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DSGamer64, on 20 February 2012 - 02:06 PM, said:
XtremeCore, on 20 February 2012 - 12:48 PM, said:
NahuelDS, on 20 February 2012 - 10:40 AM, said:
wow the gba did really well
GBA did well because it was the only mainstream handheld during 2000s. No competition or whatsoever in the handheld market.
The PSP and PS Vita were not on the market when both the DS and 3DS launched, what's your point? Nintendo has never had any real competition in the portable market. The Sega Gamegear was the biggest colossal flop next to the N-Gage and some of the other attempts by companies at portable console gaming.
I'm talking about competition in terms of handheld generations, not their demographic appeal. The DS and PSP were in the same generation era. So are the 3DS and PSVita.
As long as consumers get to choose which handheld should they get, there is competition. Nintendo has never had any real competition in the portable market during the 6th generation era (i.e. GBA era) because software line-ups are clearly more superior than other companies. Also, install base of GBA was clearly larger than other handheld. More developers invest into GBA for the handheld market of the industry.
However, in the 7th generation era, developers are now given choices - DS or PSP. It's no longer the old GBA-Only for Handheld kind of situation. Different developers develop games for different handheld to meet the different needs of their games (DS for intuitiveness and PSP for horsepower perhaps?). As a result, titles which could have been on the DS are now shifted to the PSP. Since for many gamers, software sells hardware, consumers now make decision on which handheld to buy based on the software line-ups. This is the competition I was talking about.
