I can't help but notice that the 3DS was selling relatively poorly at $250 and is now selling at a similar rate to how the DS was selling at a similar point last year (which could be termed monstrously well). What this seems to imply to me is that people actually did want the 3DS but didn’t want to pay $250 for it; and I’m really starting to wonder whether people don’t like the idea of a $250 dedicated portable gaming system in-general.
About the only people I ever see making direct comparisons between smartphones and tablets and handheld gaming devices are on dedicated forums, and I tend to think that people see these as very different products; similar to how people tend not to make direct comparisons between PCs and Consoles in real life. Even then, the fact that a $500 smartphone sells amazingly well when it has been subsidized down to $100 or $200 by the phone company doesn't necessarily mean that people will see the $250/$300 PSV as a deal.
It should be interesting to see what happens ...
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