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Your right the 3DS did great when looking at sheer numbers but when it "only" sold half of its predecessor I have a feeling that this helped Nintendo to end the
by raytopia 3y ago
Your right the 3DS did great when looking at sheer numbers but when it "only" sold half of its predecessor I have a feeling that this helped Nintendo to end the handheld line.
At some point I need to write a blog post about how weird console numbers are when it comes to deciding what fails and what succeeds because you're a 100% correct the 3DS did great but because it sold less then the last gen it was a "failure".
- burnte 3y ago> I have a feeling that this helped Nintendo to end the handheld line. I think you might want to reevaluate this position seeing as their current console and multimillion seller is handheld. It CAN dock, but even then there's a no-dock model, the Lite, which is handheld only.
- extraduder_ire 3y agoHandhelds, almost as a rule, outsell home consoles. Mostly because they're per-person rather than per-household, and also because they break and get replaced. The explosion of smartphone gaming was probably the biggest contributor to canning the 3DS.