I have to put a lot of the blame for low selling software on the developers and publishers themselves. If you look at the titles that were released the majority of the games were ports or cheaply built. Even Ghost Recon from UbiSoft built from the ground up for 3DS while it was pretty fun you could tell it shouldn't have cost much to develop and the team wouldn't have to have been that big.
Honestly third parties dropped the ball by failing to give consumers high quality software. Of those 76 games how many of them are actually known? Then from those are known how many are ports? Then after you take out ports how many of those titles are actually high quality software?
Honestly the 3DS was an epic fail by both Nintendo and third parties. The launch line-up was way to weak for the asking price and third parties couldn't sell software because lets face it the majority of their software is complete shit.
Assasins Creed was one of the only third party games I thought had a lot of promise. But its cancellation leaves me with little hope for third parties in the future.
Another big reason for the lack of third party sales is launching too many of these crappy games. Instead of launching 7 shitty games maybe the company should focus on say 2 higher quality titles. Right now less is better since unlike DS which has like 150-million users buying software the 3DS only has nearly 7. Yet developers have launched similar amounts of software to DS though at a low quality!
I think third parties would be smart to begin investing in fewer titles and focusing on quality to ensure the games are actually capable of competing with the likes of Nintendo. If all the major publishers green lit 2 games for 2012 the line-up would be amazing and I think the publishers would make more money.
What do you think do you want 7 games like Whipe Out or do you want 2 games like Street Fighter or Nintendo's quality level titles?
-JC7
"In God We Trust - In Games We Play " - Joel Reimer
