I think this will kill off Nintendo in the handheld business. It's THAT big of a mistake. And I like Nintendo, but that's just the truth. Customers in gaming won't stand for this tiny of a lifecycle, and they pushed 3DS XL hard recently, so they just burned the shit out of a ton of people who for the most part won't buy one of these. That fractures the userbase.
The absolute smartest thing they could do right now is cancel the N3DS and refund everyone, but they won't of course. The longer this plays out (poor support for N3DS, but diverting resources from supporting everyone who has a 3DS/3DSXL), the worse things will get for them.
I have no idea how they could be so stupid. Naming the WiiU the "WiiU", bringing out a "New" 3DS shortly after a revised 3DS (in a market with no real competition in dedicated gaming handhelds! WHAT?), attaching a costly tablet and low specs to their gen8 console (which made the price higher than people were willing to pay for a 'casual' console), it's just too much.
This will be the nail in the coffin of current NOJ leadership, but the question now is : "Is it too late for Nintendo to recover?" Because there's absolutely no way this ends well for Nintendo, the N3DS disaster will make the WiiU look like the Wii in terms of failure/success ratio.
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