The rise of smartphones and then tablets ate into
the traditional handheld console market, and the online gaming explosion drew more and more gamers to Sony and Microsoft platforms.
Not exact matches
The mobile gaming
market has come on in leaps and bounds over the years, to a point that, visually, many games are starting to rival those found on
traditional handheld gaming devices and indeed home
consoles.
The reason is simple, Nintendo are not doing well in the
traditional console market with both their home
console and
handheld device and this means that they have no new revenue stream to fall back on should
traditional revenue dry up.