No because there’s no exclusives. That’s what was wrong with the psp and vita. Not enough exclusives.

October last year?

when Forza horizon 4 dropped.

@King_Noctis

And you have to go back a year before that to uave another in the form of FM7 and Gears4.

The point is, MS don't have many of them and they sure as hell would not be able to support mobile while still supporting their main console.

Sad to say this but Sony's desire to dominate the console space has led to the demise of the Vita which is an awesome handheld. MS should only look at THAT and learn that they should just stay away from handheld

https://www.forbes.com/site...

they do have an attachment for cell phones to hook up with a controller, but no, the only way you would be able to play without touch controls right now would be a controller. But the switch while slim, is long, and not much bulkier in that sense then a controller

@phoenix, I agree. There are a lot of barriers in getting a new streaming service off the ground and getting that perfect device as a reference implementation is needed imo. Playing serious games with a touchscreen or aftermarket controller bolt on is not going to go mainstream. MS and Sony should offer streaming handhelds for cheap if they want the services to take off. How hard could it be? Whether or not they're successful is anyone's guess. I'd say Sony has a better shot than MS since they're a little further down the road.

@krib

No offence man, but that set up looks like it was put together by the A-Team in a barn shed! lmao

If that was the case phones would have already killed the Switch. But thankfully that is not the case.

but phones slowed the sales of the 3ds and essentially killed the Vita.

combine that with the report out of the UK yesterday that said 80% of game sales are digital(3.89 billion total sales, 3 billion of it digital) , and 75% of AAA sales are physical (almost 800 million) meaning that the casual cell phone markets with free to play games etc are the biggest drivers of money brought in, and a dedicated portable system doesn’t seem like they are doing that great

@krib
You sound like you want dedicated consoles to lose to phones and tablets.
But I also disagree, the Switch’s success shows that people prefer dedicated gaming devices. For example I have 6 games downloaded to my tablet. I only play one of them, and I’ve regrettably have paid them for micro transactions on 5 occasions, each time costing 2.99. I believe most people fall into this category. They download games on their tablets and they might even spend the longest time on these games because of the convenience, but guess what? When I’m studying, I’m dreaming about playing on my console, not my iPad. If I have free time, I will spend it playing on a dedicated video game device. Whereas I only play on the iPad during times when I’m taking a break in between study sessions. It’s not something I consider as “gaming”. It’s wasting/passing time.

80 million but what did the competition do? 154 million is what they did. and based on conversations that people tried to tell me a couple weeks ago in regards to the xbox one not being a flop at 40 million “.MrPickles201813d ago
Every time I see this kind of article I'm sure it was written by someone trying to convince themselves that they made the right choice. We all know that the Xbox One is a commercial failure ... they keep lying to themselves.
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“XtreemGamer13d ago
It is if the competition is at 90 million...
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“Potnoodle99912d ago
Selling less than half your competitions sales near the end of gen and the company in second also ready to outsell you means yes it is a commercial failure
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people seem to think even selling a lot, of you sell half of your competition its a commercial failure.

I for one would agree with you and say the PSP was a big success, and the vita flopped pretty hard, but others on this site don’t seem to share yours and my thoughts. At least that’s what i gathered from the xbox article

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse