IGN: The 3DS Drought is Over (So Stop Complaining)

[lestatdark]

RolStoppable said:

lestatdark said:

Well, the DS then also had a lot of nice-to-have and not must-have for the people that didn't want to get the DS as well xD. 

Now that was a handheld with a first year drought.

At this point in the lifecycle I owned seven or eight DS games, but I only own two 3DS games. The DS started terribly, but it still outpaced the atrocious 3DS. Of course there's an onslaught of games coming in November/December, so the 3DS actually isn't that much worse, but rather equal.

But still, considering the circumstances, it's shameful for the 3DS.

I owned 0 games for the DS and only started owning a DS game after the onslaught of JRPGs that the handheld had. Fact is, the 3DS has games that appeal to people, maybe not in the same fashion that the DS had, but the games are there. 

Nintendo's mistake with the 3DS at launch was relying too much on the third parties, expecting them to actually release the games they were planning to release in the first months of the console and that backfired on them. Even so, they've corrected their hand and the next months are filled with Nintendo's first party games in a bigger fashion that the DS had for the same time frame as well.