Portable console gaming is dead

[tolu619]

I've been thinking of what Nintendo could do about this situation and I proposed a similar model to the iOS devices, where we have a phone and a non-phone version of the same portable console. Please direct all comments, constructive criticisms or on my idea to this thread http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=195671
@OP, I put a link to your thread in the OP of mine, since some of the things you said pushed me to finally make a thread on this idea I've had in my head for a while. I doubt that merely revamping the eShop would make a big difference because not many kids nowadays even know what a 3DS is. Before they get old enough to want a 3DS, they start playing games and using educational apps on their parent's tablets. From around age 2. By age 5 or 6, the tablet satisfies their gaming needs. It'll take much more to convince a parent to get a portable dedicated gaming machine, or to get a kid interested enough that he begs his parents for it.