| quickrick said: sony gave up on the handheld market, because the market was shrinking, and there handheld really didn't have a market anymore, sony wouldn't have given up the handheld market if vita wasn't a huge failure, even nintendo which are the king of handhelds saw 50% decline in there handheld sales. having 2 platfroms that are successful=way more profit. imagine if nintendo made the ps4, they would be killing it, and would also make the switch as well, and porting nintedo games would be a breeze, and thirdparty support would be great. |
No Sony gave up because they got destroyed and couldn't support 2 platforms this was shown in both PSP and Vita, 3DS is going to finish it's LT with 80m or so sales when combined with the 14m Vita sold that's 94m units which shows that your talk of their being no market is untrue in every aspect. Nintendo saw a 50% decline following the DS which is the highest selling platform of all time under your logic the console market in the PS3 era didn't have a market anymore because the PS3 had the same decline from the PS2.
Having two platforms that drain resources doesn't lead to profits as the development of games, marketing and R&D of both negates any money made having one platform that hits multiple markets is far more viable and healthy for a business than two, it only worked before because developing on portables used to be dead cheap and require only a few people now it takes console level teams. You must be new to gaming because anyone who has been around for a while can tell you its not a platform like the PS4 that brings third party support its market approach and licensing type.
