3DS doing a lot better, but marketing still clumsy.

[Alby_da_Wolf]

RolStoppable said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

Because not every missed DSi XL sale could automagically become a 3DS sale: there are people that actually want a DSi XL and wait for it to drop enough in price because they are just interested in a DS with bigger screen, but cheaper than what it was before the unofficial drop (for example I'm not into portable gaming, but I was interested in a XL for non gaming applications, like interactive cookbooks, particularly those that help you to decide what to prepare given the list of ingredients you have available, but now it's too late, I almost decided to switch from my old dumbphone to a cheap Android smartphone and I'll get such apps on it). Consumer electronics prices are expected to drop, but Ninty always kept XL price high, everything else dropped except it, this worked as long as it was Ninty's top end portable, but now, with 3DS drop, that pricing couldn't work as well anymore, and it also risked confusing buyers: it didn't actually happen, but what if retailers stuck to Ninty official pricing and potential buyers found on the shelves 3DS and next to it DSi XL a few euros more expensive? Some of them could have even delayed any purchase, thinking the older model was about to drop price. Having actually dropped, people can mentally position and evaluate each model better.

I concede that cases like yours exist, but you can't honestly believe that there are enough people who think similarly for it to actually have an impact on DS sales. If you have any numbers we can work with, then it might be worthwile to continue this discussion, but otherwise it really isn't.

Yes, I agree, that's why I wrote in another post that there must be many concurring factors, and I can just imagine very few of them.

The only numbers we have are both 3DS and DS growing during that 3DS ads campaign, despite no big recent launches for DS, but as you pointed out, these are just a few clues, we'd need at least as detailed EMEAA HW numbers as Media Create does in Japan to be able to say something more and, above all, have at least a less vague idea of how much the factors we can identify could weigh.