Well Nintendo was worried that customers would be upset with them for cutting the 3DS price. They gave us the Ambassador program and such to try and calm all those angry early adopters. I myself am on the fence about whether it has calmed me down, but according to Japanese gaming website 4Gamer almost one third of 3DS owners regret their purchase. It would appear that the ambassador program isn't doing enough to stop the anger.

4Gamer polled 6,500 3DS owners to find out just whether or not gamers still had "Anger or Regret" buying their 3DS units after the recently announced ambassador program. It turns out Nintendo is right in being worried because nearly one third are royally pissed. The 4Gamer research didn't only ask how many gamers regretted or were upset about purchasing 3DS it went on to poll other questions. Such as

"49.4 percent of 3DS owners surveyed said that the current available games for the console were not adequate, and they felt "disappointed" with the system, even with the knowledge of future titles." - Gamasutra

"45.7 percent said that they were either not planning, or on the fence about buying upcoming titles Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7." - Gamasutra

Then 4Gamer polled all those who don't own 3DS currently and asked how many planned to buy one now that the price cut occured and only around 5% said they had intent to purchase.

Now if I were Nintendo I would be shaking in my boots, these results show that customers in Japan are royally pissed with how Nintendo has handled the 3DS launch. What do you think, are these numbers reliable? What about here in North America do you think we would have similiar results?

Should Nintendo be concerned by these surveys?

I don't know if those numbers are reliable.

But it's logical.
It dropped in price much quicker than expected.

Japan don't like Nintendo, and I think Nintendo is on the edge of the cliff about to get pushed over.

That's not good.

The main issue is the thing still doesn't have games and even the upcoming ones don't look all that great, I mean mario, a new link game and certainly pokemon will increase the sales but Nintendo has to do more then that this time

4Gamer polled 6,500 3DS owners out of around 1 million

It's quite expected. It was a big cut for a new handheld.

I think the best way to solve this is by Nintendo giving away free games to the people who bought or buys 3DS until the official price cut day.

yea like seece said 6,000 out of 1 million? I mean i know people do these types of poles all the time even with smaller numbers but thats a small percent of the userbase.

lol so?

Nintendo is DooOo0ed!!!


seriously though this dosent mean anything. its only people from that site. how do we know they own a system? what if they are fanboys who dislike Nintendo and therefore vote it down...

not long now until the price cut so we shall see how much it sells

The thing with polls like that is that disgruntled users are more likely to take part than content users. Thus, I feel that a (probably easy to manipulate) poll conducted by a website isn't very reliable.
But then, I'm just a normal guy and don't know anything.

I just know that I was not upset about the price cut. My brain tells me that I should be, but somehow I don't mind. Maybe the 20 free games (of which at least 10 I probably wouldn't even consider to buy, though...) had something to do with it, but I'm not sure.

I was more upset about the N64 price cut from 399 to 299 German Marks that happened only 8 weeks (!!) after the release back in 1997.