Why is Japan not buying the 3DS? Goo investigates!

[Demotruk]

M.U.G.E.N said:

3DS isn't off to the greatest of starts. Following early sellouts, the system has dropped under the 20,000 mark and sells half as many units as the PSP.

So why aren't people buying Nintendo's new system? As part of a survey conducted last month, Goo Research asked its monitors the reason they haven't bought the 3DS. It posted the results of the 1,110 person (39.5% male, 60.5% female) survey at Goo Ranking today.

Here's the top 20:

• 1. Price is high/waiting for a price drop
• 2. Satisfied by DS/DSi
• 3. Worried about eye strain
• 4. Worried about getting sick from the screen
• 5. Few launch titles
• 6. Will buy once a game I want is released
• 7. Satisfied by cell phone and smartphone games
• 8. Satisfied by PSP
• 9. The battery is weak
• 10. It's heavy and I don't feel like carrying it with me
• 11. Can't play Game Boy Advance games
• 12. The color I want isn't available
• 13. Can't play Game Boy games
• 14. I'll save my money for NGP, thank you very much
• 15. Waiting for a version with a larger screen
• 16. Because you can't move your DSi Points over
• 17. The buttons layout looks hard to use
• 18. No Famicom/NES in the Virtual Console
• 19. The zoom view for DS games is hard on the eyes
• 20. Waiting until my friend buys it

3DS did much better in a previous ranking. In March, a month after the system was released, Goo conducted a general internet poll asking "What game system will you buy next?". 3DS came out on top then, receiving 14,668 votes compared to NGP's 5,200.

http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2011/06/01/goo_3ds_survey/

as all polls, accuracy of these things are doubtful. But thought it was an interesting read, especially on how the eye strain issue ranked so high, didn't expect that

That depends on the kind of poll. You could possibly do with a larger sample for a country of 120 million (but actually 1100 is pretty ok) but if it's representative then there's nothing wrong with it. You just need to know how the poll was carried out.