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greenmedic88 on 03 April 2011
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Albion said:
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Sure there is a place for candy, but they're never going to take the place of a full meal.


You obviously have yet to meet Willy Wonka. Anyways, the only problem I see is if  the raising cost of game development for the "core" consoles is outpacing the growth in userbase.

And that's really the problem.

Opinions will vary, but is there a growing market for $40 portable games, particularly when they aren't all big budget titles (but still cost $40 retail) and there are alternatives for those who don't carry portable game systems but do always have that smartphone on hand?

I can't speak for anyone but myself, but for me to spend $40 on a portable game, either it's something I'm going to be playing for hours like a regular console game, or it will have to offer something pretty unique.



3DS is unique.  It has 3D lol

http://articles.cnn.com/2011-02-15/tech/lg.optimus.3d_1_google-s-android-smartphone-nintendo-s-3ds?_s=PM:TECH

And the only game I bought for the 3DS was SSFIV and that's only because Amazon gave out a $25 credit for use with one of the initial titles.

None of those initial games were worth $40 to me, and I can say this as someone who really likes the 3D capabilities.



Will the smart phone be gettting Super Mario Worlds in 3D?

If yes Ill think really hard about maybe buying it. >.<

 

The games will come. I know right now the games suck.

Ridge racer is about the only game worth getting. But this is Nintendo and therea 110 games already planed for this year.     So what the big fuss ?

Nintendo will always have a built in consumer base for their own in house developed games.

That will never go away unless they somehow manage to do a repeat of Sega, which took an entire series of less than successful platforms to drop them out of the hardware/platform business (Sega CD, 32X, Saturn with the final nail in the coffin being the Dreamcast, killed prematurely only due to the success of the PS2).

But Nintendo published games aren't the most important niche of games to anyone who isn't a devoted Nintendo fan, so it's a bit of a non-issue to anyone who isn't.

Anyone can feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here, but I don't think anyone buys any non-Nintendo hardware with the idea in mind that they're going to be playing Mario World, Mario Kart or Pokemon on it.

Personally, I don't care much for the portable versions of Nintendo's mainstay IPs. All of the games on the 3DS that have been announced so far that I plan to buy are 3rd party. I can always hope for another Advance Wars by Nintendo, but I didn't exactly buy a 3DS to play games that haven't even been announced yet.