[citation][nom]LuckyDucky7[/nom]Well, we really just don't care anymore.First of all, the 3DS (like the Wii before it) is priced 100 dollars too high. It should be (like the standard DS series before it) somewhere in the neighbourhood of 150 dollars. It does less than, say, an iPod Touch, so it should be priced accordingly- I don't care what the specs are since it's a Nintendo console and not something expected to be powerful.Secondly, there are no games for it. The Top 10 games are about all there is for it, as well as the included AR cards (but that doesn't really count). Remember this strip? (http
/www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=301)For a successful launch you need launch titles that aren't just re-hashes of 15-year-old games.For example, if MegaMan Legends 3 was a launch title, or, say, a Mario-type (Kart, New SMB-type) game, it would sell more copies (combined with a lower asking price) right off the bat. As I recall Metroid Prime: Hunters came out Thirdly, the market is saturated with DS's. The hardware is everywhere- it sold around 150 million units which is right behind the PS2. So nobody really needs to upgrade right now since THERE ARE NO GOOD GAMES for it.So I'm really not surprised.[/citation]
price, i dont think is too high, ill buy it when 5 games i want come out.
but no games, thats the reason is sales are slow. it has 2 games worth buying out. street fighter, if you dont have the console or pc version, and zelda which is STILL a damn good game.
[citation][nom]c0oim4n[/nom]I'm going to say right off the bat that I think dedicated handheld gaming became obsolete within the past few years, with the success of the iPhone and Android. Why buy a device for $200-$300 that only plays games, and browses the internet via only Wi-Fi, when you can go out and buy a 3-year contract at $35/month, and get a phone that can do just as much, and a hell of a lot more for under $100?Also: The quality of mobile-based games is always sub-par, and will always be sub-par to anything else, which is why gaming on a smartphone is popular. Why buy a handheld console for $250 and pay $50+ per game, when you have that $200 iPod, or sub $100 phone, and you can get games similar, if not identical or better for anywhere between $.99 and $10?Personally, I don't see a justifiable reason for a dedicated handheld gaming market to exist, especially with the tech of today. If a company like Nintendo wanted to survive in the mobile market, they would try something like what Sony did, and partner with a mobile phone company (lets say Motorola) and develop a Nintendo-branded phone, with a Nintendo Market, where you can buy all sorts of Nintendo's games?Thats just my $.02[/citation]
because its not 35$ a month, the phone costs 6-800 without contract, and the games for it largely suck.
but i personally see the idea of a smart phone as retarded, i also hate phones in general, because i have email, and would rather get info that way, than a conversation that will never end.
saying mobile gaming is sub par... and always has been? you ever play the gameboy? the gameboy advance? or any number of good ds games? lets say dragon quest 9 as an example, or lets also say a puzzle game, or a tetris like game, those are GREAT games, that lend themselves better to a mobile gaming experience. 99% of iphone games are shovel ware crap, that is a fact, but a far lesser amount are ds games, and even the shovel ware on the ds is a higher quality than the iphone.
and i believe dedicated gaming hand helds are necessary. they force people to expect good games, and force developers to make better games. if you get an ipod touch, are you expecting the games to be great, or are you expecting games, along with Internet and mp3 player?
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