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

[Lawlight]

tbone51 said:

Lawlight said:

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

We will have to wait and see how the 3DS does this year. This should be it's biggest year in terms of sales. It'll end up at 80M tops.