February 2015 NPD Thread! 3DS: 395k, PS4: 342k, XBO: 276k, WiiU: 96k

[Kerotan]

MDMAlliance said:

Kerotan said:

You misunderstood what I meant regarding the ps4. Of course it could have been better but I highly doubt there will be a NPS4 that has certain games exclusive to just it.  Seems like they did that to increase the number of rebuys.  

That's because it doesn't really work for home consoles, as the past has shown us.   Handhelds are a little different, since they are cheaper than home consoles, and they tend to experience more abuse due to the fact that the entire system gets handled physically much more than home consoles do.  It's only natural that people are more inclined to replacing technology that physically gets used more than one that sits around (PC vs smart phone/laptop/tablet).  

Plus, the N3DS only has one exclusive announced for it and it's not even out yet... and the exclusive is a port.  The N3DS also runs the same OS as the regular 3DS, and is essentially the same architecture, except with several beefed up parts.

i guess the one thing we can take from this is the number of unique owners of handhelds is a lot less than consoles. It would also explain why handhelds sell way less softare than home consoles.