| Riverstyx said: Well if the standard for handheld's lifetime sales was 150m like the ds then sure. The 3ds is a failure, but it's not. The 3ds is far from a failure, the wonder swan, atari lynx, and gamecom were true failures. Does the 3ds belong with that company? No. Though, I will say the 3ds is pretty disappointing. I've played pretty much everything I've wanted to play on it and so far there isn't much on the horizon that interest me. |
Thing is, when it launched, the DS WAS the cool futuristic touchscreen gadget. Took normal phones three years to steal the idea, and then touchscreens were everywhere. Same with motion controls: they got put in everything. Nintendo married health and electronics in something that tracked your weight over time and helped you get fit. That became a huge area of consumer electronics.
Nintendo got cocky. They assumed whatever seemed like another great unique idea to them would have the same effect. It did not.
The last two things they did, the 3DS and Wii U, they tried to drag the audience along to the place they wanted to go. They got so giddy when 3D movies were all the rage right before the 3DS launch that they raised the price of the unit. They have not been as lucky.
I think they will be more humble next time, and humble Nintendo is the Nintendo that made DS/Wii so I'm okay with it. And I do enjoy my 3DS and Wii U, when I play them. This generation isn't a failure, it is just a turning point.
UPDATE: What's with all this 'top selling console of the generation' crap like the fact that it launched three and a half years before the Xbox One and PS4, and two and a half before the Wii U isn't influencing that. There's literally no other system that could be close except the PS Morte... I mean Vita.
