| Pemalite said: The angle of argument that the poster I was replying towards was that he believes that Home Console and Mobile user bases would be "combined" with the NX. |
They're not the same concept and I don't think that's the context of his argument either, the add ons were separate devices that came out years after launch unlike the concept here where one device houses the entire library, those are two vastly different concepts as one still maintains two different userbases while the other creates one large userbase for everything.
By the time the add ons came out the majority of people if not all would have had both a SNES/GB or GC/GBA regardless if we were to look at the point for arguments sake, with the rumoured concept anyone from either fanbase would have the one device rather than buying two devices so the userbases would be combined. Your argument is equivalent to someone saying disc based consoles aren't viable because the add ons on the Mega Drive didn't take off or the analogy I highlighted earliar with multiplayer. All this is before we go into detail of differences in the market now and back then.
The PSP and PS2 were bigger platforms than the Vita and PS4 so I don't get your point on that one. The 3DS actually had competition as well unlike the GBA and has still sold around 60m and could finish it's life at around 70m.
