SaviorX said:
the_dengle said:
SaviorX said:
The 3DS needs software just as badly as Vita does. For the 2nd year straight, Nintendo is relying on a Mario to keep sales above 'subpar', while bringing nothing else of value over from Japan or by releasing timed-exclusive games for the West. Nintendo of America has been absolutely terrible for going on 3 years. To be honest, even if Japan's major hits would not sell more than 250k here, that is still ~250k Nintendo is not making profit from.
I personally haven't purchased a 3DS and do not plan on it because of this. Their strategy just screams tired.
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The best-selling 3DS game in the West released this year is Kid Icarus: Uprising. Not a Mario game. Not a timed exclusive. Next in America is Resident Evil, a 3rd-party title. Soon, Kingdom Hearts 3D will join those two.
So far this year, Nintendo has released only a single Mario game in the West, and it hasn't sold very well. What's keeping the 3DS "above subpar" is mostly strong third-party support. The console would continue selling "above subpar" for the rest of the year without Mario games; instead, it will sell like hotcakes.
As of NoA, I am aware of only one first-party 3DS game that isn't being localized this year: Fire Emblem. It's coming next year, so hold your horses. NoA doesn't decide what games get localized, anyway; NoJ does.
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You know exactly what I am talking about. It is clear as day that Kid Icarus will not be responsible for selling 3DS this year. That responsibiltiy lies on NSMB2. By timed exclusive, there are games in Japan like Monster Hunter 3G and the aforementioned Fire Emblem that are available in Japan, but nowhere else. The West needs a major game to release in the same fashion, but that game is Mario again in 2 weeks.
MK7 and SM3DLand released late 2011
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But those two games you mentioned are not popular in the US anyway, they never were. I dont think MH or FE boosted any hardward when released in the US, so how do you expect those to help out 3DS if released in the US?? Whether they get released day and date of the Japanese ones, is irrelevant if most people dont care. What 3DS needs more of is the games that made DS real popular, it already got the Mario Kart which is doing well. Nintendogs didnt do much, needs a cooking mama and Pokemon
