zorg1000 said:
One thing a lot of people don't seem to realize is that the DS/PSP generation was vastly larger than any previous generation and 3DS/Vita is actually pretty similar to pre-DS/PSP levels. Also Gameboy and it's 118 million sales doesn't really tell the whole story as it was a 2 generation device that had shown huge declines and was about to be replaced before Pokémon came along and revitalized sales. |
Oh I realise that but the point is in the past when the gens were this big they didn't have mobile on the brink of taking over.
The same logic could be used for consoles but the core seems to actually be growing (ps3/360 < ps4/X1). Last gen was boosted by the Wii anomaly.
The PSP had a wii like effect on the dedicated handheld market in terms of greatly boosting it, the only difference is it was a device that captured core gamers where as the Wii captured casuals.
