Kenryoku_Maxis said:
No its not as easy as I said. And while PSP was overpriced and lacked games at launch, it has a marginal battery life which got better with each version (my current PSP 3000 lasts about 5-6 hours while playing intense games like Crisis Core and Pangya). But while I was making a joke, there was that grain of truth. And what I was trying to point out is people are calling doom on the 3DS when EVERY handheld that has ever released has had a slow launch. The GB launched with just a handful of games and took quite a while to get going (especially because it was over $200 at launch). The GBA launched with 1 noteworthy game (Golden Sun) and also took a while to get good games. And the DS was probably the weakest launch for a handheld this side of the N-Guage. But it still turned out to be the most popular system since the PS2. My point is, people need to stop claiming the 3DS failed just because it hasn't sold a million units in the first week. No handheld has. And when the horde of announced games starts coming out, like Zelda 3D, Kid Icarus, Resident Evil, Dead or Alive, Metal Gear Solid and Paper Mario, the 3DS will start selling just as good as the DS. Even with a $250 price tag (which was the same price as the PSP at launch). And in a year or two, the price will drop to $200 or less and sell even more. |
Sorry, but no. Gameboy had an excellent launch, with demand easily outstripping supply, with great games, Tetris, Super mario Land, Gennis and baseball most notably, and at $90, not 200. So the question is, why have terrible launches for the next handhelds? But that's another topic.
Also, the reason I would agree with those people is that the 3DS seems to be following the philosophy of the PSP. So if we were to take current DS and PSP sales, the 3DS would sell less than half of it's predecessor. Count in that Nintendo wants to expand the gaming audience supposedly, and you can quickly see why the 3DS, in that sense, will be a failure.
