curl-6 said:
Nintyfan90 said:
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.
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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.
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Funny how none of that works for Japan, I wonder why. So why have home consoles suffered such a decline in Japan? Your answer is the same in the west for handhelds, lack of support. Your smartphone cant play anything relevant the 3DS can, yet the PS4 and 3DS will share a very significant multiplat soon lol. Maybe because they are more similar to each other than the Iphone will be to 3DS ever.
