I will say on the first point, if mobile killed handhelds, it's mostly baloney. Even with the 3DS selling less than other Nintendo handhelds, it still sold 70 million units. And really, the poor performance of the 3DS was due to issues with the 3DS, not handheld in general. Moreover, I'd say handheld gaming is in a better spot that mobile. While there are certainly a lot of mobile games that do well, most are gacha games. Really, you can only make a few kind of games on phones (which is a major problem Nintendo ran into). I think the problem with the statement "mobile killed handheld," is that the analyst in the industry have a problem at looking at the industry in totality. First, mobile was still new so a lot of the games could do well because it was an uptapped market. This declined when it became clear that people on mobile don't want to spend money (kind of a prerequisite for any market). Second, PSP Vita was doing poorly and the industry has a bad Sony bias. If Sony didn't leave the industry, it would still be talked about. Aside, but this is also why everyone missed the Switch because no one bothered to look at Nintendo's handheld sales.
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