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Soundwave on 03 September 2016
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Captain_Yuri said:
Soundwave said:

Nintendo is adapting to how people use mobile devices ... the fact is that you're likely a very rare customer type ... not many people carry a 3DS in their pocket. The smartphone has taken that place and it's never going to give it up, so Nintendo is adjusting to market realities by offering a different form factor device for the portable market that can do more than a 3DS could ever dream of and thus having the potential to be more competetive in the market place of today. 

By entering the tablet market which is not only pretty competitve but also has been in decline?

Tablets still sell like 20x more annually than what the 3DS/Vita have been putting out. 

When I got an airport, I see literally *hundreds* of kids using mobile devices, and the ratio to 3DS/Vita is ugly. Uggggggggggggly. 

Like there's maybe one kid I see with a 3DS/Vita to like 20-25 playing on either a tablet or their mom/dad's smartphone. 

And I fly a lot for work, through Canada, US, all through Europe, and even Japan. I'm in about 20 different airports every year. This isn't even a contest anymore. On the insulated confines of a hardcore gaming board, things seem a lot more cozy, but when you get into the real world you really see how badly smart devices have made gaming portables their bitch. 

I remember on one flight I was sitting across from two elementary school age sisters who both had their own tablets, and I pulled out my 3DS to play and the girl shot me a look like "what ... the ... HELL is that thing?", lol. I just chuckled. Nintendo has no choice but to pivot IMO or become completely irrelevant anywhere outside of Japan. Kids *love* their tablets. 

All that would happen if Nintendo made "4DS" would be that it would sell even less than the 3DS, probably considerably less. At least a form factor more ammenable to what kids like to use today might have a shot.