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

[tbone51]

Lawlight said:

tbone51 said:

Lawlight said:

KingdomHeartsFan said:

fatslob-:O said:
Could that have being anymore obvious considering that the vita isn't needed anymore and so is the 3DS to a lesser extent.

It doesn't matter how big mobile gaming gets, Nintendo will always have secessful handhelds.

If mobile phones managed to half how many Nintendo handhelds get sold from generation to the next, what do you think will happen in the next one?

just face it, nintendo not going out, DS was a huge Success. Half of its sales (75mil-80mil) is very successful, so nothing wrong and beside you think 3DS is gonna sell that? no way it'll end with 95mil-115mil lifetime. Nintendo isnt leaving hanndheld wen they always done so well. 3DS is proof there is still a market for handhelds

Of course they're not going out. But they're on the path to irrelevancy. 95M-115M? No way the 3DS maintains it's current yearly sales level for another 5 to 6 years.

And as I said, Nintendo isn't going to leave the handheld market because that's all they have.

well i dont think 2016-2018 will have these sales as well, maybe 9mil-10mil a year but these next 3 years (2013-2015) we can expect 13mil+, especially this year will be very high with i believe a minimum of 16mil units. But anyway i dont think nintendo going anywhere even though smartphones/etc is hurting business. AC/Pokemon/MH can always saved the market alone as well with a new mario platformer/MK/etc! Its funny though looking back 2-3 years ago i dont think many analyst/etc would of believed nintendo doing well, even vita will do good from now on i believe (not close to 3ds and vita tv doesn't count as handheld). i think its funny wen people think 3ds is screwed cuz its not on DS levels. Thats like A team being undefeated a year then next year loses 3 games but are still 1st! if you get me lol