Is it safe to say that Nintendo will never lose a handheld battle?

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Dr.Henry_Killinger said:

BasilZero said:
No chance.

Sony's lost the ball as soon as they dropped it with the Vita's issues such as the memory card prices and the lack of first party support.

I cant see any gaming specialized competitor against Nintendo's handheld family. The only one that came close was PSP and even that was behind the NDS' sheer amount of units sold.

iOS and android will eventually overtake as the main platform for handheld platform devs but as long as the mobile OS versions keep messing up games on those two mobile platforms with their updates - mobile gaming in general is gonna look bad unless you are a casual gamer who wants to get into those F2P games.

PSP wasn't close, that gen was inflated. And bolstered by hacks/piracy, that created the memory cards that killed the Vita. 1st party games never would've matter Sony is not NIntendo.

 

Another thing that people seem to forget is that a huge selling point of PSP was that it was by far the best portable multimedia device for its time, u could play games, watch movies, listen to music, browse the Internet which is something that no other portable device could do well until smartphones started to become popular.