Goodnightmoon said:
Everyone knows it sold because the 3D was super popular... |
Well, it did sell 60% less than the previous Nintendo handheld console, and without even an opponent like the PSP... So maybe the Nintendo games didn't sell that much after all (or at least they sold a lot less than a few years ago). There is still a market for handheld consoles and games, and overall right now the 3DS is almost the only serious console on this market. We can't say that Nintendo games didn't sell 3DS at all, but it would be also blind to say that they were huge system sellers when the sales crashed even without competition...
The total handheld market went from 230+ millions to 75 millions in just one gen.... Mixing a heavily declining handheld market with a "currently heavily losing on the home market" console is a bold move, and can go either way: help both markets or bury them. It depends on if we have a console with the power and online of a home console with the price, third party support and ergonomics of an handheld one, or if we get a console with the power and online of an handheld and the price, third party support and ergonomics of a home one...
