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kitler53 on 09 January 2013
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KHlover said:
kitler53 said:
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i disagree.  while there are many niche markets that can do well enough video games aren't one of them.  there is a delicate ecosystem between the number of consumers, the number of developers, the number of games, and the number of game sales.  too few of any and the ecosystem collapses.  there will be no place for dedicated handheld gaming devices in the future.

I'm pretty sure there will be. It may become smaller, but it won't vanish. I'd really like not to mention Nintendo in this post, but there's no way around it: They have established a userbase of I'd say around 30-50Mil DEDICATED (of course I can only guess this number, but even the GBA as their weakest selling handheld sold 80Mil) buyers of their handhelds and 2x as much POTENTIAL buyers. As long as Nintendo makes profit off handhelds the market won't die. Simple as that.

past performance does not guarentee future success. 

3DS already had 1 emergency price cut.  3DSs second calendar year barelly was up YoY despite have a 3 extra months on the market.  the games library is significantly smaller then the kind of support the DS had.  Games cost between 4 to infinatly times more than the games on competitive devices. 

..i don't care how good pokemon or mario is.  that market can and likely will disappear.  3DS will survive.  but if nintendo (and everyone else for that matter) don't adapt to the changing market then they'll be about as relavent as a stage coach repair shop after the introduction of cars.