As anyone who is following the little device knows, the Nintendo 3DS isn’t selling like its last-gen incarnation or its console counterpart did at launch; meaning, it hasn’t been selling well. Over in Japan, normally Nintendo’s safe-haven, Sony’s PSP is regularly beating the 3DS on the sales chart, and Nintendo’s 3D handheld’s sales figures quickly dropped below half of what Sony’s seven-year-old handheld was managing. Goo Research set out to figure out why the 3DS wasn’t selling like Nintendo’s Wii and DS before it, and administered a survey to 1,110 people in Japan, 39.5% male and 60.5% female. Want to know why people aren’t buying the Nintendo 3DS?
- The price is high and/or waiting for a price drop
- Satisfied by the DS and/or DSi
- Worried about eye strain
- Worried about getting sick from the screen
- Few launch titles
- Will buy once a game I want is released
- Satisfied by cell phone and smart phone games
- Satisfied by PSP
- The battery is weak
- It’s heavy and I don’t feel like carrying it with me
- Can’t play Game Boy Advance games
- The color I want isn’t available
- Can’t play Game Boy games
- I’ll save my money for the NGP, thank you very much
- Waiting for a version with a larger screen
- Because you can’t move your DSi Points over
- The buttons layout looks hard to use
- No Famicon/NES in the Virtual Console
- The zoom view for DS games is hard on the eyes
- Waiting until my friends buy it
Not surprisingly, most of the top complaints seem to be a money or content issue, both of which can be said to be related to each other, in that one wouldn’t want to pay what they feel is a hefty price for something that won’t get much use. So, reader, do you have a Nintendo 3DS? No? Why not?
(Andriasang via Sean Malstrom)
