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

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spemanig said:

curl-6 said:

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.

I don't think mobile is hijacking anything, though. There are over a billion mobile phones on the market now. You see more kids with mobile phones because there are more mobile phones out there than there have ever been any handheld system, just by the nature of them being necessities. When I was a camp counselor last year, I saw tons of kids with 3DSs. If it hijacked anyone, it's the casual audience that adopted the DS ans PSP brands, which were not children.

But here's the thing though; say you're a parent. Why spend $200 on a portable and $40 per game for your kid when you can just hand them your phone and let a free or 99c app entertain them?