The new meme: The "dying" 3DS

[feilong80]

"Dying"

"Floundering"

"Struggling"

"Emergency"

"In Trouble"

The above is just a few game industry press code words for the 3DS that I see amongst all the sites. Now, I don't want to understate that Nintendo got too greedy and messed up at $250, and needed to get better games out faster, 'cause all that is true.

But man, this is so not Virtual Boy territory, at all. This is Nintendo's platform going forward. It is getting annoying reading the panic stricken articles.

[ECM]

This is standard-issue, Nintendo is dead, hyperbole that they've been pushing for well nigh-on a decade.

They spent the first 3+ years of the Wii's existence saying it was dead/a fad/etc. (even when it was selling at literally record levels) and, even now, when it's STILL, at the global level, out-selling the PS360 every month (by at least 200k units), it's still 'dying'.

As for the 3DS, now that it's priced like a DSi, it's going to simply fall into thes default slot of being the go-to portable of choice, leaving the Vita back in the same box it was in when it launched against the original DS (and the same pricepoint at which the 3DS couldn't sell in big numbers with a brand that, outside of Japan, doesn't even exist).

(That said, Nintendo should have either cut back on the design or eaten the loss out of the gate, though, because if you don't have games for the damn thing, you can't justify a premium price, something they appeared to have learned w/ the U by getting into dev hands well over a year before launch.)

The last place on earth you should be getting any of your info on the relative strength of gaming companies is from the gaming media (ironically!).

[elchevalier]

Meanwhile, barely anyone shed a tear when sony decided to stop producing the pspgo.