smartphones are eating away at their handheld sales.
Umm....no they're not. Considering the 3DS is outselling the DS(which is the best selling console of all time) I find that to be untrue
Hmmm methinks you are not so well versed on the subject
"Rather than the classic stoic Japanese executive, the man has been unusually honest and contemplative about his company’s recent decisions. He admitted that 3D is not an audience lure, that it was a mistake to not embrace digital distribution, and he’s adamantly defended some of Nintendo’s unusual hardware design decisions. Iwata was clearly humbled by the failure of the 3DS in 2011—a 50 percent pay cut will do that—and his direction of the company since reflects lessons learned."
http://www.digitaltrends....lled-handheld-gaming-yet/As for the DS being the best selling handheld of all time.
I owned 2. My cousin owned 2, his sister owned 4, my grandmother owned 3, when i was in college i knew a group of ~30 kids who all owned 2-3.(In almost every instance it was to get a new model or because the old one had broken.)
Primarily the people i have listed were not buying many releases and they certainly were not buying games that were a "good/deep gaming experience."
Funny that you are defending this so much when years ago you were bragging about how many millions of units blackberry had sold (since you loved yours so much) and how it was going to replace handheld gaming. Unfortunately almost all of your posts were deleted so i can't quote it.
Meanwhile over at Apple
"One Apple product, something that didn’t exist five years ago, has higher sales than everything Microsoft has to offer. More than Windows, Office, Xbox, Bing, Windows Phone, and every other product that Microsoft has created since 1975. In the quarter ended March 31, 2012,
iPhone had sales of $22.7 billion; Microsoft Corporation, $17.4 billion."
http://www.forbes.com/sit...re-than-all-of-microsoft/"Apple's Q4 2012 earnings are out, and the data provided gives us an insight into how well the company performed over the last quarter relative to historical data.
Let's start with Apple's flagship product, the iPhone.
The quarter
only covers nine days of the iPhone 5 launch, so this is not the favored quarter to expect stratospheric sales. Nevertheless, Apple sold
26.9 million units, making it the iPhone's third best quarter ever (behind the first two quarters of 2012), and up 58 percent on the same quarter a year ago."
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