| twintail said:
There are lot more differences that play into to make smartphones in their market differnet to PC in their market. Game acessebility, game price, hardware requirements etc there are many different elements that make PC and smartphones less similar than you would believe. 3DS clocking in at atound 70LTD is no in line with their other handhelds except the GBA. GB did 118 million. GBA did 81 million (sales were cut short from the quick release of the DS before GBA was 4 years old) . Your 70 LTD figure is not even what the PSP got, let alone the DS. Saying there is no decline is just sugar coating the situation as it exists for handhelds. |
Except you just admitted it's in line with what the GBA sold and the GBA didn't even have competition, the GBA itself had to be cut short why? Because the PSP was on the way it was going to run into some serious problems, 3DS sales being in line with the GBA when the's competition basically says the opposite of what you're trying to push, with Vita and smartphones 3DS has still manage to reach that range and in fact could still outsell the GBA with the year it has coming in 2016. All of this is not sugar coating it's flat out fact that the isn't a decline like some of you are trying to push as it would arguing the is a decline in the Playstation brand because PS3 didn't sell as much as PS2.
PSP is one of the highest selling platforms and the most successful non Nintendo handheld but it sold for all the wrong reasons like piracy and homebrew in the west this is why when those issues were addressed in Vita the latter just dropped off in the west while sells well in Japan.
