Either customers are smart or stupid

If they are smart, they would buy the 3D one. Why would you buy something that lacks a feature that the other has, and it can be turned off.

If they are stupid (and by this I'm meaning your definition of stupid, which basically runs along the lines of 'they don't frequent gaming forums') Then they will not realise that Nintendo have brought out a 3D-less model.

What you are saying is "some people don't like xbox live because there are 13 year olds swearing on there. MS should release a version of the 360 without access to XBL so that these stupid people can avoid the 13 y/olds"

I honestly expected better of you OP. Usually your posts are reasonable and thought out. This is just immature.

From what i can derive, it's a feature that's easy to add, so even if it's meaningless in terms of sales, it won't be a burden that, if removed, would make 3DS considerably less burdensome to develop.

Cost for the console could be taken into consideration, but if what Iwata said is true (that the $170 price point will get profitable once they get up to enough volume), then certainly they'll be in a good enough price range either way

Content is all that matters here. Glassesless 3D was a neat idea, though obviously not one that would be downright revolutionary for gaming because stereoscopic 3D itself has little to bring outside of minimal depth perception elements (though i do notice that my aim has improved in OoT3D, but that could just be me getting better as a gamer over the years), but lopping off a key feature that's relatively low-burden (and ultimately totally optional as the slider can implement) would really make no sense

The 3DS being exactly what it is was a pre-emptive system in execution, strategically oriented to kick Sony in the nuts (through pre-empting the push for 3D content on PS3 that required insanely expensive TVs and glasses, and to give Japanese developers a platform to put their very successful PSP-level portable games on, to try and leverage Sony out of the comfy niche they had developed with PSP in Japan) rather than to really build outward from what the DS had, so the factors that will really make the 3DS grow are not dependent on the presence or absence of 3D necessarily, as the 3D as well as the console's power level are both pre-emptive and/or defensive characteristics

Nah it was just a joke :) a bad one i guess :P

I like 3D and I think a lot of people do as well. They just don’t want to spend 250 on a 3d machine that does not have that many games that they want.

Well...

You seriously believe it would be good for them to change the name of the console during its lifetime? I don't think there's a better method to confuse customers even more. If the customers aren't smart enough to recognize that the 3DS is a new machine, then they definitely won't realize that old 3DS games would work on their new "DS Advance" (which would be a 3DS without 3D).

Business just doesn't work that way. If the 3DS should really fail (it's still much too soon to talk about that), they'd let it fail and come out with a really new approach afterwards.

Another reason: The 3D effect doesn't affect as many people as haters want to make you believe. People who are negatively affected by the 3D are a small (but very vocal) minority. I can only tell from my surroundings, but not a single person of all the people I've showed my 3DS to said that their eyes were strained because of the 3D. I've only showed it to like 10-15 people or so, but you get the drift. Several people who don't play and know about video games I didn't tell that the games were in 3D. They rubbed their eyes and said, "hey that looks different from my cell phone screen... it looks somehow three-dimensional."

All I want to say is that the 3DS is a fine machine as it is. The games look better than in the last generation even if you turn the 3D off. 3D is in no way required for games, so if anybody doesn't like it, just turn it off. It could all be so simple if people (mostly haters) weren't so stubborn.

Instead of just throwing away the 3ds, maybe they can offer a new model of the 3ds, without the 3d. It will obviously be priced lower, and it can play all the 3d games currently has available. It should have a different name, though.

QFT.

I don't know what makes OP think that the 3D feature is unwanted. I think its brilliant and adds to the immersiveness. So do a lot of people who play the 3DS.

Its just as Roma said, the 3DS is overpriced and doesn't have any software that is worth purchasing on it. The first issue is being resolved, the second issue is going to be resolved this fall, by when the 3DS will have at least a solid library of first party games, and hopefully a few good 3rd party games as well.

i think it was a bad idea from the start, but its to late for them to back out now.

besides they didn't back out when GC couldn't break 25m and when N64 couldn't break 40 so why would they back out on 3DS?

The Wii and DS happened after that, which shows the market Nintendo wants doesn't just anything Nintendo makes.

i know that

the point i'm making is that Nintnedo won't pull the plug on 3DS.

Why did you bring them up when the factors are not the same?