a 200$ handheld plus 50$ for every game or a 399$ IPHONE with free games and 1$ games plus it's a phone.

What would you choose?

i would choose an iphone without even thinking about it.

If you were a dad, and you kid asked you for a gaming device, and you had to choose between a SNES with $60+ games or a commodore 64 with much cheaper games (on disc or cassette or whatever) pus other functionalities what would you choose?

Thing is, kids don't say "daddy I want a game platform". They will say "daddy I want Pokemon".

Kids don't care about graphics all they wanna see is a little guy on screen moving and they will be happy. Am i right or am i right

Speaking as someone who played games when I was 4-5 I can tell you it does matter, heck even today my 6year old Nephew loves Luigi in mario Kart and played Luigis mansion because the character was the same he liked.... not every child can be amused by flashing light apps, nor does every parent want them to be.