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tak13 on 22 June 2016
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ZhugeEX said:

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 etc...

Firstly, it won't be  less than 80m... Have they stopped selling? Even if you believe that 3ds won't reach 70m, PS sales should cover the deficit for the aggregate sales surpassing 80m...

Secondly, one thing is sure, you wouldn't be saying all that staff if 3ds was gba's successor and if  it has never been a psp!  If comparisons with market anomalies are valid and indicative for you, I don't care! You can concede how unfair they are, though, eh?

 

For me is more like market normalization not death! However, I admit that I could be wrong ( I'm not dogmatic) ! What about you? You perconceive failure?

Let's wait for 3ds successor and its perfomance to see which view is right!