VicViper on 26 November 2012
| DélioPT said: I don`t think a price drop would help them in the long run. If the games aren`t there - and they aren`t there - then a price cut effect would not last. To me there are two things 3DS needs: games and a redesign that makes it look completely different from how it looks. If people aren`t aware DS and 3DS will really look like a enhanced version of DS. Nintendo should have done this since the very beginning. |
The games are there. For the new user there's lots of evergreens already (mostly Mario though - but 3 big ones)
Price is mostly everything. Why do you think Japan responded so well to the price cut killing the DS into oblivion? Because they maintained the DSi price the same as the 3DS and the DSi XL the same as the 3DS XL. I don't buy this "consumers can't see one is better than the other theory", a lot of people just go to the cheaper one - if the cheapest one is the 3DS - hooray! At least close this price gap, imo. A 99 system against 169 will make a lot of people choose the former one - especially on holidays.
NIntendo of america and europe clearly wants to sell more DSs, while nintendo of Japan don't want to see its face anymore.
