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Normchacho on 09 December 2016
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Pyro as Bill said:
Normchacho said:
How can you say the handheld market isn't in decline? The 3DS is going end up at maybe 75 million units, Nintendo is about to launch a Mario game on mobile, and we've heard absolutely nothing about a true successor to the 3DS...

 

NobleTeam360 said:
It has declined, spin it how you like though.

I didn't say it hadn't declined.

Obviously hh sales are down from last gen but if the DS is ignored (as an anomaly) then combined hh sales/software are going to be higher than the GBA.

Even if you ignore DS handhelds are in decline. The GBA was replaced after 3 and a half years while the 3DS has been the only Nintendo handheld since early 2011. 

But more imporantly, handhelds are going to continue to decline. Nintendo is going to start focusing more and more on the mobile market and that's going to really hurt handheld sales. If Nintendo even bothers to make another dedicated handheld.



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