| scottie said: Regardless, I still don't see the logic. Do you honestly think that statistically significant numbers of people will refuse to buy a console because it has bad games on? No, people buy consoles based on the number of games they like, not on the absence of games they dislike, nor on the ratio of games they like: games they dislike. |
Can't agree more! DS might have been known for selling to kids/parents, I'm happy to have bought it for FFTA2, Advance Wars, Ace Attorney and the likes. Good titles alone make the purchase of a system worthy, however your perception/support for that system in general (I recently decided to buy a Wii just for Xenoblade, although I pretty much hate Wii and what it represents). Furthermore, the general image of the 3DS right now is marked with Zelda, Dead or Alive, Resident Evil, Metal Gear, etc. it doesn't even remotely look like a casual system even though advertising tries (wrongly) to suggest so. And Nintendo very well know they have to keep the balance so there shouldn't a problem for this particular aspect. The biggest problem is that the recent lack of strong releases on Wii/DS (absence of Ninokuni, Fire Emblem and the games targeted by Operation Rainfall) might have angered gamers and roused defiance against Nintendo in general, but again I don't see it affect 3DS sales that much either : people will always want to play good games when they see them.
