| EricHiggin said: You have to ask yourself as well, what does this mean for NiN's handheld user base though? What about those users that don't want a Switch but want something more along the lines of a 3DS? If NiN doesn't make another dedicated handheld, does that mean PS or MS can make a new handheld and take over that market? Would a Vita successor, who's sales comprised of previous Vita owners, 3DS owners, etc, be considered a success considering it wouldn't have any competition whatsoever because Switch is a hybrid console and not a handheld? If NiN does make another handheld to compete, does that now split their user base and no longer mean success? |
we can safely say that the majority of people bought a 3DS for the software and not the hardware so the change in form factor really should have little to no negative affect on sales. We can also see that pretty much the entire expanded audience of casual gamers who bought a DS did not return for 3DS so another huge decline because of mobile gaming impact is not likely to happen again.
Basically that means that pretty much everybody who bought a 3DS did so for the big games it recieved like Pokemon, Mario Kart, Smash Bros, Animal Crossing, 2D/3D Mario, Zelda, Monster Hunter, Yokai Watch, Dragon Quest, etc.
Based on this, we should be able to conclude that as long as Switch recieves mainline entries in most of the big 3DS franchises than a very large percentage of the userbase should return.
As for your question about a PS/XB handheld to steal the market from Nintendo, you are making up what if scenarios that we know are not going to happen so its pointless to even use that as an argument.
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