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Nintendo found its niche. They couldn't compete with MS or Sony in the home console market. But they OWN portables. Especially now that Sony bowed out after the
by Feniks 9y ago
Nintendo found its niche. They couldn't compete with MS or Sony in the home console market. But they OWN portables. Especially now that Sony bowed out after the Vita.
- GVIrish 9y agoI don't think it's that they couldn't, it's that they consistently choose not to. Nintendo's first party titles are arguably much stronger than those of Sony and Microsoft, but Nintendo is not particularly interested in the graphical power arms race. They'd rather build something that fits in the pricing segment they've always been in, and maybe try to innovate on how people interact with the console. Their strategy makes Nintendo somewhat unattractive to AAA third party developers but they're profitable on every system sold, and they sell plenty of copies of their major franchises.
- megaman22 9y agoCellphones have completely cannibalized the portable market. I will never buy a portable; I've got multiple generations of Samsung phone equipment happy to step into that niche
- Marazan 9y agoThe kind of games I get on my DS are barely even similar to the kind of games I get on my mobile phone.
- zaarn 9y agoEven considering that I haven't touched my DSLite for over 2 years now, I prefer it over mobile phone games. I got an amazing amount of fun out of it that I have yet to find in __any__ mobile game on the market, stuff like the Super Mario Bros for DS or Harvest Moon. I have sunk weeks of playing time into those.