Is NX even necessary?

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Nintyfan90 said:

curl-6 said:

There's only so much Nintendo and Sony could do in the face of the mobile tide. Ninty may have bungled the launch, but they pulled out every big gun with the 3DS; a big price cut, Pokemon, 2D and 3D Mario, a portable Smash Bros, exclusive Monster Hunter, new models, and in spite of all that, it's still not going to reach even GBA/PSP sales.

Every Big Gun? Good lord you are trying so hard. The Call of Duty franchise on Ps4 alone will sell more than all of what you mentioned combined. Thats the kind of stuff im talking about, what you call the big guns just plain isnt enough. Pokemon is the only significant exclusive you named and its not what it use to be. When Mario and Pokemon get help, that handheld plat sells fine(see DS). Pokemon is no longer enough, it has declined enough to not be able to save Nintys handheld division alone. You just fed even further into my point, handhelds simply dont have enough outside of Japan. Notice how in Japan the 3DS is doing fine because it gets the 3rd party support that is similar to the CoDS and GTAs of Japan. Japan is proof that a handheld wouldnt be seen as something that could be replaced by a smartphone if it had enough differiating(damn i cant spell)ip. Smartphones replace the PS4 and WiiU in japan because they dont have the support that could establish them.

Nothing can save handhelds. Their place in the market has been supplanted, it's really as simple as that. People are less and less willing to pay hundreds of dollars for another device just to play games on the bus when they can do the same thing with the smartphone they already own. Mobile eliminates the need for a dedicated portable, and the sharp decline in portable sales reflects this.