Why Is There Like Zero Attention About the 3DS Successor?

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curl-6 said:

spemanig said:

curl-6 said:

The way I see it, a lot of the traditional market for handhelds has been children, and nowadays they just play games on their Dad's iphone instead of on 3DS.

But yeah, only time will tell.

The way I see it, a lot of the people who bought the DS ans PSP were moms and casuals who weren't interested in handheld gaming at all, but were dazzled by Nintendogs and Brain age. Nowadays, they play games on their phones. I think those platforms were artificially inflated by the same audience that supported the Wii, and that there are still plenty of children with 3DSs. At least anecdotally I still see it.

Going back as far as the Gameboy though, children have always been a massive element of the portable userbase, and these days I see kids playing on phones all the time, but rarely ever on dedicated portable.

By hijacking the kids, mobile has gutted the portable market's audience.

 

Yeah it's ugly out there. 

Even in Japan, and I travelled pretty much exclusively on the subway for 1-2 hours every day for a good 10 days in Tokyo ... it's actually kinda eerie, what you'll see if the subway is very quiet, but you look to your left and it's like a row of 50 people just staring down at their phone. Look to your right and it's the same thing, lol.