zarx said:
Smashchu2 said:
Mr Khan said:
Smashchu2 said:
Mr Khan said:
These Malstrom inspired unfoundedly negative threads are giving me migraines. Cherry pick a few games and statistics, declare that this defines Nintendo's entire direction, then declare doom
It's just as asinine as the people earlier in the generation who cherry-picked Nintendo's casual moves and declared that they abandoned the core. It's the same damn thing just from a different perspective
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What statistics are they cherry picking? Is it that Net income is down 66%. Is it that Sony has more games in the top 15 in Japan since the DS launched (9 to 8). Is it the one where the 3DS is selling below expectations. Or maybe the one where Nintendogs did not being in Wii customers and is not selling anywhere near the first one. Or maybe the one where the PSP is outselling the 3DS.
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and where does the tale of the DS itself factor into all of this? Taking a snapshot of the market and using it to make declarations of broader trends is cherry-picking at its core
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Cherry picking is selective attention. it would be looking at a few things and ignoring the rest. But I was easily able to come up with many things that are going wrong and showing this system is doing poorly. I have yet to hear why this system is doing well. But you mentioned the DS, so let's look at it.
The DS had a worse line up of Games than the 3DS and had very strong compition from the PSP. It was thought that Sony would take the handheld market. The 3DS has Nintendogs (the sequel to the system that made the DS) is selling to a warm market and has no compeition. By all of this, the 3DS should be doing far better.
There are far to many stats to show that this isn't doing well. But how about we look at the sales charts.
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That is Japan and the earthquake has had a large impact as well as the fact that DS was a holliday launch and had Warioware touched and Super Mario 64 DS.
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Iwata himself has mentioned that sales are low in both the US and Europe where there was no earthquake. Just this week, the PSP outsold the 3DS in Europe.
