The 3DS isn’t a complete failure. It just hasn’t set the world on fire like the original DS did.
And besides that, this Winter sees the first Mario game, the first Mario Kart game and the return of the Kid Icarus series. It would have sold great without the price drop, it’s just added incentive.
Am I a bad person for looking forward to Animal Crossing? : embarrassed:
I just sold mine last week. Gave up on it. Jack shit to play unless you want to play the same old games you’ve played a hundred times on other systems, and pay Nintendo to do it yet again. I thought Zelda would float my boat because I liked it when the it first came out on N64 but once I started playing it I realized that I was playing a 15yr old game that I had already beaten ages ago while I still had 5 new games for the 360 I needed to beat.
Once they delayed MGS that was it. Game over. I unloaded Zelda and the system together for $210 on Craigslist the day before the price drop. Took a while to sell too. Glad I dumped it before the value plummeted.
The 3DS launch has been a huge flop, regardless of what Justin_Bailey has said and will say after this post. Terrible execution with no games on a gimmick system. Same as the Wii but luckily people bought into the hype, even though the motion controls were crap. The 3D works fine but adds nothing to the games and will fade as a gimmick much like the motion controls did on the Wii, before they pretty much stopped making games for it last year.
The 3DS is at a fair price now as a replacement for people who’s DS Lite has broken.
I really think Nintendo is in an out of control death spiral with the mega flop of the 3DS, pretty much discontinuing Wii game production other than Zelda and the hugely underwhelming reveal of the Wii U, which will allow people to play the same games they’ve already been playing for years on the 360 and PS3.
$5 says Nintendo releases an entirely new console in less than 5 years, if they don’t get out of the hardware biz.
Define huge flop. They’ve sold five million of the things, doesn’t that count for anything?
Out of control death spiral? Really? Even though Nintendo has a market cap on par with Sony? You remember Sony right? They have a movie division and a computer division and an electronics division and they’re a huge company. Nintendo’s Pokemon machine makes them just as huge.
Secondly, the Wii U is said to be more powerful than the PS3 and Xbox 360.
Thirdly, Nintendo is not getting out of the hardware biz when they have more money than god. They’re not flying high like they were during Wii-mania, but they still blow Sony and Microsoft out of the water when it comes to profitability. And part of that is because the 3DS didn’t flop. It just wasn’t as awesome as they wanted it to be.
Oh yeah, and the 3DS price cut will put the 3DS at nearly half the price of a PlayStation Vita. Any competition the 3DS may have had is already doomed.*
This definitely happens, and at least in my case there are a couple (very very small) permanent scratches from this. As far as I can tell, this only happens if you put pressure on the system while it’s closed, by dropping it or sitting something on it.
I’ve been keeping mine in one of the cloth bags from Club Nintendo, so that doesn’t really protect against this type of thing. A hard case probably would. Anyways, I just cut a piece of a microfiber cloth for cleaning glasses and keep it between the screens when I close it. No more problem.
I think people are going a bit overboard predicting the doom of the thing. There’s always Pokemon if nothing else, a new version of that would probably sell about 10 million systems in a week.
I’m glad I’m waiting for a redesign.
This looks like a mess.
There’s RUMORS for next year, with the new slider built in.