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NintendoPie on 01 February 2012
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RolStoppable said:
NintendoPie said:
RolStoppable said:
The 3DS needs the recently announced 2D Mario game as soon as possible. All doubts in the platform need to be erased.

From the comments on here not many people have doubts in it anymore. Everyone is saying that its great its great its doing well, which it is doing well. 

That 2D Mario doesn't need to be released until Spring... It actually must come out before the Wii U so it won't side-track potential Wii U customers. My Holiday 2D Mario for the 3DS prediction has been erased I now predict it will come out Spring to early Fall of this year or Holiday of next year.

It's not important what people on this forum say. It's about third parties who constantly doubt the longevity and viability of a Nintendo system.

Then again, I have to say something to the people on here who say that the 3DS is doing great: No, it's not. You just got used to the pitiful Japanese hardware charts of the last couple of years. The DS was pushing 150k units per week on average and it could have been more, if it hadn't been for production shortages. The 3DS isn't even close at this point. There's no time for Nintendo to take it easy yet, there's still a lot of work waiting ahead.

I never said Nintendo needed to take it easy. The truth is they don't, like you said, they should always be working and keeping their guard up. Nintendo is stepping out of their own little world into a broader area. They are trying to get into online better, making HD, and competing head on with the other three companys. They do need to keep striving for better and better because the other companys are becoming real competators. Last gen Nintendo had the new thing, this gen they really don't. They still have their Popular Franchises but not the magnitude of innovation like last generation. So yes, they cant slouch.

No one was comparing the 3DS's sales to the DS's. If you do look at it that way though they don't look as impresive. They are for sure better than what it was doing though and compared to all the other consoles in Japan the 3DS is leading.