500 million console Sony !

[Soundwave]

RolStoppable said:

Soundwave said:

If you're referring to the Vita, which technically isn't a console, but whatever, I'd say the smartphone killed that. Nintendo took huge losses too (154 m DS owners down to 67-70m 3DS owners is an even bigger loss in raw consumer base than Wii to Wii U). 

Smartphone/tablets are like an explosion, Sony was the poor chap who was standing right next to the explosion and got oblierated almost instantly, Nintendo was a bit further away but still suffered severe burns and injuries from it but lived. 

Head to head though the numbers are the numbers even with the Vita factored in, overall Sony has more than held it's own as a whole when pitted against Nintendo, outselling them by over 100 million units in head to head competetion, even if we don't count a lot of PS4 sales that are to come. 

When Nintendo achieves the ultimate defeat, you turn around and attribute this event to someone other than Nintendo. Riiiight... Nintendo got lucky that they didn't get obliterated too.

Ignoring smartphones/tablets as a factor simply inane by this point. Anyone denying that didn't have an absolute monumental impact on the portable market is out to lunch, it's like saying Netflix didn't have any impact on Blockbuster Video. I mean they even made Nintendo bend over backwards and support a non-Nintendo plaform with actual in-house games for the first time in like 30 years. It's also killed off other industries too, like the point & click camera ... virtually extinct now. I'm old enough to remember just 10 years ago when people used to actually bring those cameras to the nightclub to take photos, smartphones killed all that and basically created the selfie craze.

Sony's portable audience was generally that teenager crowd and they pushed the PSP/Vita as kinda the do everything multimedia device ... which was neat in 2004. However it's pretty easy to see why an average 13-21 year old would look at a Vita by 2014 and say "fuck that, I got an iPhone".