So who WON the Black Friday Week????

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ninetailschris said:

Dark_Feanor said:

superhippy420 said:
I guess the bottom line is that all 3 companies made some serious dough. The Nintendo doom really needs to stop because its pretty clear that they still pull some serious weight in the industry. 2014 is going to be a freaking war on VGchartz.

The doom is not for Nintendo as a whole, but for Nintendo home console.

And as as good the 3DS numbers appear to be they are just a shadow if you look at smartphones and tablets sells.

And ps4 and Xbox one are destroying iPhones right?

So, I think the problem is that you're comparing sales of a dedicated handheld game system to sales of ubiquitous devices.  The comparison being drawn only makes sense if you assume that each smartphone and tablet sale is for the purpose of playing games, which of course isn't true.  Whatsoever.  Conversely, no one is buying a 3DS to not play games.  I will grant you there is some overlap, particularly with casual gamers, but the vast majority of them would never buy a dedicated system to begin with.  You have to remember that the DS install base was only 150 million.  That's certainly indicitive of some mass market penetration, but nowhere near the level of the average person who uses a phone and so therefore is going to eventually buy or upgrade to a smartphone.