It's hard to believe a Nintendo handheld will fail. I have a bunch of faith in the 3DS, systems have game droughts when they are first released, we just have to give it time.

1. Well that's a different matter.

2. A head start is just another fallacy of what makes a hit system (whether or not it's the leader for a generation). Something about those systems turned people off, as it's not as though they were starving for multi-million sellers. Something about the 3DS is turning people off, and we'll soon see if that was the price.

To be honest I expected 3DS to do just fine at 250$ I thought the falls line-up of AAA+ games would make the battle a tough one for Sony. However out of the gate I expected Nintendo to loose a ton of marketshare. Infact I thought Vita might only loose the battle by a few million units. But then it launched and has been doing horrible, I changed my mind and thought that PS Vita might kill it off, however with this price cut I think 3DS is back in the running for winner of this handheld console war.

Will 3DS die? If Vita kicks its butt this winter despite the killer line up and lower price, then maybe. But I don't think that is likely I think 3DS will get out of this slump and will rebound. I bet Nintendo will yet again win the handheld war, though I am returning to my origional expectation where 3DS doesn't win by a landslide like they did with DS I think this will be a much closer fight.

However my concern is that Nintendo will not be nearly as profitable with 3DS. Selling each unit as a loss means they need to shift alot of software to make up for that loss. Meaning Nintendo will have a much harder time maintaining the profit margins they have enjoyed in the past few years.

So I am not concerned for 3DS's life span, I very much doubt it will die like VB or DC. However I am concerned Nintendo will not be able to maintain profit margins and protect stock from continuing to plummet!

Remember when PS3/PSP had no games priced to high and was not selling? yeah what fai....what they ended up just fine. So will 3DS

Nintendo systems, including 3DS, are always different, and they enjoy the huge benefit of some of the strongest exclusives. The only risk is surrendering the leadership to PS Vita, or most likely, surrendering some market share to it, but keeping the leadership. But 3DS won't die killed by Vita, as Rol wrote, the only one that can kill Nintendo systems is Nintendo itself. This will be true as long as Nintendo exclusives remain strong.

The 3DS sold badly compared to predictions (Nintendo's)... it didn't sell badly.

What it did though is come out 4 months too early as the game library clearly was not ready for post launch support.
I mean it's nice to discover the eshop, the videos and all after a few weeks... but that too could have come out right away ^^.

nintendo will do just fien as always and to be honest the Nintendo 3DS was never on 219.99 in teh Uk, maun store were selling it for 189.99 since day 1 most onlien retail were already selling at 179.99.

Game had the used version at £129.99 for a month now.