Zaphire/Shelke
Zaphire: Art/Music/Anime/Videogamer Chick
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i know what your thinking what so sudden about it well after reading Gameinformer booklet, In to the great unknown question surround nintendo as it enters a critical phase by Matthew Kato as i quote what he said and i skip the intro to here.
Okay going to stop there because we all had our debate about the 3DS Slide to work on the few games that are coming soon for the 3DS, yes there was a few that side maybe give it a chance or we have to slowly get used to the fact some game have different options to used. Just after reading this give another question on " Will there be another 3DS console happening with two analog stick instead of two? or will there more consumers asking to get the money back for the 3DSX ( idea of what they might call it) Tell your thought about it cause there a lot of pro and cons on this article.
Price Cuts & Peripherals
On July28, Nintendo announced it was cutting the price of the 3DS from its launch price of $249.99 to $169.99-just five months after the handheld was released in the U.S.The move sparked a drop in the company's stock price, a pay cut for Nintendo president and CEO Satoru Iwata and other executives, and the creation of the 3DS ambassador program (which gives out free downloadable games to early adopters) in order to try recoup goodwill from those who'd already bought the system. Nintendo's move could have been spurred by a study in Japan by Goo Research that showed the unit's price was consumer's number one barrier to entry. While sales number increased after the price drop, the Expansion peripheral could suggest larger concerns regarding the system.3D functionality was ostensibly the raison d' etre of the system, and the early sales struggles of the 3DS and the confession of the need for more functionality from the system points of 3D not being as big a draw as Nintendo expected.This kind of crisis can't help with consumers who are already unsure about what the handheld has to offer. French website01net.com- which correctly called information about the 3DS Slide Peripheral and Wii U before they were officially announced- has reported that Nintendo also plans to release a newly configured 3DS that permanently includes the second analog. Hopefully this new version of the 3DS sells for the current $169.99 price, or consumers' price concerns may return.However, Nintendo is already losing money on each handheld sold, and adding a second analog stick likely won't help the situation. "It's ugly and it's just not an elegant solution,"says Billy Pidgeon, senior analyst at M2 Research, of the peripheral."It is problematic if you're going to add another analog stick to the basic configuration. It's quite likely they'll have to drop the price again on the current configuration because, when you see an upgraded version coming out, it does tend to soften the market for the previous version" Until then, Nintendo is pleased with the effects of the price drop. According to the company using NPD sales data, 185,000 units were sold in 19-days period after the price drop officially went into effect- a 260 percent increase from a similar period in July. This sound impressive.However, if Nintendo's own figures regarding the number of units it's shipped is any indication of demand for the 3DS, even if you double the number of handhelds shipped out in April through June of this year to accommodate for the price cut, is still wouldn't equal the number of DS Lites being shipped out to stores in America. Only time will tell if the 3DS sustains this pace and saves it from being a failure.
Okay going to stop there because we all had our debate about the 3DS Slide to work on the few games that are coming soon for the 3DS, yes there was a few that side maybe give it a chance or we have to slowly get used to the fact some game have different options to used. Just after reading this give another question on " Will there be another 3DS console happening with two analog stick instead of two? or will there more consumers asking to get the money back for the 3DSX ( idea of what they might call it) Tell your thought about it cause there a lot of pro and cons on this article.