| hunter_alien said: Because professional cameras went extinct after the mobile phone boom? Please, untill there are people willing to make money on a smaller install base, dedicated handhelds will exist. |
Well actually sales of the mid-size/pocket camera have basically gone down the toliet. The market for cameras now is high-end DSLRs for adults who want really high quality photos.
But the handheld gaming market isn't quite like that, for starters, the handheld gaming market isn't mostly adults, it's largely kids, and kids need to go through mommy/daddy to get a handheld. The "high enthusiast" market for portable gaming isn't that strong, most older gamers don't bother with portable gaming at all, they want their 50-inch screen + Madden/COD/etc. If they get the itch to pass some time in between work/school/friends, a few minutes of Candy Crush gets the job done and adults hate having to carry around more devices than they have to.
To be honest too I think we just assume because we're core gamers that kids must like what we like ... a lot of kids genuinely prefer tablet/phone gaming. They have access to a huge variety of games, once they get bored of one, they can download another, the touch interface is extremely intuitive to them, and if they want to play a "real" game ... that's what their XBox/Playstation/Wii sitting at home is for.
