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chocoloco on 16 August 2012
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Mandalore76 said:
chocoloco said:

I do not see why any consumer looking out for themselves would not "want as much as they can get for as little expenditure." This is a basic law of biology and energy conservation. This is also something that is normal in thought processes, so it is a stupid statement to expect a consumer to be looking out for a company.


No, but like the saying goes, you get what you pay for.  A consumer downloading a 99 cent app is only going to get 99 cents worth of content because the developer is likewise putting in as little expenditure as possible.  A consumer who frequents the eShop on 3DS is a dedicated video gamer looking for more bang for his buck.  The point is that the majority of people downloading 99 cent apps aren't eating into the sales of a dedicated handheld system, because they were never in the market for those types of games in the first place.

Yeah. but I can also download emulators that play tons of free games for free or for minimal cost if your like me: gameboy, virtual boy, atari, neo geo, nintendo, genisis, sega cd, super nintendo, N64, gam boy advance and color, psp and ds just to nome the ones that I remember. About to play my old favorite, I never finished super mario rpg after I beat Pokemon Emerald, or perhaps final fantasy VI as I never played the Nintendo FFs. In the market place it has minecraft, world of goo, Dead Space, The DarK Knight rise, and even freaken uno just at quick look that are in depth games. Mobile platform are getting new stuff in the market place all the time that are more elaborate games like on dedicated portables and consoles. Not to mention tons of fun free games with just adds. Many games may be simple, but the tablet just does more than dedicated portables and provides tons of games especially if you use emulators. I just see more and more people discovering this and seeing the dedicated portables  as giving less with more expenditure. I ride the wave of the future, hopefully Sony and Nintendo do too before they are left too far behind.