The success of the 3DS has vindicated Gunpei Yokoi and the Virtual Boy

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PortisheadBiscuit said:

Mandalore76 said:

A fair amount of the 153 million people who bought a DS prefer those "limited" games that can be found in the mobile market.  Unless the Nintendo Switch sells over 150 million units, the mobile market did take that chunk of people away from handheld, and they aren't coming back.

Excellent point! The Brain Age, Nintendogs, and Cooking Mama type games are what catapulted the DS to that insanely high lifetime sales figure. Sure the Pokemons, Marios, etc; assisted in that but a huge chunk of DS core demo moved on to Angry Birds, Candy Crush, Pet Rescue, Bakery Story etc; 

Which is why I always feel it's a little unfair to compare the DS and 3DS sales figures. 3DS sales figures arent too far off GBA and hasn't had the luxury of more than a decade on the market with a phenomenon (Pokemon) occur deep into its life cycle to help catapult sales like the GB. 

The DS was once in a lifetime console for Nintendo I believe. It was ahead of his time, popularized touch screen gaming had a lot of innovative and simple games that are now on  mobile.3DS is going to end with a honourable score , competing with smartphone and much better but much more expansive games. I do hope Nintendo continue to support the 3DS 1 or 2 more years until they release a successor. There are still a market for pur handheld.

The 3D did not help the 3DS, let's be honest. And Gunpei Yokoi did not leave because of the Virtual boy failure.