zorg1000 said:
Soundwave said:
I think it depends on the hardware proposition.
If Nintendo fans were strictly all about price, then the lower price Wii U basic should've outsold the more expensive one. The more expensive $199.99 3DS XL also pretty always outsold the 2DS and the $169.99 regular 3DS.
The truth is too, $99 for a handheld, $199.99 for a console was never going to be feasible forever. Just like you can't go into a supermarket and expect to pay prices from 1989 for food (a Big Mac cost $2 in 1989, today it's $4+) you can't expect to get much of anything electronics wise for that cost these days.
$99.99 for the Game Boy in 1989/1990 adjusted for inflation today is $191 just about ... so just a little shy of the 3DS XL and more than the standard 3DS.
People were willing to pay hand over fist for the Wii at $250, the extra $50 on the Wii U is not the issue. Demand is the issue, not the price.
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Gameboy launched at $89.99 not $99.99 and 3DS is tracking ahead of the original Gameboy launches aligned as well.
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Game Boy sales hit a pretty hard wall after about 1992/93 or so. Something like the Virtual Boy, which was a laughably poorly thought out idea wouldn't have been rushed out to market otherwise, but GB sales by the mid-90s were really crap.
Game Boy was initially kind of like the first Nintendo wave where Nintendo itself was kind of thought of as a fad. But then the 90s settled in and it became all about the Super NES vs. the Genesis.
