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megaman79 on 24 March 2011
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naznatips said:


I assume that ridiculous mess of a response (1/) was you trying to say that because people in Japan are buying Nintendogs and Cats that's not true, but the Japanese market has nothing to do with my statement. I fully expect the muchless smartphone gaming focused Japanese market to buy the 3DS as much as the DS, or nearly at least. It's the western market where you'll have trouble convincing people who buy $1 brain training games on an iPhone to buy a 3DS (2/).

PS: I should get some kinda medal for translating your response.

1/ 3D Televisions selling for three grand are a problem for the average consumer, but people went to see Avatar. 3D is popular enough with the masses.

2/ I don't know whether you can say that without quantifying your statement with evidence. The fact is software attach rates for the DS have been fine for the last few years, so no. And I don't see how well a $1 game argument sits with anyone anymore, Kinect sold for $100 to 10 Million people last Christmas, despite all those Wii's on the market.

note - I agree with you that Nintendo are going back to a blue ocean market, previously red, because the app. gamer has taken development priority over DS, but I wouldn't say its dead and buried for Nintendo either.



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.