Why did handhelds die this generation?

>>385980847
Because you posted from an iPhone

>>385980847

You mean "why did the PSVita die"

The answer is, "because it was weeaboo trash"

They didn't, there's tons of fun games. You just don't like them.

>>385980847
It's time to emerge from your rock

The rise of mobile phones made it harder for parents to justify buying a separate handheld device for their kids that's only for games and adults would rather just play free time killers on their phones
3DS was able to do better than Vita due to price dropping in 2011 before mobile phones were everywhere, Vita released too late

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They didn't.

>>385981065
Nintendo had to merge both handhelds and consoles in order to make something people would buy. There's not going to be a new game boy or psp ever again.

>>385981247
3ds

>>385980935
>>385981038
Correct.
>>385981247
>There's not going to be a new game boy or psp ever again.
I'm praying for this to be true.

>implying a true PSP2 with two analogs and non-proprietary external memory, on a power level similar to/better than switch at a lower price isn't possible
>implying this product wouldn't clean up

3DS is at 70 million, expected to do another 10 million by next march. And literally just got a 1 million seller in Japan 2 days ago. On top of still getting fucking support like with Persona Q, Pokémon and Metroid

>>385980847
to give you a legitimate answer, it was definitely the rise of mobile gaming. people no longer needed a dedicated device to play their games.

>>385981523
Im sure everyone would rush out to get a Vita 2 mate.

Will sony promise to support it with games for more than 2 years this time?

>>385981659
Of course not

>>385980847
In general, mobile phones
About the Vita, because Sony tried to market it as a portable PS3 when really it was a weeb game machine. Also shitty overpriced proprietary memory cards (which is the only reason I don't have one). Then everyone started porting its games to PC and PS4, diminishing its value further.
About the 3DS, because Nintendo wants to focus on the Switch and will probably phase out the DS line completely within a few years if the Switch remains successful (which is a pretty big if).

>>385980847

But they didn't, 3DS and Vita had the best libraries in this rather anemic gen.

>>385980847
this is why the vita is gone >>>385941512

>>385980847
They didn't, 3DS is extremely sucessful and still getting games. Switch is also successful.

The vitanic failed because it had no games.

>>385981465
Hacked PSPs and Vitas are amazing. All those emulators can keep you entertained for a lifetime.

>>385982345

Games aren't why Vita failed, Sony's baseline retardation is why. Games like Killzone Mercenary, Wipeout 2048, Uncharted Golden Abyss, Gravity Rush, Tearaway, Soul Sacrifice, Freedom Wars and Persona 4 Golden could only do so much in the wake of expensive proprietary memory cards, heavily misguided marketing, and generally competing against a Nintendo handheld that's hit its stride.

>>385982867
The propertary memory cards (and the awful pricing) and the horrible HORRIBLE "boobs in the back" marketing killed it.

>>385982345
no gaem meme xD

>>385982345
nigga, you obviously never played indie games on vita.

>>385982953

>and the horrible HORRIBLE "boobs in the back" marketing

That's just one part of it. Sony initially aimed the Vita at western audiences when in reality Nintendo gets away with it due to a handful of bankable IPs like Pokemon or Nintendogs. Sony doesn't have that kind of foothold at all, PSP sold due to homebrew and/or MonHun depending on what part of the world you're talking about. They probably didn't like the PSP being cracked open the way it did either, hence the anti-piracy, anti-consumer measures like the memory cards, tying save data to the application and only one PSN per handheld.

But I digress, Sony found no success appealing to the west beyond indies because surprise surprise, people want western games on consoles and PC, not handhelds. Sony wanted it to be a portable PS3 more or less, and when it found success in Japan instead they went full retard and failed entirely to capitalize on that. Instead of pushing the Japanese support it did get around the world, they flaunted indie support and the occasional in-house title like Killzone or Uncharted, and when that failed to pan out they STILL didn't put the Japanese support on the forefront, instead pushing it as a PS4 accessory via Remote Play. When that failed, they basically gave up and washed their hands of the thing.

Meanwhile, a small but dedicated niche of localizers and Japanese game fans are the closest thing to a lifeblood the handheld had outside of Japan, which remains the case even now. Sony was the Vita's worst enemy from square one, they completely ignored what it did right and got frustrated when it wasn't exactly what they wanted it to be.

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>>385980847
Pokemon was literally the only thing keeping them afloat and Sun and Moon were enough of a disappointment that they sunk the momentum of handhelds