From: transcience | #083
analyst doom and gloom begins
http://www.forbes.com/sites/terokuittinen/2011/12/29/sony-in-big-trouble-with-ps-vita/
Nearly every professional analyst is saying that tablets and smartphones will kill handheld gaming soon, just like they have for the past couple of years.
But it won't happen, just like how PC gaming will never die. There will ALWAYS be a market for dedicated gaming handhelds, no matter how many people own tablets. To say that handheld gaming will be killed is to say that the market for handheld consoles will cease to exist, which is dumb.
That is, until you get into more gray territory. What if you had a Vita that could natively run Android apps. Is that a tablet now? Or a handheld game console? The market may go in that direction for sure, but $1 apps are not going to kill the desire for AAA $40+ handheld games.
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