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Ryng on 23 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, 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. 

Looking at the whole Market... That's why people try to Say "This generation is doing good" ans they remove The Nintendo Wii from The comparation?

And even if we remove The Wii, PS3 and 360 have sold something between 170-180 Million. You predict >150 Million for This gen INCLUDING Wii U.

But since we should see the whole Market, we Are looking for a most likely ~45% drop. That's not huge?

Surely is not as bad as a ~65% drop, but You understand what's The Point here?

Not only we will See a massive decline from gen 7, but talking about gen 6, The only PS2 will most likely end with More than what PS4, XBO, and Wii U will Sell COMBINED.

Should not this be very worried?

 

But You many time don't talk about only The whole Market... You many Times Said 3DS is Death.

So well, now there Are not excuse, "PSVita is Death" is totally comprensible cause The 0 support from Sony, and The terrible Sales.

But saying 3DS is Death... It's a 6 years old console, and looks like is also up YOY this quarter in shipments ( confirmed by Nintendo >60m annunced ).

It's selling More than The Xbox one, a console which only has 3 years of Sales. You don't considering This condole Death. So why 3DS is?

You see, there is not much sense here. I can understand all.

 

I can understand if you considering 3DS sales disappoint... I understand if you are worry for the handhelds market... I understand it did less than expect... But saying is "DEATH"?

 

Even you know this is wrong.

 

P.S

And last thing. 3DS did not bad for some years? What means "not bad"?

3DS was selling almost 15 million the firsts years. This is PS4 2014 levels. I would say this is a bit better than a simple "not bad", you don't think so?