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Soundwave on 27 May 2015
PwerlvlAmy said:
Soundwave said:


Nintendo's never faced this kind of competetion in the portable gaming space before. 

I'm sure if given a choice they would happily go back to the days where smartphones didn't exist and all they had to worry about was Sony's PSP. That was a cake walk by comparison. 


I don't see the handheld situation as dire as people make it out to be atm

The fact of the matter is mobile is far more formidable competetion to Nintendo than anything they've faced before. 

The notion that somehow Nintendo needs Sony to be competetion is laughable. Nintendo execs would do naked backflips down the street to go back to the days where all they had to worry about was Sony's portable competion. I'm sure Nintendo looks back at that time as the "good ol' days"



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small44 on 27 May 2015

It start to be dead even in Japan



PS4 - over 100 millions let's say 120m
Xbox One - 70m
Wii U - 25m

Vita - 15m if it will not get Final Fantasy Kingdoms Heart and Monster Hunter 20m otherwise
3DS - 80m

Curmudgeon on 27 May 2015

And what a legacy it leaves...

Inferior ports of console games (why play these games on a handheld?) and abandoned by Sony.

It had potential but not much came of it. Tearaway was cool though. At least it lives on in Japan for now



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PwerlvlAmy on 27 May 2015
Soundwave said:
PwerlvlAmy said:


I don't see the handheld situation as dire as people make it out to be atm

The fact of the matter is mobile is far more formidable competetion to Nintendo than anything they've faced before. 

The notion that somehow Nintendo needs Sony to be competetion is laughable. Nintendo execs would do naked backflips down the street to go back to the days where all they had to worry about was Sony's portable competion. I'm sure Nintendo looks back at that time as the "good ol' days"


I disagree,but we'll leave it at that



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Zappykins on 27 May 2015
Kresnik said:
This is the most acknowledgement Sony have given the Vita in years, so that's something!

Ha ha ha! Now that's funny.

Can anyone say what's wrong with it?  My Sony Luv'n buddy says he hardly ever plays his either.  Played one game on it, then meh.

Are Phones just the new handhelds now? (Besides the 3DS.)



 

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Soundwave on 27 May 2015
small44 said:
It start to be dead even in Japan


It's never really been that alive in Japan anyway either. It's not going to sell even half of what the PSP did there, actually probably not even 1/3. 



MikeRox on 27 May 2015
PwerlvlAmy said:
Soundwave said:


Nintendo's never faced this kind of competetion in the portable gaming space before. 

I'm sure if given a choice they would happily go back to the days where smartphones didn't exist and all they had to worry about was Sony's PSP. That was a cake walk by comparison. 


I don't see the handheld situation as dire as people make it out to be atm


I think a drop of total userbase from 230m to what is looking like it'll be under 80m in a generation is a pretty dire situation.

Then take a look at the actual games coming to handhelds and note that the West has completely abandoned them seriously limiting the genres available.

Handheld is in a dire place right now.



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PwerlvlAmy on 27 May 2015
RolStoppable said:
PwerlvlAmy said:

You have no competition, you have no room for improvement and you become complacennt when one person holds the monopoly. Less options. Competition will always be good imo

Plenty of companies have become complacent in the video game business despite never holding a monopoly, so the existence of competition really hasn't helped.

Besides, video games are entertainment, so even a monopoly couldn't act as it pleases. If the offered product is deemed no good or too expensive by the market at large, then even a monopoly would have to bow to the power of disinterest in order to survive.

Existing of competition has helped and I will continue believing this because without competition, you wouldnt have some of the titles you see today in the gaming industry. Competition fueled creativity in the gaming industry and made it what it was today. You're free to disagree with that and I 100% respect it, but that's how I personally feel about it



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LipeJJ on 27 May 2015

So, Sony basically confirmed the Vita is forever dead to them. About time to confess it.



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Soundwave on 27 May 2015
MikeRox said:
PwerlvlAmy said:


I don't see the handheld situation as dire as people make it out to be atm


I think a drop of total userbase from 230m to what is looking like it'll be under 80m in a generation is a pretty dire situation.

Then take a look at the actual games coming to handhelds and note that the West has completely abandoned them seriously limiting the genres available.

Handheld is in a dire place right now.

The other bad thing is a big chunk of those 3DS sales came early in the life cycle too (its first Christmas season still is its best I think) ... so before things like the iOS shop really took hugely and the iPad was just a newborn then. 

The next handheld from Nintendo will have it much tougher. At least 3DS had a year or so early on where mobile was still relatively young and raw.