1) It IS as/more powerful than the Wii, only it will fit in your pocket and won't need a TV. 2) Glasses-free 3D 3) No competition (Sony stupidly decided that the PSP2 won't have 3D i.e. will be outdated in a couple of years)
So what? Awesome, it'll have better graphics than the Wii.
On a small screen.
Sure, it can fit in your pocket, but it's a gaming system, and outside of hardcore gamers, most people won't want to swallow that kind of price for a handheld. They'll have a tough time marketing it to their touch generations crowd to upgrade, and parents will find it hard to swallow buying multiple systems for their kids.
Most people feel that 3D is a gimmick anyway. Nintendo might be able to make it cool, especially since it won't require glasses, but still. Sure the next Sony handheld supposedly won't be 3D, but Sony's copied Nintendo plenty of times before (remember, within 8 months of Nintendo announcing the Wii and its controller, Sony announced motion controls for their PS3 at the following E3), and could produce a system that's more in line with being an entertainment system, akin to the PS3.
@ModernTenshi04 So you felt the same about the PSP when it first came out, right?
Regardless.... as someone who already owns 3 different consoles, I find it MORE ridiculous that my friends are ditching perfectly good-working Xboxs just to get a Slim... paying $300 for something new and different makes sense... paying $300 for something you already own just cause the newer one is new, that's stupid.
I'd also rather spend $300 on a 3DS over $200 for Natal.
The PSP drove me away from handheld gaming, the 3DS will bring it back.
Totally felt the same way about the PSP when it came out, though at the time it was also too high a price to ask for a new gaming system from a company who had never done portable gaming before. This isn't like the GameBoy when it first came out, because it was an already well established market where Nintendo was still king.
Other than improved graphics, a 3D top screen, and a joystick, the 3DS isn't too terribly new from the current DS.
My argument is that if Nintendo wants the same level of success they've experienced with the DS, pricing it that high won't get them there.
$200 is more appropriate. Drop the DS Lite from production, possibly the DSi as well, or drop the price on the DSi and DSi XL.
I'm pretty serious when I say I'll wait for the inevitable next hardware revision if the system arrives at $250 or more.
@TareG Please get off the "no 3D = outdated in 2 years" train that you've included in at least 2 posts here. 3D is a gimmick, as shown by the abysmal sales of 3D TVs.
@HateEveryBody yes i deserve to be downranked but anyone buying a ds has to to younger than 12... the games were a joke to me when i bought my ds lite. call of duty? haha that was a joke om there.
@ModernTenshi04 that sounds like a great price because: 1. It is handheld. 2. It has a 3D screen. 3. It doesn't need a TV screen, because it has two. 4. It has an accelerometer and motion sensor. 5. It has three cameras - one inside and 2 outside for taking 3D pictures. So $300 sounds like the perfect price.
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$249 to $299 for a handheld would be crazy for Nintendo to do. That would price it far higher than the Wii.
Should those be the prices, I'll just wait for the inevitable hardware rehash Nintendo always does.
Seriously, that would be way too much for a handheld, even from Nintendo.
@ModernTenshi04
It sounds very reasonable to me:
1) It IS as/more powerful than the Wii, only it will fit in your pocket and won't need a TV.
2) Glasses-free 3D
3) No competition (Sony stupidly decided that the PSP2 won't have 3D i.e. will be outdated in a couple of years)
@TareG
So what? Awesome, it'll have better graphics than the Wii.
On a small screen.
Sure, it can fit in your pocket, but it's a gaming system, and outside of hardcore gamers, most people won't want to swallow that kind of price for a handheld. They'll have a tough time marketing it to their touch generations crowd to upgrade, and parents will find it hard to swallow buying multiple systems for their kids.
Most people feel that 3D is a gimmick anyway. Nintendo might be able to make it cool, especially since it won't require glasses, but still. Sure the next Sony handheld supposedly won't be 3D, but Sony's copied Nintendo plenty of times before (remember, within 8 months of Nintendo announcing the Wii and its controller, Sony announced motion controls for their PS3 at the following E3), and could produce a system that's more in line with being an entertainment system, akin to the PS3.
$250 to $300 for a handheld is just obscene.
@ModernTenshi04
So you felt the same about the PSP when it first came out, right?
Regardless.... as someone who already owns 3 different consoles, I find it MORE ridiculous that my friends are ditching perfectly good-working Xboxs just to get a Slim... paying $300 for something new and different makes sense... paying $300 for something you already own just cause the newer one is new, that's stupid.
I'd also rather spend $300 on a 3DS over $200 for Natal.
The PSP drove me away from handheld gaming, the 3DS will bring it back.
@TareG It isn't MORE powerful than a Wii... it's simply the most powerful HANDHELD out there...
@HateEveryBody
Totally felt the same way about the PSP when it came out, though at the time it was also too high a price to ask for a new gaming system from a company who had never done portable gaming before. This isn't like the GameBoy when it first came out, because it was an already well established market where Nintendo was still king.
Other than improved graphics, a 3D top screen, and a joystick, the 3DS isn't too terribly new from the current DS.
My argument is that if Nintendo wants the same level of success they've experienced with the DS, pricing it that high won't get them there.
$200 is more appropriate. Drop the DS Lite from production, possibly the DSi as well, or drop the price on the DSi and DSi XL.
I'm pretty serious when I say I'll wait for the inevitable next hardware revision if the system arrives at $250 or more.
@TareG Please get off the "no 3D = outdated in 2 years" train that you've included in at least 2 posts here. 3D is a gimmick, as shown by the abysmal sales of 3D TVs.
@pdiddy
Thanks for proving my point. 3DTV with glasses = Gimmick. 3D handheld, glasses-free = The next evolutionary step in handheld gaming.
@pdiddy
absymal sales my ass, they just got on the market.
@HateEveryBody yes i deserve to be downranked but anyone buying a ds has to to younger than 12... the games were a joke to me when i bought my ds lite. call of duty? haha that was a joke om there.
@ModernTenshi04 that sounds like a great price because:
1. It is handheld.
2. It has a 3D screen.
3. It doesn't need a TV screen, because it has two.
4. It has an accelerometer and motion sensor.
5. It has three cameras - one inside and 2 outside for taking 3D pictures.
So $300 sounds like the perfect price.