This piece explores the recent development of the market, guided by Omdia’s brand-new Games Handheld Database, which forecasts value, volume, and installed base through to 2028 across all key devices and categories of dedicated gaming handheld.
Following the success of 2017’s Nintendo Switch, dedicated handheld gaming has rebounded. Handheld gaming has since transformed from what used to be distinctive hardware served almost entirely by a library of exclusive software, toward devices that sit adjacent to existing market segments of console, PC, and mobile.