Carl2291 said:
http://m.uk.gamespot.com/news/more-3ds-models-would-confuse-gamers-says-nintendo-6384793 http://www.awesomegames.co.uk/why-the-nintendo-3ds-leaves-consumers-confused Just a few links, there are many more. The consumer gets confused pretty easily. |
Ok, I'm going to explain things to you very simply. It may come off as condescending, but I am simply doing this because some forum members get confused very easily.
The first link you provided states "The possibility of Nintendo manufacturing a new 3DS model outside of the 3DS XL is slim. During a recent shareholder meeting (attended and translated by Andriasang), Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said the Mario factory currently has "no plans" in the near future for new models of the portable. This decision, he said, was based in part on an estimation that consumers would be "confused" if there were too many choices."
So the fact that Iwata states that there should be at most 2 versions of the 3DS to avoid confusion is being used to imply that the Wii should have at most 1 version? It does not even touch upon the similarity between the DS and the 3DS, and can thus not realte to the Wii U sounds like Wii argument you are trying to put forward. This is not consumers not knowing what name corresponds to what product, it's consumers getting confused by there being multiple products and them being confused as to which is best for them.
The 2nd link is an opinion piece from some random blogger. He provides no facts, no data, nothing to support his argument. If I were to be swayed by this second link, I would have been swayed by your original post.
The 3rd link is a perfect example of why you are wrong. Nobody knows things untill they are taught them. You or I will find out about the 3DS, and that it is a new console from a gaming forum. 'The average consumer' will post on about.com, and they received a well written answer that explained it to them. So all you proved with this link was that, from our sample size of 2 people, 100% of them know that the 3DS is a new console. Due to the low sample size, this is not quite PROOF that I am right, but it is pretty good evidence in my favor.
The 4th has all the problems of the 2nd, and it doesn't even mention the fact that the 3DS and DS have similar names. It mentions that they look similar, which again, hasn't stopped people from knowing about iphone versions, nor is it even relevant to the WiiU, where the box has a big tablet thing on the front that is bigger than the console itself.
