Will Nintendo have their handheld throne contested again? Or is Vita the last..

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Ppl bringing smartphones into the discussion is relevant but beside the point. If we speak of DEDICATED gaming handheld, no one will never try to even enter competition with Nintendo. Sony will probably not try again after the vita.

Offcaurse smartphones are competition, and offcaurse they will keep becoming a bigger threat with time. But they are not dedicated game handheld. Ppl dont buy Ipads or Iphones to play games, they buy it to take pictures, send texts, phone, and thousands of other apps. Games or no games, ppl will buy these devices, the fact that they have games is only a coincidence that leads ppl to rethink their need to buy a 3DS. But if they had no games, the worldwide sales for these devices will probably be the same.

If Nintendo can someday no longer profit from the handheld market, it will probably be because of smartphones. But not because that a competitor dethroned Nintendo, but because smartphones changed the market as a whole.

It's hard to explain what I try to say but, Nintendo is ''competing'' with smartphones, but smartphones are not competing with Nintendo. Nor Samsung or Apple are thinking ''what can we do to beat Nintendo?'' when they are designing a new phone. But Nintendo, they can't convince ppl to buy their consoles over smartphones but they have to convince ppl that it's worth buying a 3DS alongside or despite their smartphones.