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>I don’t see why Epic couldn’t create their own gaming focussed device, and buy a bunch of exclusive titles including their own content. Nobody would buy a pho

• zepto 6y ago
  Please refrain from breaking the site guidelines by complaining about good faith. Are you saying that nobody can ever successfully sell a handheld gaming device again? People in fact do buy handheld devices that play games, and there is no reason Epic cannot enter the handheld gaming market. If they can sell a handheld gaming device, they can make that device cellular, and they can add an App Store. People won’t buy it as a phone or to run app initially, but if they sell it successfully as a gaming device, they can use that success to attract more apps to the store.
  • boogies 6y ago
    > People in fact do buy handheld devices that play games But do people buy devices exclusively for playing handheld games? The 3DS is now officially out of production (and hadn’t had first party games in years, IIRC) and the Vita has been dead for longer. That leaves the Nintendo Switch, and while the Lite does exclusively play games in handheld mode, it plays the entire library of Switch games, including ones that were originally only designed for home consoles. And Nintendo created the dedicated gaming handheld market and was the uninterrupted leader and as often as not %70+ marketshare monopoly ever since Gunpei Yokoi made the Game&Watch AFAIK.