A few years ago, mobile gaming used to be dominated by two companies: Nintendo and Sony. Nintendo had its seemingly unstoppable juggernaut of its Nintendo DS handheld, which in turn built on the company’s Game Boy empire. Just like most people don’t carry around separate cameras and media players anymore, most don’t carry around gaming devices either.

Can Sony and Nintendo survive in a portable gaming world dominated by smartphones and tablets?
According to Flurry (which bases its analysis on figures from market research firm NPD), in 2009 Sony and Nintendo’s portable gaming platforms reaped 81 percent of the software revenue in the portable gaming market. In 2011, Flurry estimates that will drop to 42 percent, with Android and iOS (combined) accounting for the remaining 58 percent of portable gaming software sales.

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