The 3DS is missing one key thing

[Khuutra]

twesterm said:

Khuutra said:

So you would also see how that's not a qualification for calling something a "key feature", regardless of how important it is to you.

Absolutely not, I admit it's an overly important feature for me but that doesn't mean it's a throw away feature.  There's no denying that achievements help sell game and encourage players to play more games.  They help people actually complete a single player game which mean less wasted work and they encourage people to play multiplayer games longer which means people keeping games longer and people have more people to play with.

While achievements aren't important to other people as they are to me, that doesn't make them any less important overall.  Games are still fine without them but with them they're even better.

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I hate false dichotomies. I never claimed that cheevos are a throwaway feature, just that they are not a key component to general sales trends (and you're cripplingly unable to prove otherwise).

Your whole original point is that cheevos are a key feature. They aren't.

Now don't get me wrong, I like them - I'm apparently a lot more serious abotu cheevos in games I like than you are - but they are ont in the neighborhood of "key".