MouseEatsCat writes:
"I bought a PSPgo. I know, I know. I bought into the whole digital-only hype. I bought into the delusion that this little handheld console was going to change the way we play games. And it didn’t. It completely flopped if you don’t somehow remember. And the flop brought with it wild speculation that the premium handheld market was dying. It was around this time we saw the emergence of smartphones and with them bite sized games."
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OMG...seriously...one right after the other now? These articles are getting very tedious!
We get it, everything has the ability to fail or succeed, we don't need to dissect everything all the time.
Again not aiming at this article particularly, just in general....
A failing console or not is successful in its own way. The Dreamcast is a good example.
I <3 the PSP even though it was a commercial fail. SOOOOOO many memorable JRPGs and Rpgs...yet the console was a fail.
The Vita is doing fine, if they drop the price to 199.99 base model I can see the console picking up...so many ppl deserve to play Gravity Rush, Disgaea 3 on the go and Persona 4!!!
K be happy!
Not a very in-depth article, but I agree with its overall premise. Smartphones an tablets have definitely eaten away at the consumer base for dedicated handhelds, but in the long run those two devices are targeting the general consumer, whereas the handheld is targeting a specific type of consumer. This means that there can and will be overlap (i.e someone who buys a smartphone will also see the need in purchasing a handheld). The two are compliments, really, rather than competitors, though I do believe the 3DS specifically will be the last clam-shelled handheld of its kind.
I would hope that we can all agree that tablets haven't "killed" the handheld gaming platform market, as out of touch industry "analysts" have said. You can't kill one market with a different market. Speedboats didn't "kill" the fishing boat market because they are at a different price point, aimed at a different demographic, and they do a different task. Good luck getting your 30 foot speed boat in a lake in Iowa. ;)