If DS was a fluke where's the "inevitable" handheld decline?

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Faelco said:

tak13 said:

Oh...
People here conclude that pyro says that there is no decline while what he means is that market is declining to normality, not declining to death...

He simply deems 7th gen as an anomaly and for obvious reasons ( compare 6th gen to 7th ) I concur with his aspect!

 

Did tablets kill pc eventually...? Hmmm, no the market declineδ a lot till to stabilize to a still viable size. ;)

Except that "normality" doesn't exist in tech markets and trends like consoles. A market like this will grow or decline but won't stay "normal", it's not sustainable. The usual way to read a graph like this is : "The market grew, attained its peak, and is now declining". And that's the moment when the actors of the industry have to think about something else, either launch something new to help the market grow again, or bet on another growing market. That's why Nintendo, Sony, Square Enix and a lot of other developers are now going to mobile gaming, and even Nintendo is mixing handheld and home consoles.

 

I really liked this post, as it points out why we have console generations in the first place.