I think the missing launch games and the severe lack of features promised: Netflix, 3D Nintendo channel, Virtual console, etc... are why no one wants to buy it right now. It needs more than a port of a remake of a 3 year old game and Nintendogs in order to show people how interesting it is. Maybe if it launched with Avatar as a movie, and Star Fox 64 in 3D using the spot on motion controls to aim, people would be able to show their friends the potential. Right now, nothing is nearly as impressive as the stuff shown at trade shows, so the general public is not seeing the impact.
For example, why are they STILL releasing 3DS videos to the Internet, and not actually to the 3DS so we can view the videos in 3D and show our friends and co-workers? That doesn't make any sense to me, and seems very foolish from an advertisement perspective. It's like skipping out on the coming attractions at the theatre, and instead just showing short previews on TV.
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