Is mobile over taking the DS?

[EmmaMay]

even with over 200 million DS's sold (https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/sales/hard_soft/) is the popularity of mobile taking over that of the DS? personally I find the DS to have higher quality games than that of mobile, but with Nintendo launching onto mobile is that a sign Nintendo are struggling in the handheld market?

[Starelementpoke]

12 minutes ago, EmmaMay said:

even with over 200 million DS's sold (https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/sales/hard_soft/) is the popularity of mobile taking over that of the DS? personally I find the DS to have higher quality games than that of mobile, but with Nintendo launching onto mobile is that a sign Nintendo are struggling in the handheld market?

More like the fact that they know they can save money from making a new DS every time they need to when they wanna release the next fancy pants pokemon game.

[Kiol]

Most people already have phones. They can easily just go to the app store or google play store to buy/download games digitally versus having to go to a store to buy them for the DS or order them online. Plus almost every parent is getting their kids a smartphone at a very young age nowadays, so games on mobile devices such as those are already readily available to them.

[minibois]

Well th 3DS is still a success, but people always have their phone with them so they see less of a use in handheld videogame systems. System only made for playing games. (they can do more, but mostly meant for gaming).

 

I still prefer my DS and 3DS games over anything that is on my phone, but with emulators and stuff it can definitely take over the handheld market.. But the physical controls of a handheld are a very big plus

[linuxfan66]

1 minute ago, Minibois said:

Well th 3DS is still a success, but people always have their phone with them so they see less of a use in handheld videogame systems. System only made for playing games. (they can do more, but mostly meant for gaming).

 

I still prefer my DS and 3DS games over anything that is on my phone, but with emulators and stuff it can definitely take over the handheld market.. But the physical controls of a handheld are a very big plus

they already ported the pokemon spinoff games to non nintendo platforms. I wouldn't be surprised if the whole franchise ends up going multiplatform one of these days...

[minibois]

2 minutes ago, linuxfan66 said:

they already ported the pokemon spinoff games to non nintendo platforms. I wouldn't be surprised if the whole franchise ends up going multiplatform one of these days...

well they could just port the spin off games to mobile all the time, because tbh they are not the best games ever, easy to control with on screen controls and they could give attention to the main series games on Nintendo's handheld platforms. Makes sense to me

[linuxfan66]

2 minutes ago, Minibois said:

well they could just port the spin off games to mobile all the time, because tbh they are not the best games ever, easy to control with on screen controls and they could give attention to the main series games on Nintendo's handheld platforms. Makes sense to me

Almost every mascot franchise that went multiplatform for even a bit ended up leaving the platform exclusivity permanently.  Crash bandicoot and spryo the dragon anyone?