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the_dengle on 15 November 2013
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MikeRox said:


I'm glad you're so optimistic for the system. I don't see it. Pretty much all the big guns have already been thrown at the system.

Pretty much all the big guns had already been thrown at the DS by mid-2007. The thing about Nintendo's big guns is that they can be fired multiple times... especially their biggest gun. It took GameFreak almost 3 years to release the first real Pokemon game for 3DS. Now that they have the engine and most of the models in place, there'll be another pretty much every year for the remainder of its life.

There are a lot of weapons in Nintendo's armory aside from their big guns, too.

 

MikeRox said:


Obviously an 8m lead favours the 3DS. But I think $599, a weak 1st party lineup and inferior 3rd party software releases actually held the PS3 back in its earlier years. So although the 3DS is 8m ahead, I just don't see it maintaining that.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it won't happen, I'd just be surprised.

Wasn't the PS3 down to $499 before its first full year was over?

I don't know why anyone would be surprised to see a Nintendo handheld sell over 100 million. Just compare the 3DS to the PSP, which had sold under 20 million total by the end of its second full year. I wouldn't doubt in a million years that the 3DS will stay well ahead of the PSP, unless Nintendo cuts its life short -- which they have even less motivation to consider doing while their home console is struggling so much.