Mr Khan said:
Even by the standards of "GameCube style" thinking, 3DS doesn't have much worth selling the hardware. Nintendo was in a state of early-PS3 style arrogance to believe that they could sell the thing without major titles, but at the same time weren't entirely wrong (they just greatly overestimated the amount of units you could push thus) Nintendo's not going to make the same mistake with a console unless their arrogance has clouded them entirely, since they've been known to play it a little looser with handhelds (and remember DS launched with a glorified port as well, and where it went) Time is needed, time to see what sort of games Nintendo has planned in the long haul (which should become apparent at E3 as to which direction they're going to pursue as far as 3DS development is concerned), and time to see how the market receives the device when it starts getting real distinctive software period |
Exactly there is not much worth to sell the 3DS, the problem, is that there is little sign that this will change in the future, while its true that the DS launched poorly, there were still brewings at the time of Nintendo's direction that would eventually result in the DS becoming a success, its expanded audience reach, its desire to battle disinterest in gaming, there is no such sign here, rather there is a sign that Nintendo is going in the direction of past mistakes (Contrary to belief, adding in a nintendogs game doesn;t make it a system that battles disinterest and expands the market, people's aren't stupid, they can undestand the direction a company is going in).
The market is clearly showing its lack of faith in the 3DS going forward, and E3 will likely showthat this lack of faith is justified.
