Nintendo and Sony have to bring out Handheld/Phone hybrids in 2017.

[KBG29]

foxtail said:

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.

I look at it in terms of overall mobile marketshare, not just the handheld sector. I get the data that you presented though, and it is a very interesting reperesintation.

In the big picture though, Sony went from 160 million PS2's to ~85 million PS3's, Nintendo went from 155 million DS's to ~60 million 3DS/New 3DS. Had 3DS offered calling and texting, that market would have went from 155 to 200M+, instead of plumiting to ~60M. With DS Nintendo delivered the mobile platrom people needed at the time. When 3DS and Vita came around, calling and texting where maditory for a mobile devices, and once they didn't have that basic feature, the market had no reason to adopt the platforms.