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Scisca said:

zorg1000 said:

It is widely accepted that Nintendo made many mistakes with 3DS that helped assist in the decline of dedicated gaming handhelds, it's not outside the realm of possibility that they can make a handheld that doesn't suffer from so many mistakes and adapts to the changing market allowing them to retain or even grow their userbase.

There is still certainly a market for a Nintendo handheld, 3DS will have sold 65 million or so when all is said and done with their 1st party software still selling great numbers, Nintendo would be retarded not to release another handheld.

Cool and all, but after all the 3DS mistakes, they made the Wii U...

And remember, 65 mil for 3DS comes after 150 mil for DS. Same story for PSP into Vita. That's how fast this market is dying. Sony is already out, if Nintendo released another regular handheld, it'd end up somewhere between Vita and 3DS, who knows if not closer to the Vita in sales. That's why they talk about this Fusion idea. That's why they made the partnership with DeNA. There is no saving mass market dedicated handhelds, they will be killed by smart devices any year now. It's a pity, cause I love handhelds and don't play games on my smartphone at all, but what can you do. This behemoth is too much, sadly. A tablet + Dual Shock is already the ultimate portable experience and it will remain this way. There is a huge market for Nintendo games, but not for dedicated portable hardware.

Wii U was already far, far into development when 3DS released, actually being formally revealed about 3 months later so it's not like they could just scrap Wii U at that point and start over.

Yep and the 230+ million for DS/PSP came after the ~80 million for GBA/competitors which came after the ~80 million for GBC/competitors which came after the ~80 million for GB/competitors so maybe, just maybe the DS/PSP generation was an anomaly and this regression is the mobile market causing the handheld market to return to its previous baseline. Of course it's possible the decline will continue but I'm not going to blindly jump on the "handhelds are dying!!!!" bandwagon that so many others are.