By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close
Wyrdness on 28 August 2017
Edit Thread
DélioPT said:

So you think it's ok for the 3DS to outsell GBA's 67m by taking more time?
I'm sorry, but we really won't agree on this.
3DS took more time to reach that number... waay more time. Why? As you said: "today's era had competition and mobile " And this was my main point.

3DS taking more years (7, right?) to reach the same numbers that GBA pulled in 4 years, is not a good sign. 
Even if one day 3DS manages to outsell the GBA it will be because it didn't have to compete with 2 new devices like the GBA had in 2005.

Maybe Nintendo marketed DS as a 3rd pillar because if that message resonated with gamers, they would be selling not one but two devices to people.
Which would mean that people would spend more money (on their 2 devices), thus raising revenue/profits.

Yeah because it still reached that number within a reasonable time and in the context of its own gen, lets look at your point here it took longer to get to the mark, so? It still got there anyway and the portable market as a whole still increased over the GBA era during the mobile era this gen, that's an improvement. Fact is taking longer doesn't matter because the 3DS and its gen lasted much longer than the GBA did.

GBA had a monopoly, it was vastly cheap hardware because it wasn't that cutting edge as no one was forcing Nintendo to take risks in the market and the consumers only had one option for portables under these conditions it was bound to sell faster, 3DS on the other hand has had competition that forced better hardware so harder pricing choices to make as well as battle it for consumers and support and the mobile market. GBA didn't compete with any device it was dropped for the DS because as a competitive platform it was weak, the second the PSP was coming it got dropped because it's a device designed for an era that had a monopoly not one where the is competent competition.

Except Nintendo have been selling 2 devices for decades now and you know how that has ended with one device dropping out because supporting more than one platform sucks up too many resources to give both equal support, even Sony couldn't do it, having 2 devices drained revenue via the struggling platform out of the 2 platforms for both companies.