Is NX even necessary?

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Nintyfan90 said:

curl-6 said:

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.

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. 

Support is a symptom, not a cause. Cultural factors play a strong role here; in Japan, high population density, long hours, and long commutes make portables more appealing than consoles, this has been true for some time now. Portables have more strongly entrenched roots there to resist the erosion of their base, but even so 3DS and Vita are in decline from their predecessors. Ultimately, Japan alone is not enough to shore up a global industry in decay.