hunter_alien said:
Shadow1980 said:
Why does everyone insist on comparing this generation to last generation, as if last generation was anything remotely close to normal? The DS had abnormally huge sales. At its peak its baseline sales were well in excess of any other dedicated gaming platform, even the PS2, and it sold more in six years than the original Game Boy did in twelve. The PSP was the first non-Nintendo handheld to be a commercial success; the next best-selling non-Nintendo handheld was the Game Gear, which sold a paltry 11 million units worldwide, and every other runner up sold far, far less than that. Between the two of them the DS and PSP sold some 236 million units, more than all other preceding handhelds combined. Looking at the actual sales data I fail to see how someone can honestly say the last generation of handhelds should be held up as some kind of standard.
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Exactly. PLus, IMO the maximum damage that could have been done from the mobile space it was done. Pretty much everyone who could be a potential handheld buyer probably own at least one smartphone and maybe even a tablet. It cannot get more overburdened the it is now. On the other hand, if a dedicated portable has plenty of AAA support from developers and it has a solid hardware foundation, people will flock to it.
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And things level off. Why does it have to be one way or the other? Why can't both exsist. If enough of both sides work. They work. Their's no reason to murder one.
