Would the DS and 3DS have sold the same with out Touch Screen and 3D capabilities?

[oniyide]

justinian said:

oniyide said:

spurgeonryan said:

DieAppleDie said:
i meant NO (wth happened here...)

Huh? The 3DS will survive on games and games alone. Nintendo needs to not push the 3D like they did with the touch screen. But since it has a touch screen as well it is good to go.

the thing is they were pushing the 3d at the beginning, but it became clear that most people didnt give a damn. Which is why it didnt sell as well as they thought it would which is why they havent been pushing it

I could be wrong but the DS also started "poorly" and everyone at the time were saying it wasn't selling well because people weren't interested in the touchscreen - or didn't care for it. What happened after is history.

The first DS sold - if sources are reliable  - 6.5m in the first seven or eight months. The 3DS sold 3.5m in just over one month after the Japanese launch. The 3DS also was $100 more expensive at launch.

Maybe they are not pushing 3D because like the touchscreen Nintendo will give it a couple years and maybe people will come around to it. Time will tell.

To answer the question regarding the DS: NO. I think without touchscreen PSP would have wiped the floor with the DS.

It is harder to give an answer regarding the 3DS. Nintendo had to do something new. I think just another same ole DS would have got customers thinking they were being milked. It's all about new ideas and new technologies.

I think without 3D, DS sales would have fallen drastically.

 

 

 

Thats all well and good, but the fact is that Ninty was expecting 3DS to do much better, whether that was because they thought the 3D would do it, it following the success of DS or both. But it did not meet their intial expectations