Project Cafe/3DS and the abandoning of the consumer

[Mr Khan]

Smashchu2 said:

Mr Khan said:

The 3DS has the other handhelds in their maturity to fight with. Especially in Japan (which is what these charts are addressing), where the PSP does essentially what the 3DS does (delivering console-esque titles in handheld form) for less and with a far broader library at the moment.

Maturity means less sales. Consoles peak in their 3rd year, which the PSP is long since past.

But you said it yourself. Maybe there is no reason to buy a 3DS when the PSP does the same thing cheaper. Maybe the 3DS will just flop as people buy PSPs instead.

In Japan, for the moment. It's obvious 3DS will be getting the kind of titles PSP gets, and PSP support will diminish over time, then 3DS will have the edge the PSP currently has over the NGP: a rounder library of similar intent and cheaper in all likelihood

Which is again where this argument fails. It's snapshot mentality