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Phoeniks.Wright on 28 July 2011
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RolStoppable said:
Bruno Muñoz said:

Don't you think that there is more to the 3DS debacle than meets the eye? Something like a now truly and palatable rejection of portable consoles, at least in the West by both industry and media. In Nintendo's case aggravated by a third-party publishers boycott, and I don't like conspiracy theories but in this case is what a honestly beleive after years of witnessing the market.

There is no rejection of portable consoles per se, there only is a rejection of portable consoles that try to be home consoles. If Nintendo wants the 3DS to be successful, then they better emulate the DS instead of the PSP. The market didn't change, but Nintendo did.

This price cut is only the first step to correct the 3DS. Now the games need to follow suit. This won't happen this year, but it's possible to make it happen next year. The question is if Nintendo really wants to save the 3DS or if they rather want to make Gamecube games.

If history showed us anything, it's that they would rather make GC games at all costs, even at the cost of destroying their game series, than to save the 3DS. Sure, they cut the price, which was overdue ever since it's launch, but there's serious doubt they want to make the correct games as well. Only when they'll be in deep shit will they actually do anything meaningfull, so we'll probably have to wait until a few months after the Wii U launch. 

Also, naming the mario game "super mario 3D land" just feels as though they're trying to make it seem like a "successor" to super mario land 1&2. As though a 3D mario can be a successor to 2D mario. Only way they could have made this stand out is if they had called it "super mario land 3D", but then it would sound like a super mario land remake in 3D.