Why is Nintendo winning the handheld war?

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Marketing	16	4.89%
Ultra marvelous fantastic games	175	53.52%
Sony need to do a better job	47	14.37%
Cultists fans	26	7.95%
More mainstream	21	6.42%
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shenlong213 on 09 June 2015

Just wanna know what do you think

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celador on 09 June 2015

Because it has no competition

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ihatefatkatz on 09 June 2015

Pokemon?

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Blob on 09 June 2015

Pokemon. Take that away and I honestly believe handhelds would collapse. They had no competition during the early years but pokemon has kept them alive.

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PwerlvlAmy on 09 June 2015

because it was written in the stars to dominate anyone that opposes them in the handheld market for consoles :O

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vivster on 09 June 2015

Because they are the only ones in it.

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daredevil.shark on 09 June 2015

War? Do they have competition? Nope. They are king in this regard. PSP did resistance and wasn't good enough.

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shenlong213 on 09 June 2015

daredevil.shark said:
War? Do they have competition? Nope. They are king in this regard. PSP did resistance and wasn't good enough.

How about Vita ? A handheld with better hardware, more interesting app & features

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Chazore on 09 June 2015

It wasn't as expensive (not in the longrun), went with micro SD cards, unlike Sony who went with the expensive proprietary ones, had 1st party game support, marketing up the wazoo and the handheld image for Nintendo being more popular in general.

Going to be fun to see those that didn't like the "no competition/shot themselves in the foot" examples on a certain related thread coming into here to take on that same example that they refused to listen to, already happened.

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