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Wyrdness on 29 March 2018
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quickrick said:
Wyrdness said:

The market didn't shrink it went back to normal because DS like PS2 is an anomaly the device sold outside of gaming and even helped influence the iPhone while PSP had a similar case in how it sold with it being used as a portable emulator and homebrew device, compare the units moved to the GBA era where 80m units were sold and the GB era were 118m units you'll notice that the DS/PSP era is the odd one out as the the 3DS/Vita era's expected 94m units falls in line with every other portable era showing a consistency and even growth outside of the anomaly.

Read what you just said here you're talking about porting why are people going to buy 2 devices that share ports across them this highlights your lack of understanding in business the two devices sold because they had their own versions of exclusive franchises that's how the market works so each device wouldn't use porting it would require ground up development of exclusives this would mean 2 Zeldas, 2 3D Marios, 2 Metroids, 2 Animal Crossings etc... That's a massive resource drain to the point where one platform ended up suffering as development for portables is now the same as it is for consoles this is why Sony didn't even support PSP and that was during the era before your argued shrink, under this logic it's better to just have one device for both markets if you're going to have the same game for both that way you have one development cost, one manufacturing cost for a platform, singular marketing etc... They combined both because they can retain both markets with a single platform and user base while managing resources more efficiently.

Umm how was ps2 an anomaly? all 3 consoles combined  sold almost 200 million? the next gen right after ps4/360 sold around 180 million, and if nintendo had a traditional console it would have did 20-30 million, thats about the same as ps2 era, now his gen were probably looking 180 million with all 3 combined not including switch, so i'm not seeing anything similar compared to handhelds. the market for handhelds shrunk because of mobile gaming, and smart phones.

the lack of understanding of my  point  hurts my head. question if nintedo made the ps4, and had the 3ds as well, you think they would just combine the markets? basically giving the powerful dedicated home market to Microsoft? the reason nintendo combined markets is because that market is already saturated by Microsoft and sony, because thats where third party games  are established and sell consoles, if ps4 and Microsoft didn't exist you think nintedo would just combine markets, and then not make a powerful home console? then get real      

PS2 like DS had selling power outside of gaming for one in Japan it was selling as a cheap DVD player for the first few years you know what was the top PS2 seller back at launch in Japan? It was The Matrix dvd, Gen 7 with the PS3 and 360 is going from one platform that's an anomaly to a gen that's an anomaly as the combined total of gen 7 is 260m this gen is not even going to get near half of that under your own logic the market has shrunk and disappeared, gen 7 is the only gen in history where all 3 platforms did well.

Yes they've been trying to combine the markets since the SNES days which is why their consoles have had add ons to play portable games your head hurts because understanding business is not your strong point, they'd combined them with out Sony or MS being there as well in fact that would be more reason to as it saves resources, money by cutting out a tonne of costs and makes the market easier to manage, increases company efficiency it's you who should get real. Your chain of thought is hardware sales so money when Nintendo's business has always made the majority of their money on software this is why the GC brought in more money for Nintendo than the PS2 did for Sony despite the massive gap in sales their business model revolves around software which is a key reason two platforms drained resources and money with the ever increasing development cost, having one userbase on one platform to buy their software benefits this business approach far more as reducing the resource load by half alone increases what they can invest in and focus on.