Yakuzaice said:
That was my point. Even if the 3DS had a sales explosion, the handheld market would still be down without the Vita turning itself around. But that is all just specualation about future sales. The facts we have before us is that in March 2013 the entire handheld market is less than what the DS alone did from 2007-2011 in March The 3DS has not sold more after 24 months than any other handheld. I don't know why you keep throwing out blatantly false information. Whether we are talking about US sales or Worldwide sales, it's not true. The number of 3D movies released doesn't really indicate whether or not there is a bubbling demand for 3D content. The studios have put a lot of effort into pushing 3D movies to increase average ticket prices, and they aren't going to give up at the drop of a hat. It's not like this is the first time 3D movies have come around anyway. In 2011 there were 601 movies tracked in the US box office. I can't seem to find hard data on annual sales of HDTV's and 3DTV's, so I'll go ahead and take your claims at face value. Even so, it is hardly the same situation. 11 years ago, the average selling price of an HDTV was $8900. Meanwhile you can get 3DTV's for as low as $500. In general, 3D just seems to be treated as another feature on higher end TV's rather than a unique selling point. Even for the people with 3DTV's, I wonder what percentage of the content they watch is 3D. I'd imagine it is quite low. If 3D was setting the world on fire, why haven't there been more 3D phones? It looks like there was a moderate push by a few companies in 2011, but it is down to just LG now, and their latest 3D smartphone was announced more than a year ago. Why are people buying Samsung and Apple phones by the bucket load when those companies seem to show no interest in 3D? Same with gaming, if people are clammoring for 3D, why have Sony and Microsoft's efforts petered out? Why isn't it front and center on the Wii U? Lastly, kind of coming full circle, why isn't the 3DS doing better? If 3D is going to cause it to take off in March 2014, what was going on in the previous three years? |
The only thing 3D is missing is content, which is taken of by Hollywood & Nintendo.
3D will really take off in 2014 because it will finally have the library of content needed as well as more ways to watch with Vudu currently having 3D streaming and Hulu Plus trying to set up their 3D streaming this year after failing to meet their set date of by the end of 2012. And Netflix has been trying to increase their Bandwidth by 4 times since 2011, but have more limitation on their budget for streaming for how they do things, but they have recently done 2 times more and used it for 1080p streaming.
Samsung & Apple have a Brand to be able to pull of selling their cell phones. Apple is clearly saving 3D as a great feature, just look at the iPad 3, it has the name The New iPad, which means there will most likely be a New iPad 2 follow by the New iPad 3D. Apple is all about mostly marketing, ever since after the release of the iPhone.
But Smartphones are the only bad area for 3D, because of lack if content. It got only 1 awesome 3D game, and 1 pre-install 3D movie, and no Netflix App and most of them got discontinued because they went to long without content.
As I said content is the only thing that has been missing for 3D in the past, but now the only thing that is missing is content is the 3D Smartphone department.
Plus over 95% of manufacture TVs in the world are 3D TVs these days.
And Apple is saving Glasses-free 3D for a big show off after they milk the less love features to be added on the next iPad & iPhone.
