If you're going to charge $250 for a handheld gaming device and expect it to sell monumentally, you need to have software available that consumers would have rushed to buy had it been on a different platform.
Consumers appear to be saying the 3DS does not currently have $250 worth (plus the price of the games themselves) of compelling games.
For some that may only be one or two games. For others it may mean more games than they can reasonably afford to buy along with the console. But I seriously doubt anyone's buying one to play Pilot Wings, Nintendogs or SSFIV.
Even as a Day 1 3DS adopter, I'm inclined to agree that the 3DS does not have the games to really warrant the purchase of a new platform. The only game I've been playing on mine is SSFIV and mainly because it was $25 with a credit, it's right there, so I may as well play it. But I definitely did not need to buy a 3DS to play SSFIV.
