| loves2splooge said: I think Nintendo are getting pretty cocky right now. The 3DS will most likely debut at $250 US, which is still way too expensive. Systems are always priced a good bit lower in the states than in Japan so it`s not a straight rate conversion (so I strongly doubt we`ll see a $300 US 3DS). For the hardcore Nintendo fans 15 plus (the minority) , I think many of them will be willing to put down $250. Some obviously aren`t given the response we`ve seen online. But many would. For Nintendo fans under 15, it`s doubtful that their soccer moms will buy a $250 handheld for them. Without the `Nintendo kid` and `soccer mom` demographics, Nintendo is screwed. You can`t rely on only the hardcore 15 Nintendo crowd. Even the Game Cube had to rely on kids to get the support it got and it was the 3rd place console in the west that gen. |
you sir, are an ignorant.A chunk of the handheld nintendo market, the largest part , is composed of previous nintendo owners.GB, GBC, and GBA, who then got DS and obviously look foward the 3ds.If you look at the sales of gb or gba you can tell the portion of market that moved is into the dozens of millions, with the ds adding a little extra casual padding.Kids that didnt play gba, and gb(under 15 crowd) ARE NOT nintendos target, they are sonys hope, because they have no brand loyalty or tradition with nintendo.So dont label that huge chunk of grown up people as minority. 2ndly, for the moms and dads, well, they spend 300-because its the cool thing to own and peer pressure -on iphones for their kids, so that didnt stop them.Also, the similar pricing didnt stop parents from getting psps for their kids.Kids make their parents buy that stuff.Trust me, if a kid made a parent get them a psp for 250 5 years ago, 50 dollars arent gonna make a difference in 2011.
