Shuhei Yoshida: Phones Have Hurt Handheld Market “Quite Badly”

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KylieDog said:

Thing when looking at 3DS compared to DS is that the DS sold what it did in addition to the PSP selling well, so the fact the 3DS is not matching the DS and the PSP sales just went nowhere, Yoshida is right when he says the handheld market has been hurt.

People should be comparing DS+PSP sales combined versus 3DS+Vita sales combined.

This is just an excuse. If Sony supported the PSV as Nintendo does the 3DS, PSV sales wouldn´t be as abysmal as they are. Instead they shut down three 1st party studios that worked on PSV games early this year and raised the whight flag, while Nintendo actually has a healthy market.