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oniyide on 10 August 2012
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spurgeonryan said:
oniyide said:
Nice article and goddamn at the interest for 3DS in US, wow. Here's a fun exercise, think back to the Game Boy, how much of the games did people actually play that wasnt Nintendo or Tetris(which was bundled anyway), what about GBC, Advance?? IMHO I actually think it has gotten better. Since GBA and up 3rd party games have been selling well for the most part on their portables, not sure whats going on with 3DS, but its still young


Being a kid at the time I played many different types of games. Same thing with my Game boy color and Snes and even Nes until it was stolen. My Parents just bought whatever, and I asked for a variety of games. I do the same thing for my kids now days. I want them to have the full experience instead of just playing Mario and some other first party game.

Naruto, Dragon Quest, Viewtiful Joe, Picross, CoD Modern Warfare, etc. They have DSXL's.

 

I assume that is where most of the games sales for the Wii and DS were going. Parents saw some games near the check out at KMart or some other department store and they bought them for their kids.

 

Now that I typed all of that I am not even sure what we are talking about. I lost myself. I was at gamestop today though and I took a picture of their wall of wii games and 3DS games. A bunch of 3rd party games there. Even the 3DS is building up a nice little stack of games I have never heard of before.

Good for you, good parenting.  I know back then at least for me I didnt really care if a game was 3rd party or not. As long as it was good, however I know from what i saw, if you had a GB you had, Tetris, a mario, a pokemon, maybe a Zelda and thats about it. Im not trying to be faciteous but thats literally what most people played on their GBs back then.   As for Kmart thats exactly why those games sell. cheap entertainment to pacify your kids

Yeah 3DS is getting a nice stack(funny considering you have been complaining so much about no games coming to 3DS ;) ) but it anyone BUYING them, thats the question.