Is the dedicated handheld market really dying or simply returning to normal?

[zorg1000]

Soundwave said:

zorg1000 said:

Yes but ur acting like a single generation of decline means that it will inevitably continue to decline which may not be the case.

The indicators right now are not good though. The 3DS keeps declining year over year no matter what Nintendo throws at it ... Pokemon, Animal Crossing, model revisions, 2D Mario, 3D Mario, Mario Kart, etc. etc. etc. 

I think this basically is the new baseline for Nintendo handhelds ... 6-11 mill handhelds/year. 

How are you coming up with 6-10 million being the baseline when 3DS had 3 consecutive years of shipments at or around 13 million?

FY 2012-13.53 million

FY 2013-13.95 million

FY 2014-12.24 million