The Road to 160m+ for Nintendo Switch

[XtremeBG]

curl-6 said:

A big share of those 240 million handheld gamers in the 7th gen is now the phone gaming audience; the casual players who mostly played stuff like Brain Age and Nintendogs, or kids now getting a tablet instead of a DS.

Comparing Switch's sales to the combined install base of DS + PSP is not an apples to apples comparison because of this; the explosion in phone/tablet gaming stole away a huge amount of that audience, and Switch has to compete with that whereas DS and PSP for the most part did not.

Yes, I absolutely agree. But the point is still true. The handheld console market was once bigger. Therefore it's not mind blowing now. Switch does not need to compete. There are simply less people interested in handheld console device than they were back then. Of course there was some overlap, but still, I doubt the overlap was 80-90M. Big chunk of those went to smartphones.

I personally would want Sony and Microsoft to put out new handheld, because it will be interesting. Will it be possible for the handheld market to grow bigger than what it is now with the Switch ? Can they actually compete with Nintendo on this front and what portion of sales they can take from them ? Hopes the rumors become true. Only the customers win in that situation.

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