Originally Posted by
ProBubble
- Crappy battery life - to be fair its the same across the market.. Until they develop newer battery technology
- Crappy introduction games - Gameboy started with Tetris and thats about it..
- No zelda, mario, kid icarus, et cetera in the introductin - None of the nintendo consoles were released with one of these on its coattails.. whats new?
- This is Nintendo, it is very obvious they are going to release another version of it in the near future since they released 3 extra versions of the Nintendo 3DS - yeah they do have the tendancy to milk the handheld console market more than any other.
- The things you could do with the Nintendo 3ds may be amazing at first, but will suck after a few days - AGAIN the same AS EVERY OTHER THING
- No internet - just lolz
- Can't socialize with friends yet - Yeah the one valid point you have.. they should have taken what they have on the DS to this 3DS and moved from there not shedding things.
Ninendo tend to release too early and develop legends after.. Wii was the exception and was aimed at a totally different audience than the n64 and gamecube were aimed at.. Whats interesting is that the development post console release is actually superior to all other consoles with things like Zelda and Mario coming in shortly after release to extend the top price period before they have to drop it. PS3 failed with a similar idea and lost a lot of time until the big name games came out before people started buying. Xbox was released with Halo and proabbly achieved the best initial sales of the lot.
Its an odd market to talk about as the factors that drive selling arent the same as many other ones.. with fanboyism, practicality and availability coming into it.. Nintendo rely on the massive amount of fanboys it has that they will as you say release something then shortly after release an improved version to cash in on the market a second time.. the games they make are pretty bad when compared to the amount of effort that goes into other format gaming (with exceptions) and even the catalogues are the smallest of any format.
They are pretty shrewd to keep a hook on the fanboys.. and I hope they continue to the end of days (in about 20 months :P)