Cliff Bleszinski: Industry turmoil worst since '80s crash

[leatherhat]

zero129 said:

leatherhat said:

If you really want to ignore the reality of phones and tablets feel free. Poor ds sales (you might want to take a look outside of Japan before you say they are good) and abysmal vita sales are just the beginning.  Pokemon and mario can only keep a dedicated game platform afloat against cheaper (with far cheaper games),more powerful and more versatile phones for so long. 

Ok well if you want to ignore the state the world econemy is in at the momment feel free. But please do explain how selling 29 million units in like 2 years doing bad? please id love you to explain this to me. Just cos the PSVita is doing bad doesnt mean the handheld market is failing.

You seem like someone who just wishs the 3Ds was doing bad . I wonder if the PSV was at 29 million units would you still feel the same way??.

Its certainly fine enough for people to buy a ton of tablets and phones. Phones you could argue are a necessity, tablets sure as shoot aren't. As for 3ds sales, it couldn't break 150k in a 5 week npd. That's bad, no way to spin that. Its doing as bad in Europe. Japan is the only reason 3ds hasn't been an abject failure of a system. And it did worse in the west in 2012 than 2011 when it spent a lot of its time at 250 bucks.