Naturally, this meant developers had no easy way to leverage both markets either porting down games to handhelds was damn near impossible unless you deliberately targeted that lower-end hardware in mind, while porting up games to consoles would require reworking gameplay for form factors that lack a touch screen. In Japan, playing on-the-go is more popular, with dedicated handhelds and smartphone games dominating the region, while in the West, audiences would rather stay home and play on their home consoles and PCs.
not necessarily thriving, but still doing far more than just surviving, Nintendo had a lot to think about going forward, especially since they had a third thing on their mind: bridging the gap between Eastern and Western players.
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With their home console dying and their portable console. While not selling as well as the Nintendo DS, it still defeated the Play Station Vita in a Curb-Stomp Battle and proved that dedicated devices still had their place despite mobile phone games gaining dominance in the 2010s. Meanwhile, despite an initially slow and painful start, the Nintendo 3DS had managed to maintain Nintendo's hold on the portable gaming market and keep them afloat.
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While this gave players the ability to enjoy their Wii U games even when a TV was unavailable, it lacked the versatility and flexibility of a true portable system since the GamePad was ultimately still tethered to the console. While games with second-screen features note which send separate images to the TV and GamePad screens to serve different gameplay purposes, like the Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS didn't catch on, most games for the system did not require a television to be played, as they could be played on the GamePad screen. However, most Wii U owners agreed that the GamePad had one good feature going for it: Off-TV Play. There were many reasons for this, but one of the more commonly cited ones was that its GamePad tablet controller failed to capture people's attention like the motion controls did for the Wii. The Wii U put Nintendo in a rough spot it followed up Nintendo's best-selling home console by being their worst-selling one, and became the company’s biggest flop since the Virtual Boy.
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