oniyide said:
hunter_alien said:
oniyide said:
hunter_alien said:
oniyide said:
OT lets be real handheld are becoming less important in the west. Doesnt help that nothing of significance has released here, doesnt mean you cant still enjoy it. I know i am. |
I think that is kind-off a two sided issue. If there would be quality western game support for them, I doubt that handhelds wouldent sell. Handhelds where way to reliant on Japanese software for the last decade, and untill some massive western, handheld IPs come around, I doubt the sittuation will change. Never the less, I doubt that they wil ceese to exist. They will only have lower sales, but probably higher sw attach rates.
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Last decade? Handhelds have ALWAYS been reliant on Japanese software. Fact is Western devs never really gave a damn long before smartphones and tablets were a thing. If western devs didnt really care when Handhelds were at there peak they surely will not care now. They wont go away, Japan alone will keep them afloat since they seem to be only region to really care. But i wouldnt be surprised in the future they dont leave Japan
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They cared, they just trew licensed games on them, that sold like hotcakes. Ubisoft considered the DS their main platform for almost half a decade. They where the smartphones of the previous generation. They where reliable from a financial point of view because software sales used to be solid and development cost used to be low. Now software sales are good (in a best case scenario) and dev costs blew out of proportion.
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DS was their main platform? according to who? what games did they put on the DS that was noticable? Even if that were true that is one publisher out of the few. DS just had such a large install base that everybody was putting stuff on them. 3ds isnt doing as well and wont have it as big. Hell what western published games did really well on DS? The only thing that comes to mind is stuff like Cooking Mama but the days of those selling well on dedicated handhelds are long gone and they arent coming back.
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According to their financial statements? Remember the "Imagine" craze? They made massive profits off it, regardles of the software quality. And shovelware used to push systems, buyt it fails so these days, because they pretty much only appear on smart devices.
Just something to chew on:
http://www.gonintendo.com/s/31598-ubisoft-reports-2007-08-third-quarter-sales-casual-game-success-more-casual-titles-coming
ANd then came the drop:
http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/DS/Ubisoft+news/news.asp?c=14619
Western developers did support handhelds, they just simply moved on to the new gold craze, smart devices.
