| the_dengle said:
Basically, although the 3DS is really struggling to push strong hardware sales in the West, saturation is not the cause of its struggles in those regions the way it is in Japan. So... their explanation is reasonable, but still tastes kind of sour. You're going to deny us a better product because most of our neighbors still haven't bought your old one? Alright I guess... |
Lack of software is the problem.
New or old won't really matter this holiday (hence why they are sticking with old) when there's nothing to really push the system and set it apart from its predecessor (would they even have time to meet stock requests for the thing by the holidays? They can't even seemingly keep up with Japan on XLs). Why adopt/buy the new hardware when all you want is Pokemon or Layton? Any sales of the n3DS from second adoption likely won't change if they did it now or later, and may even go up if they schedule it with actual software to make use of the system in some form or another. And anyone who cares enough about not-Pokemon and the finer details of the new system, already knows the n3DS is coming out. The holidays will be selling to people who don't care/suckers (desperate times, eh?).
I mean, what would you even do with the n3DS right now that can't wait a few months? My XL has a murderously infuriating screen tear (from my dropping it) but it plays everything already just fine. No real incentive aside from hard damage to my system exists at the moment. But, come MH or Xenoblade? You could drum up actual worthwhile promotional moves with that.
There's also the fact that I think Iwata wants to avoid ever launching like how the 3DS/WiiU launched.
