Sentences with phrase «dedicated handheld market»
The dedicated handheld market is one that's vanishing, yet Sony is willing to bet its latest portable on it.
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Ultimately it's becoming increasingly clear that the dedicated handheld market is not as big as it once was and Nintendo's 3DS will struggle to even ship half of what the DS sold last generation.
Neil Young (Ngmoco's CEO, not the alt - rock legend) has suggested that smartphones and the mobile platforms provided by Apple and Google are slowly chipping away at the dedicated handheld market.
Not exact matches
When the younger market can access these games on mobile and at little to no cost then it's clear why mobile has pretty much replaced dedicated handhelds among the younger market and this is backed up by NPD who state that kids now spend more time on mobile gaming than any other platform.
If you're going to go off on how the handheld market is on phones, then by all means, 3rd parties shouldn't be supporting Xbox One or PS4 either, since clearly PC & Mobile are the mass market and dedicated systems are not.
Many core and casual gamers now have a smartphone which can play games and these devices have enough casual and core content that the market for a dedicated handheld console has rapidly declined over the past few years.
The decision to reveal Project NX to the public was too early for Nintendo's liking, but necessary to confirm their dedication to the dedicated console and handheld market.
Since 2009, we have seen a meteoric rise in the revenues and market share of games for iOS and Android devices and a decline in sales for dedicated handheld gaming consoles.
«Once again, this underlines just how crowded the handheld platform market space has gotten in the last 12 - 16 months with dedicated systems under increasing threat from the smartphone gaming business.»
While smartphones reign the masses, the 3DS has proven there is still a market for dedicated gaming handhelds for at least the near future.
«One of the encouraging things about 3DS» sales performance at Christmas is that it is confounding the naysayers who say that there is no room in the market for a dedicated handheld gaming device,» he said in an interview with MCV.