Thanks for the update. Bubble Up. Five bucks for Pilotwings is a steal, and while Steel Diver got horrible reviews, that price point might be enough for some people to pick it up. Bubble up for info sharing!
I swear that it said that there was free delivery when I ordered...but I could pick it up so I did.
And you'd think Sony would have thought of that ahead of time...
Well said. This isn't about one beating the other. They both did well this week and that bodes well for handheld gaming. Thats what people should be happy about.
Bubble up.
I had never heard of the two M-rated games mentioned in the article.
Why no M-rated games? Probably because it immediately narrows your target audience and it isn't NEEDED for it to be fun. So, it doesn't help you from a business perspective and it doesn't improve the player experience. So why bother?
Another way to look at this is that DS sold 149 million units DESPITE their being no M rated games. They didn't need it. And they don't...
Madden 3DS didn't get great reviews...at 40 bucks. For five, I'll take it.
Good to see 3DS and Vita gamers finding common ground on an issue. Just sayin'. ;)
A lot. And they weren't bought for gaming. They were bought as a phone. Remove the phone part of it and the iPhone doesn't sell.
You're argument is like saying that people buy a microwave because of the digital clock and that clocks on microwaves made other clocks in our homes obsolete. Jack of all trade devices DO NOT make dedicated devices obsolete.
People are still buying clocks dude. My alarm clock does "clock" a lot better than...
@CloseSecond: Name a SKILL touch game that you can control AS WELL as a handheld or console with buttons. You can't.
You see, for gamers, the mystique of "OMG I'm playing a game!" as the sole benefit of doing it passed about 25 years ago. Casual audiences are just experiencing that and they're still willing to pay for shovelware that has no depth and is bullshit. The controls on touchscreens are HORRIBLE. They respond like a controller that is broke...
@newmonday: A gamer doesn't need any of the things you mentioned. We want to play good DEEP games, not superficial games and be able to browse the web. We want our device to be the master of one thing, not a jack of all, like a smart phone.
The true cost of the base device is not 250. It is 290 dollars. The device itself would be priced just fine if there were SOME sort of memory included. Making it proprietary is a total douchebag move that is classic Sony. Their Blu Ray players also require a proprietary USB wireless device to connect wirelessly to the internet...at 80 dollars. Generic wireless USB is half that. You pay for the same technology PLUS you pay to have the letters S-O-N-Y stickered on it. Its dumb and its en...
Yep.
Good to know, but that still makes multiplayer and anything that isn't turn based really difficult. I'm not interested in what is possible, I'm interested in what works.
And that works great for simple shovelware and minimalist skill games. Not for console-like titles.
What happens when internet goes down on those PCs/phones/streaming TVs? Do people have the patience to not be able to game at all when they have an internet outage? Last I checked the internet infrastructure is not getting any younger and we don't seem to be in any hurry to replace it. 4G in America is bullshit, for example. It isn't fourth generation technology at all, at least not what tech engineers say it should be. 4G was defined as something way the hell faster than this an...
You're getting disagrees because people disagree with your opinion. Learn to live with that. Freedom of speech means that you can say what you want, not that people have to agree with you. The internet has seemed to taught people the latter, for some odd reason.
And I got mine right before the price cut, but these last 10 GBA games have erased any regrets I had. I'm not ashamed to say that Yoshi's Island is FUN!
3DS has its own market share that it caters to with exclusive titles that draw people towards it instead of the Vita. Most gamers (hardcore or casual) just want to have fun and they don't need to pay for extra horsepower to get it.
Besides, after the last month its a hard sell for anyone to claim that the 3DS is going anywhere.
What happens when you get a call when playing a game on an iPhone? How would you feel if you dropped multiplayer or lost a game save because of a call. Solve that logistical problem and then you'd be correct. Until then, no chance.
Bubble up. The market is saturated with shovelware. Apple seems to be so "proud" of their half a million apps, a great majority of them are buggy or just plain bad. We are living through 400,000 "ET The Extra Terrestrial" games right now and Apple is being praised by tech blowhard morons for it.