The "consoles are dead" years were hilarious in retrospect

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Another thing that seemed appealing with mobile gaming outside of convenience and having all your media on one device is that most console like mobile games were either free or at a very low cost compared to the 60$ games on console, making many people believe people would rather just play games on smartphones instead of console for now on since they won't need to buy an expensive console or games when a smartphone could do all of that. Clearly that wasn't the case cause like I said people can't take games with touch controls seriously and won't bother with the hassle of buying or connecting a Bluetooth controller to smartphones and that the games on smartphones never got close to mimicking what we saw on consoles, making a more expensive consoles and games worth it still for most consumers.

However, it's not like smartphones didn't take any market share away from certain consoles, the 3DS sold only half what the DS sold and I think the obvious reason is that the casual gamers who played on DS moved to smartphone and tablet games and were content with playing very simple games on smartphones cause they didn't need to spend money on a separate gaming device and expensive games.But I think more importantly it's just that Nintendo didn't have an appealing enough concept with the 3DS and in a lot of ways it was too similar to the DS, and players won't care that the 3DS is more powerful.

Tbh because of smartphones gaming not gonna lie I thought that it would've been near impossible for Nintendo to reach Wii 100Million sales numbers again, let alone any console reach PS2 level sales cause I thought that a big portion of casual gamers who purchased game consoles before wouldn't buy a console again. However clearly I was very wrong as the Switch not only surpassed the Wii in sales, but now has a good potential of becoming the greatest selling console in history. If you told me this in 2015 that the Wii U successor will do numbers like this in a smartphone dominated era and with how poorly Nintendo was doing at the time I would've laughed at you and assumed you were trolling, but here we are. And I'm glad consoles are still more relevant than ever cause I would've never wanted to transition to mobile gaming.