| RolStoppable said: As has been pointed out, this article was posted after several crucial and obvious details were already known. 1) The 3DS had received a 10,000 Yen and $/€80 price cut. 2) Mario Kart 7 and Super Mario 3D Land were set for a holiday release. 3) Nintendo had secured Monster Hunter exclusivity. |
You're forgetting Vita had a call of duty and AC on the way, and obviously back then we didn't know the former was gonna be horse shit and the latter just OK.
COD actually managed to sell a million units with 33 on metacritic(i.e. all the bad press in the world)... imagine if it was actually good and tied into the PS3 version? It would of sold at least 2 million and it would of been a system seller.
Resistance also turned out to be terrible, and though it'd never be as impactful as COD it could of trebled the existing figure and sold some systems if it was good.
A lot expected a GTA as well, and if COD and AC were more successful there'd be a higher chance of seeing it.
It still wouldn't of outsold 3DS, but it'd be far from doomed and therefore "succeeding".
