NSW2 Lifetime Sales

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HoloDust said:

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Yeah PC handhelds are too niche to have any significant impact on Switch 2; they appeal to the most hardcore enthusiasts, the kind of person who either wouldn't buy a Switch 2 anyway, or who would probably get one in addition to their ROG Ally or Steam Deck.

Switch also has a very different value proposition to phone gaming, people aren't going to opt against getting a Switch 2 just cos they can play candy crush on their phone, if they did Switch 1 wouldn't have been so successful.

PC "handhelds" are not the only one's that will try to make that blue ocean more red.

As for phones - well, they've already shattered once dedicated handheld market - honestly, from my POV, I don't see Switch, PC and future XBOX/PS dedicated "handhelds" as classic handhelds - given their dimensions and weight, it's more sensible to call them portables. Handhelds, as they once were, as in devices you can carry around in your pocket, currently live in smartphones.
And yes, currently, bar the time you spend playing in each category, there is not that much overlap between mobile and dedicated gaming portables market, apart from small collection of titles that are available on both and mobile titles that are aiming to be full-blown console gaming experiences...but for some reason, I have this itch that says that this will all change in next XYZ years.

Phones and hybrids are quite different niches; around the time Switch 1 came out a lot of people predicted that the prevalence of phone gaming would limit its sales as a portable device, yet it still went on to become one of the highest selling systems of all time.

I don't see any reason that would change this time around, attempts to bring console type gaming to phones have failed miserably, the audiences are after two very different things.