| czecherychestnut said: Thank you, this tells the real message, being that the handheld market is collapsing with increased competition from mobile and tablets. Home consoles on the other hand have been steadily growing, and will likely continue to grow as the developing world continues to become more affluent with more disposable income. You prob won't see growth in the US, Western Europe and Japan, but in South America, Eastern Europe, China and East Asia, it'll continue to grow. For further trend points, Gen 3 sold 77 million home consoles and Gen 4 sold 100 million home consoles. |
Exactly. I couldn't have said it better myself. I would have added gen 3 and 4 but it was too much work 
There are tons of other ways to go into it and show how th econsole industry has steadily been growing, hell... the gaming uindustry in general cause even though dedicated handheld platforms are biting the dust, an increasing amount of industry revenue is coming from the smartphone/tablet sectors every year since 2007. Thats still money that gets factored into the "gaming industry" in general. Just means that now there are more players ompeting in th ehandheld space...aka apple and google.
