I'm not saying the 3DS is a failure, I'm saying the dedicated handheld market doesn't exist.  Though it'd be more accurate to say that market is shrinking, and it's collapsing quite aggressively.  Consoles this gen grew despite the PS3 not selling PS2 numbers.  You can't say that about the handheld space.

3DS's software sales are a bit misleading.  NIntendo titles sell like beasts... everything else?  And I said what I needed to say about hardware.

Mobile bubble already exploded, it's why everyone who isn't Gameloft, are just making throwaway titles.  Well, there's Japanese companies, but they're jumping on late :/ and will probably not have the sales because of it.  It's actually interesting to point out that Final Fantasy Dimensions has a comparatively small download number on Android...

http://inbound.appannie.com/app-annie-idc-gaming-report-q2-2013

As much as I love my Vita and 3DS, there are many great games for iOS and Android out there. Many of them are ports, but they are often great ports.

XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Knights of the Old Republic, Shadowrun Returns, World of Goo, Ace Attorney Trilogy HD, Monkey Island 1 + 2 S.E., Broken Sword 1 + 2,  The Walking Dead, Back to the Future, Sam & Max, Hector, Edna & Harvey, Gemini Rue, 1112, The Inner World, Cognition, City of Secrets, République,  Trauma, The Room, Carcassonne, Cut the Rope, Where is My Water/Perry/Mickey, Infinity Blade 1 - 3, Rayman Jungle Run, Ghost Trick, The World Ends With You, Scribblenauts Remix, Layton Brothers: Mystery Room, ...

Yes handheld market is in decline this gen but it's not dead and it's dosn't mean the next gen handheld won't outsell this gen handheld.

When I said "other handhelds" I was including the PSP and DS in the mix. Although the PSP had a lot of racing games, they were nearly all massively cut back compared with home console versions.

Motorstorm Arctic Edge was probably the first PSP racer I played where it was like "wow! this feels like a full game!".

I originally got a PSP on the promise of Burnout Legends being a perfect handheld compilation of the earlier Burnout titles, and it didn't even come close for me. Horrible frame rate, really low poly environments and yeah, just nothing like. The likes of Midnight Club, Need for Speed etc were all awful cut back cheap ports. Same for Dirt 2, TOCA etc. Sure it got the games, but they weren't really worthy of note.

I guess that's why NFS: Most Wanted blows me away so much, yeah the graphics got cut back, but it's still very comparable and all the actual game modes/content are there (apart from the DLC). I can't think of any other handheld racer that is so close to the home console version when the game is also pushing the home consoles pretty heavily.

Regarding the graphs showing handheld revenue versus Google Play and iTunes. Look at the period it covers. What releases of note came out on either 3DS or Vita in Q1 and Q2? Soul Sacrifice is the only physical Vita release I can think of. They also don't have access to Sony and Nintendo's digital revenues and so I have no idea how they could have formed those graphs with real data.

It'll be interesting to see how a "meagre" 40 million 3DS's with Pokemon and Monster Hunter in similar periods competes with all those hundreds of million Android and iOS owners. Somehow I don't think we'll see the same graph, it was clearly created to say "rah handheld gaming doomed to mobile devices" when any gamer worth their salt knows iOS and Android have a long way to go to become remotely worthy of being dedicated gaming formats right now.

It's sad we didn't get the DLCs for NFS. I'd get the all if they were on Vita, since I like to support good Vita games. Even if they released them now - I wouldn't mind. On the other hand, I'm still on the fence whether I should get the DLCs on PS3. Could anyone give his/her opinion on them?

Those figures are just in time for Pokemon X/Y to rub them in.

Those figures are just in time for Pokemon X/Y to rub them in.

Btw, Injustice looks really good on the Vita. I love my MK on the Vita so i will be getting injustice aswell. I stayed away from the console version on purpose waiting for the Vita version. Not a launch buy as my aquisitions for the year are finalised, but i will get it when its cheaper.

I've started using my twitter account to contact some of the smaller devs working on Vita projects and, surprisingly, they've all replied so far which is nice.  Maybe I should do this more often.

Anyway, things I've discovered:

Vtrax by SuperIcon is on hold for the time being while they work on other stuff (really disappointed by this).

Any news on the sales of the new Vita?

Puppeteer would have sold so much better if it was a Vita title I reckon