thismeintiel said:
Nintendo had very little to do with it, if anything at all. The PSP is the most successful non-Nintendo handheld ever. It even outsold a Nintendo handheld, the GBA. Mobile gaming hurt the handheld market greatly. We went from a market that could house two very successful handhelds that sold a combined 235M+, to one that can only house one, with both selling less than 100M combined. It's why Nintendo put all their eggs in one basket to help ensure the Switch succeeds. Including making sure it is also a decent home console. Now, if the market could house two still, with Nintendo always selling 100M+, and Sony 60M-80M, do you honestly think Sony would have dropped out of the handheld biz? Of course not. Just like Nintendo isn't dropping out if the Switch sells 20M-40M less than the PS4. Even selling half would be acceptable to them, as that's still over 50M. Like I said, Nintendo had little to nothing to do with it. Mobile gaming eating away at the handheld market is what caused Sony to drop out. |
PSP is the most successful non Nintendo handheld because there is next to no handheld not made by Nintendo.Why?Because Nintendo is the best at it and barely no one can catch up to it.PSP was a good system and sold as such.Plus the DS sold the double of what the PSP did.
Saying that Nintendo had zero involvement with the Vita failing is ridiculous.Im not saying that mobile or Sony stupidity had nothing to do with it.They obviously did, and in no small part.But saying that "No, the competition had nothing with it because not even once in the history of manking the competition of one product has affected how well another product has performed" is obviosly nonsense.The 3DS was ONE of the reasons the Vita, and thus Sony handheld segment, failed, not the only one.There can be more than one reason for something to fail.
My (locked) thread about how difficulty should be a decision for the developers, not the gamers.
https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=241866&page=1
