3DS price cut won't help lack of games

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By Peter CohenJuly 28, 2011, 10:21 am PT

ZDNet:

?But the cut in price, while welcome, still fails to solve the single most fundamental issue with the 3DS as of July 2011: There are no damn games. The last?legitimate?hit was?The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time 3D, but even that wasn?t enough to move a sizable number of consoles. Throughout the history of game consoles, one thing has remained true above all others: A game console without games is no game console at all.?

Ricardo Bilton?s absolutely right. A fair number of Apple pundits have used the price cut to crow about how this is a sign that Apple is superior to Nintendo, and that the iPad and iPhone are better gaming systems ? that?s misguided, at best. The 3DS is a fine game system in terms of hardware, but Nintendo?s major failure here has been to get a good library together out the gate. And that?s somewhere Apple has succeeded greatly ? in getting together a huge software ecosystem for its iOS hardware.

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