| Mr Khan said: The "revisionists," are the ones who are suddenly freaking out that the best-selling dedicated games device of all time with current market maturity and receiving continued support and price cuts is outselling the new, high-priced device that has not yet received its due share of support (though will be getting there quickly enough, as upcoming games lists can attest) This has happened before in the past, but suddenly it becomes a problem to the point where we're calling the successor dead on arrival nary two months since its release. That's revisionism at its finest |
I'm assuming you're not talking about the people who are comparing the launch-aligned performance of the two systems, and pointing out that the 3DS is lagging behind the DS at similar points in their lifetimes, notwithstanding the fact that one of the systems is the annointed successor to Nintendo's handheld line while the other was merely the "third pillar," whose success was so uncertain that Nintendo was working on the next Gameboy to continue its handheld dominance.
I assume instead that you're referring to people who are talking about how the legacy system is still running laps around the new system, even in Japan, notwithstanding the abundant oversupply of the 3DS. That is not the best method of analysis, no. Although while we're on the subject, two of the three big reasons for the 3DS' stumbling out of the gate were mentioned in passing. I'd like to point out that, much like the PS3, those problems were completely self-inflicted, which makes it difficult for me to feel too much sympathy.
