I was right. 3DS sold > shipped

[Mummelmann]

kowenicki said:

Mummelmann said:

kowenicki said:
I did say here years ago that dedicated handhelds were in serious trouble... I was ridiculed.

I think only Kitler53 agreed with me back then. Now its so obvious.

You're wrong here, I've been saying the same thing for years as well and gotten no end of abuse for it. People really didn't want to face such a possibility, it seemed, and somehow expected the console market to just keep on growing. When the Vita started tanking from the start, it should have been painfully obvious, unless they were thinking that the 3DS would sell 200 million ++ to avoid a contraction.

It was obvious with the rise of the smartphone and tablet and the myriad of social and browser games popping up that dedicated handhelds would take the first direct hit.

Apparently not.  As my and your experience here show.

Haha, true enough! I don't see how anyone could believe that we could comfortable fit so many different segments without anyone taking hits, there is no such thing as perpetual growth, especially in a market as splintered and partitioned as gaming today. Even though the total market revenue has just about doubled in about a decade; that doesn't mean that all parts will develop equally, I think that overall growth is what people are staring themselves blind at while the basic foundation of markets and economics fly more or less straight over their heads.