My comments on handheld gaming concern the whole market.
When you look at the handheld market as a whole its clear that it's no longer relevant anymore. PS Vita isn't worth even mentioning and 3DS performance over the last couple of years has been very weak.
I see a lot of people looking purely at one device or comparing one device to another single device. As I mentioned above, you need to look at the whole market.
An install base of 240m handheld consoles last gen dropping to less than 80 million with an ever sharper decline in software sales is not healthy at all. Especially when you consider that the decline has been accelerating rapidly in the last few years.
People can look at hardware sales for a single device all they want, but there is so much more to consider, especially when it comes to overll hardware & software sales, attach rates, average spend per user, number of active gamers, number of active publishers & games etc...
Personally I'd take a handheld over a mobile device any day. I'm not a huge fan of mobile gaming. But that doesn't mean I'm blind to the current state of handhelds in the market.
