More likely Nintendo fans are in for some serious crow eating the next 2-3 months.

Sony's audience -- the hardcore gamer is still there, and Sony was smart enough to make a straight forward next-gen machine and sell it at a resonable price. They're being rewarded for making smart moves during the development of the system. 

Nintendo decided to do their own thing again but have been abandoned by the casual audience that drove the Wii to its huge success, and by also alienating the core gamer last gen, they're finding that the hangover from the Wii era is looking real rough. 

Crow eating? Ninty and Nintendo fans will watch the highest debuting platform of all time take an asskicking to 3DS next year so no not really. 

3DS is not "asskicking" anything IMO, it had a nice surge for the holidays with Nintendo throwing everything they can at it (Pokemon X/Y, 2DS, etc.), but it's general Jan-September sales were nothing to write home about. It's no DS. 

The fact is I think like an insidious cancer, the smartphone/tablet revolution slowly but surely is damaging the handheld market as each day marches on, more and more kids are being introduced to gaming on those platforms. 

And your proof of this is 3DS ass raping PS3 currently? Ok bud keep on whining while 3DS keeps on selling. It doesnt need to be a "DS" to beat these platforms apparently. And is PS3 a failure then since it wont be close to PS2? Same with PS4? I love how 3DS is so bad because it wont match DS yet this doesnt apply to them lol.

More likely Nintendo fans are in for some serious crow eating the next 2-3 months.

Sony's audience -- the hardcore gamer is still there, and Sony was smart enough to make a straight forward next-gen machine and sell it at a resonable price. They're being rewarded for making smart moves during the development of the system. 

Nintendo decided to do their own thing again but have been abandoned by the casual audience that drove the Wii to its huge success, and by also alienating the core gamer last gen, they're finding that the hangover from the Wii era is looking real rough. 

It isn't even matching the GBA's pace actually, but it will sell more than the GBA in the end simply because it won't be replaced after 3 years.

But you're the one who's making bold claims of 3DS "raping" the PS4, lol, not me, the obligation is on you to actually back that up with something other than hot air. 

The 3DS is not going to have a better lineup next year than they did this year, it's quite probable 2014 will be down YoY for them. The PS4 is probably getting Destiny, Uncharted 4, inFamous: Second Son, the first "real" next-gen Madden NFL (Nintendo fans can scoff all they want, for a large portion of the market this is their "big game"), and probably by next summer/fall Sony will likely be able to drop the price of the PS4 too. 

Sony just made a very smartly designed system. I also think Nintendo is in tough because a lot of market trends are going against them whereas in 2006, I think that pendeluem was swinging the other way. Right now, casual/party and cartoony franchises are in tough on consoles I think, Mario will do fine like he always does, but even for Sony things like Puppeteer is bombing and so will Knack most probably. Wonderful 101 is a bomb, LittleBigPlanet Racing was, etc. etc. and a lot of the party/mini-game fests that flooded the market 4-5 years ago are done for today. 

More likely Nintendo fans are in for some serious crow eating the next 2-3 months.

Sony's audience -- the hardcore gamer is still there, and Sony was smart enough to make a straight forward next-gen machine and sell it at a resonable price. They're being rewarded for making smart moves during the development of the system. 

Nintendo decided to do their own thing again but have been abandoned by the casual audience that drove the Wii to its huge success, and by also alienating the core gamer last gen, they're finding that the hangover from the Wii era is looking real rough. 

This actually makes me feel better about the main reason I was annoyed about this turn of events. I can understand that and prefer that theory ALOT to the whole "more boom" theory.