kowenicki said:
JayWood2010 said:
Shinobi-san said:
Smartphones and tablets has still negatively impacted 3DS sales though, but the strengths of the 3DS has managed to mitigate the impact some what.
|
There really isnt much proof to that. The numbers between DS and 3DS has actually been very similar to one another throughout their first 35 months. I am not saying it will sell as much as NDS lifetime but there is no proof of any of this at this moment.
There really is no proof of mobile gaming effecting handheld gaming at all. PSP had similar issues PSV had later in its lifecycle because Sony stopped supporting it as well. Most of its numbers actually came early on when people had faith in sony for their handheld division. That changed overtime and part of that can be blamed on hacking and another part of it can be blamed on the lack of support. They relied a lot on third party with PSP.
|
I'm sorry... but I am going to have to totally disagree with you here.
There is plenty of proof.
This gen of handhelds will do circa 50% of the last gen in total.
Whats more.... it was very predictable and fairly obvious to many many posters here, which is why I dont understand why two large corporations didnt see it coming.
|
See I agree with you, but really sony themselves also really didn't put up an effort as well. So two reasons for decline exist. The 3DS still functions and exists and is having very decent sales, yet it won't rival the DS, but it will still have market to exist.
