| KBG29 said:
Nintendo is nowhere near successful with there handheld. 60 million is an absolute disaster, it is a bigger fall in marketshare than PS2 to PS3. |
Market share is just a percentage, and has to do more with direct competition than health of the market. And though a Market share comparison doesn't address the contracting handheld market, it isn't a bigger fall than PS2 to PS3 in terms of market share.
The PS2 to the PS3 had a 46% drop in home console market share.
That is one of the largest gen to gen drops of console market share in history, I think only Atari had a bigger drop in market share from one gen to the next gen.
PS2 gen the market was around ----- 200M (77% PS2)
Wii gen the market was around ------ 270M (31% PS3)
DS gen the HH market was around ----- 230M (65% DS)
3DS gen the HH market is around ----- 75M (80% 3DS)
The 3DS is also at levels lower in terms of unit sales than the GBA right now.
