Nintendo actually had a larger monopoly in the 1990's, and had much more competition at least terms of number of competing systems(Sega Game Gear, Atari Lynx, Sega Nomad, Neo Geo Pocket, etc.). PSP has been the only system ever to seriously challenge Nintendo's handheld crown. The only difference is now the number of competitors is small and the the sales are higher for them.

so-you try to say that nintendo won't have a handheld monopol when vita dies and nintendo have a monopol.?

you are a genius -guy.

And ios/android games(either 99% shit or suffering from shitty controls )to be euqivalent competitors?lol-that's like pretending that the usual tv shit shows and series that are shown all the day long are a fair competition to hollywood 200 mio blockbuster movies.

please stop making stupid threads.

Maybe they will go to 3ds but not to smartphones.

they need much more money than they're getting now in order to pat R&D costs for vita.

Gamers don't like admitting it, but Android and Iphone are competition, albiet not officially since it isn't "the big 3".

I really don't think android/ios as competition for handhelds. its almost in a completely different market. I tried gaming strictly on my ipod for a month, but it just suuuuuucks for gaming. most of the games are crap, and even the best ones pales in comparison to games like Kid Icarus Uprising, AC New Leaf, Mario Kart 7, RE revelations, Luigi's Mansion etc. etc.

the only thing they have over handhelds is that they are dirt cheap, but im willing to shell out $30+ a game if that means Im getting good quality. me, and my other fellow gamers still play games on our Ipods/Iphones but mostly because we don't really have anything better to do, like if we are just waiting for something and its the best way to pass time.

the only market it exclusively has is the casual gamer market, and current 3DS sales show that they are doing pretty darn fine without them.