Top 10 Reasons You Didn’t Buy The 3DS
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jun 5, 2011 17:42 JST
- Tags: DS, Marketing, Nintendo, Rankings, Statistics, Technology
Nintendo’s much trumpeted 3DS increasingly has a Virtual Boy air about it, with buzz and sales having subsided rather too quickly for comfort – Japanese asked why it is they haven’t bothered buying it explain why in this survey.
The ranking (multiple choice format):
1. It’s too expensive/You’re waiting for the price to drop (100%)
2. You’re happy with the DS/DSi (60.6%)
3. You’re worried about the burden on your eyes (41.2%)
4. The screen looks as if it may cause sickness (39.4%)
5. There was hardly any launch soft (24.6%)
6. You’ll buy it when the games you want come out (18.5%)
7. You’re happy with your phone or smartphone (11.1%)
8. You’re happy with your PSP (10.8%)
9. The battery looks too weak (8%)
10. It’s heavy and you don’t want the hassle of lugging it around (7.1%)
Although concerns about price and satisfaction with existing consoles are the main issues and look likely to subside with time, that two of the top 4 concerns are related to the effects of its screen can hardly be promising.
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I didn't buy it mainly because of 3/4.
I thought to myself, "If I buy a 3DS, I wont even use the 3D function at all...", so I didn't really see a good reason to buy the 3DS especially with its currently weak amount of good games.
I'm in love with the people who responded with Option 8.
Wow, if that's all it takes for you to be in love with someone...
I'm a whore? YUSH.
11. When i'm able to play downloadable games.
nah what game to play?
To hell with the fucking games! Try just playing it in full steroscope and guess how long it'll be before your head implodes from the stress~~~
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*****PoP*****
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That & the reasons below, combined;
1. It’s too expensive/You’re waiting for the price to drop (100%)
2. You’re happy with the DS/DSi (60.6%)
5. There was hardly any launch soft (24.6%)
6. You’ll buy it when the games you want come out (18.5%)
This is just a bad time for there to be an expensive Handheld from Nintendo of all companies...
Honestly after what...7-8 years of DS and PSP they add 1 analog NUB and slightly better graphics than PSP and charge it 250$? Thanks but no thanks.
And region lock? Who the hell though that would be a good idea???
It's quite sad we have regional locking in this day and age.
Esp. since most games are never released outside of Japan, and the only way to play them would be via import.
But if they're regional locked, then it's physically impossible. So, really, you can only pirate them.
> It's quite sad we have regional locking in this day and age.
Rejoice: Nintendo has finally reached the state of 1995s, launch of DVD. They are only 15 years behind now!
> So, really, you can only pirate them.
Yes. Especially since most games I have enjoyed on my DS were never released in Europe.
Region lock on the 3Ds was a really dick move from Nintendo. And it's just one of many drawbacks the 3Ds has (price, no games worthy, battery life, technology slightly better than other current handhelds).
Anyway, i think 3Ds will sell better when Nintendo launches it's first party games. People love Zelda, Mario, etc. enough to overcome it's flaws.
Back before they were released, I was wondering which of the Wii/PS3 I should get, luckily Nintendo made the discussion for me, when they reported the Wii would be region locked. Both companies kind of defied my expectations on this with Sony having the reputation as controlling, and Nintendo seeming like a consumer friendly company. Seems like Nintendo is only getting worse. I hope the NGP is region free.
You mean the thing sony hasn't priced yet thats "more powerful then a ps3" that will probably cost upwards of 600 dollars easily?
Slightly better? You seem to be under the impression the PSP can pull off anything remotely as good looking, as, say, Resident Evil: Revelations or Mercenaries. And those are first gen games.
Seriously, this is qualified as a "good" comment?
There are no games, it's as simple as that.
more like "why the hell would I buy a 3ds to play SF4 in a small hunch screen, when I can play it in an XBOX on a 40' LCD?"
psp has much more games and its a whole lotta cheaper.
Nothing new I suppose for the 3DS, since my PSP and DSi can handle all my handheld needs
Because I'm already happy with my PSP and PS2!!
Hate or Love it waiting for same or better tech applied on PSP
What can I say I'm loyal to me brands -_-
lol that's retarded. You sony fangirls crack me up.
Lol
1 - It's the topic of the article so I posted my reason
2 - It's so-so, I've heard worse
3 - Fangirl? That's just your desperation to have one
4 - Does any attention satisfy you be it negative or positive so much less in the Internet of all places?
I wonder when the whole 3D hype will be over (again).
I doubt it'll be until long.
Because nobody was waiting impatiently for the 3DS to come out for a year or two, no...
(btw that's irony if you didn't catch it)
Until the 3ds can play hacked 3ds rom
me too..
me first...
me second...
me three
and the number 1 hacked game will be a pokecrap
3ds in nothing but a hype at launch, now it shall finaly rest in peace
No games at launch doesn't exactly make 3DS a hype machine. We all know that it will be awesome when all the good games roll out - that's when everyone will buy it.
Investors won't like the wait but they'll bear with it. The question is when are the good games going to come out?
I don't think common people (not gamers) would fall again because of a gimmick. They have fallen for the touch screen in the DS already (and for the motion controller in the Wii). Maybe they realised games are not for them, despite how cute the handheld gimmick could look.
mainstream idiots are going only for the gimmicks
I'm personally waiting for it to not become the next virtual boy.
"6. You’ll buy it when the games you want come out (18.5%)"
No point in getting it now...
"Resident Evil Revelations" has not hit our shores yet...
Also, I am looking forward to "Megaman Legends 3" to be released in a year or so...
i liked my virtual boy...i only had mario tennis for it but it was fun at the time :(
I'm still waiting for 3D hentai games, where I have the optical feeling, I have some boobs on my legs (no,not my balls)
Eh im one of those people who will buy iy after the game i want comes out
#11 I'm one of the 10% of people who can't see 3D making the whole gimmick pointless
wait... 10% of the population is missing an eyeball/blind? thats the first Ive heard of such a thing...
This is a real phenomena: Even Johnny Depp whose latest movie (Pirates of the Caribbean 4) is in 3D cannot perceive the movie in 3D.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoblindness
I can't see 3D as well. No, I'm not blind in an eye, it's just that I have weaker vision in one eye, making stereoscopic 3d impossible to see.
12. That would make Sony think twice before releasing they're new NGP PSP to give unreasonable price and also as Anon 18:08 say pointless gimmick and strict access!
so basically, ur a cow. im jealous of ur 2d life, cus thers some stuff i'd like to do in the 2d realm ifyaknowhatimean.
Good four you. 2d is better.
I find this point rather interesting, if 10% of people can't see the 3D effect, then it goes up to 20% who think they can't see it, and with all the social interaction, 30/40% of people who have a bad opinion of the 3Ds because of this. Add the usual 10% of people who'd dislike it anyway, and it makes up to 50% of people who are reluctant to buy the 3DS.
(I know my reasoning is quite far-fetched).
More like way to pull random percentages out of your ass.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscopic_acuity
A population study revealed a surprisingly high incidence of good stereoacuity: [3]. Out of 188 biology students, 97.3% could perform at 2.3 minutes of arc or better.
Yeah, your math might be a LITTLE bit off... :)
Such cases ;_;
And that's why theres the slider to adjust the 3D level to the point people can see it / deal with it. Personally I can handle the 3D without a hitch but my roomie can't use the 3D except with the slider barely up or he feels ills.
My reason for holding off was #6, waiting for DoA:D to come out (Which is a very good anthology of the series) and if that hadn't come out in May I'd probably have waited for Phoenix vs Layton. To be blunt, yes the launch lineup was pathetic.