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Kaizar on 10 May 2014
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bouzane said:
Kaizar said:

O was

bouzane said:
It's simply not worth the investment. That doesn't mean that it isn't great for playing games, it just isn't a wise business strategy.


Neither is The DS & Wii & 3DS.

And look what that got us, the Smartphones & Tablets we have today, plus 3D Movies doing the inward effect instead of that pop-out gimmick they did in older 3D movies less then 5 years.


Despite the fact that the WiiMote is a dead trend and 3D isn't exactly taking the world by storm they are at least cheap to produce. This is more than can be said about the WiiU gamepad. It is simply too expensive and seeing that Sony didn't s**t the bed with the PS4 like they did with its predecessor Nintendo needs to be able to capitalize on far lower prices to remain competitive. They are unable to do so because of the gamepad so my point still stands. It was simply a poor investment.


For the record about 3D:

The 3DS is selling about as much each week as the PS4.

3D TVs have always sold better then HD TVs during same point in life spam, even with increase in price these past 2 to 3 years for any 3D TV. And the Year on Year sales are still up every year.

More then most people choose 3D screenings over 2D screenings (especially outside of America). Just look at Avatar in 2010 making 70% of its profit from 3D screenings in America, but then Gravity in 2013 hit 80% in America for 3D screenings. But 3D screenings always get 88% in all other Countries combine for non-USA screenings.

If anything, no one is buying HD from TVs to caring to go to theaters for HD to buying PS3/360 over Wii. The PS3 sold to 30 to 50 million different individuals, and so did the 360, but the Wii sold to 100 million different households, which is one system per several individuals.

HD has always been a pure marketing adverstising branding thing that couldn't sell that well. I mean there's a 50 year gap between color TVs release and HD TVs release, but 3D TVs had only a several year gap between them and HD TVs.