VGChartz's favorite 3DS games! (The most popular game was...)

[PAOerfulone]

ktay95 said:

PAOerfulone said:
Man, the 3DS has such an amazing library of games!
So diverse, so much quanity, so much quality, and so... not on the Wii U... which could have benefited greatly if it had even half the library the 3DS had.
But anyways, top 5 is pretty cool, I just wish Fates had a little more votes, but still, can't complain, especially with Luigi's Mansion 2 being in the top 5. Makes me optimistic for the potential 3rd game!

Sure WiiU could have done with more games but it's bigger issue was marketing and price. The games would have come had they got people to buy the console.

The WiiU arguably has better games, just less. Games like Splatoon, SMM, Smash 4, Mario Kart 8 etc. are all much more likely to top a Nintendos Best 8th gen games list then anything listed here.

Oh, the price and marketing certainly didn't help matters, I agree. But having more games on the system to advertise and, in turn, advertise the system would've led to more sales and more people would have been willing to stomach the price because there would've been so many great to amazing games on the system to choose from.
We always talk about how the PS4 and Xbox One are the biggest threats and competitors to Nintendo on the console side of things and on the other hand, mobile gaming is eating and crippling the handheld market day by day, a market which Nintendo has dominated for decades, now is suddenly evaporating.
But one thing that I think everyone overlooks, in my view, is that the biggest competitor and biggest threat to Nintendo is... Nintendo.
What I mean by that is, because they were developing games for 2 different systems with different hardware, even though they didn't intend to, they essentially had the 3DS and the Wii U competing against each other for 1st party support, and the 3DS won that war because of obvious reasons, I mean look at Sony with the PS4 and the Vita.
This is why, no matter what NX turns out to be, at the very least, it needs to be the only hardware that Nintendo is developing, whether it's a handheld, a console, or both, it needs to be just one system, so Nintendo can focus all their dedicated gaming software on that one, which leads to more games, more games leads to more advertisement for those games, which leads to more advertisement for the system (Hey, look at this new system we made that has all these amazing games to play on it. More than any other system in our history!), more advertisement leads to more sales, more sales leads to 3rd parties hopping onboard.