PAOerfulone said:
It's not a failure by any means, it's just disappointing in terms of hardware. Software on the other hand is a different story.
DS aside, because the DS was the second greatest selling gaming system of all-time, second only to the PlayStation 2. And a majority of that audience, as well as the PSP's audience, went to the Smartphone, mobile gaming market.
I mean, the 3DS has just about everything you could ask for from a Nintendo Handheld.
-Pokemon, Mario, in all forms and genres, Zelda, Animal Crossing, Donkey Kong (while a port of a Wii game, is still more than what the DS got), Fire Emblem, Star Fox, Kirby, the successful return of Kid Icarus, it even got Smash Bros.
-Respectable 3rd Party Support from major Japanese publishers such as Capcom (Monster Hunter, Phoenix Wright, Resident Evil), Square Enix (Kingdom Hearts, and various other RPGs), SEGA (Sonic), Bandai Namco (Tales of).
-And despite all of that, it is tracking well below where the DS was when that system was at the point of it's life where the 3DS is now.
But, I wouldn't say the 3DS is failure because of that, not at all. If anything, that goes to show how much of a Grand Slam, walk-off, success that the DS was. And the casual market was a big part of that, but now mobile and smartphone devices have taken that market away almost entirely.
So for a better comparison, let's try comparing the 3DS to the GameBoy Advance.
I don't think it's going to match the 81 million units of the GameBoy Advance.
I'd say the 3DS will finish somewhere around 70 million units. Just below the mark.
However, whatever the 3DS loses to the GameBoy Advance in hardware, I think it will make up for in software.
I think when all is said and done, the 3DS will finish with better software sales figures overall, than the GameBoy Advance. And with that, the 3DS will be a big success in it's own right, and will stand proudly shoulder to shoulder with the GameBoy line as they all look above their head at the DS.
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