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Cerebralbore101 on 30 January 2019
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zorg1000 said:
Cerebralbore101 said:

It's not spin, its context. If I told you that some 14 year old kid beat one of the NBA's best players at one on one basketball, would you want to draft that kid when he got old enough? Now, what if I told you that the kid only beat him because the NBA player had a full leg cast at the time? It's still a fact that the kid beat him, but context changes everything. 

The Wii and DS were not competing with the iPhone. The Wii was a completely different device. As for the DS we can just take a look at the following chart.

Remember iPhone launched in 2007. It doesn't look like it effected DS sales at all. 

As far as the N64 selling more first party software, well of course it did. 3rd parties left Nintendo in droves for the PS1, and with less 3rd party games, to compete, sales of Nintendo developed games shot up. 

I agree with the NES part. It was Nintendo most commercially successful system hands down. 

This isnt really telling the full story. Yes, iPhone released in 2007 but it took a few years before it became the mass market device we know today. Here are yearly sales of iPhone.

2007-1.39m

2008-11.63m

2009-20.73m

2010-39.99m

2011-72.29m

2012-125.05m

2013-150.26m

2014-169.22m

2015-231.22m

2016-211.88m

2017-216.76m

2018-217.72m

https://www.statista.com/statistics/276306/global-apple-iphone-sales-since-fiscal-year-2007/#0

I'm assuming Android phones have seen a similar sales curve.

 

There is no denying smartphones have affected handhelds & casual consoles. DS+Wii+PSP sold over 335 million units, 3DS+Wii U+Vita have sold under 105 million units. That's nearly a 70% drop.

That's entirely my point though. Smartphones weren't yet ubiquitous in 2007 to 2009. 

As far as Vita/Wii-U goes those systems flopped for many reasons. Smartphones just happened to be one of them. I'm confident that if Nintendo had skipped the 3D effect and launched the 3DS as a 2DS XL model they would have hit 100 million. Remember the 3DS launched as a tiny little device costing $250. It didn't start to see real sales until the XL model came out. But yeah, smartphones would have kept the 3DS from ever reaching 150 million regardless of how Nintendo launched it.