freebs2 said:
An handled is supposed to be simple, inutitive, portable and affordable. It should be designed for pick-up and play games, not for in-depth 3D games. The true only innovation of 3DS over the original DS and supposed selling point was 3D. Needless to say, it was quite a failure, it didn't do much for the more "hardcore" gamer (who still prefers better graphics and higher resolution), it had a bad impact on children, or to be more precise, on parents, and most importantly it came with an high cost. Nintendo sacrificed convenince, intuitivness and portability for a very weak feature. Basically 3DS was designed as an immersive console to played on couch while staying still (for not losing the 3D effect) on a quite room; it is a portable home console more than a proper handled. Plus, since they were too focused (or too cocky) on 3D, they didn't care to upgrade the rest of the system's layout, which was getting old. Their choice to stay with a 2 screen layout and a small resistive touch-screen can be questioned since a smartphone layout (a single capacitive touch screen) is easily more intuitive. At last, if they wanted to compete with smartphones they should have made their consoles less reliant on phisical distributions, in order to lower prices. I think the main problem of 3DS right now is the fact games are percieved as too expansive by parents. I can easily see this when I meet my cousin and her kids on holidays. Kids still love to play on dedicated handleds, it's thier parents who prefer to buy them teblets, in order to spend less on games later. |
thats funny the PSP had no problem and some of there biggest hits were in depth 3d games.
How did they sacrifce portability? it was the exact same size of DS lite. the 3d sucked sure, but i wouldnt say it hurt it, maybe initially. But i agree the 3d sucked
You think it would have been better operating like a smart phone? Why would the masses buy another device that not only looks like something they already have but has even less functionality. Hell that goes for gamers too, i barely want to play games on my smart phone i sure as hell not gonna plunk down an extra few hundred for crap touch controls.
I dont think they wanted to compete with smart phones that is a fight they cant win. For the same reasons you say, you know good and well Ninty is not going to price their games cheap. And parents are not gonna wanna spend 40 on a game no matter how "good" it is. This is where i say people put way too much stock in Ninty games.
