90% of 3DS Users Prefer Retail

[mew4ever23]

Hmm. I bought New Super Mario Bros 2. via the eShop, but as other people have pointed out, there's no hard drive on the 3DS. That's going to become a problem.

 

[snekadid]

The offerings on their digital store is actually pathetic. There are not good games on the store. I look at it regularly and I'm super disappointed every time. The biggest offering tends to be in the area of 3D versions of old games. That is stupid. couple that with the fact that any game you can buy retail can be traded in later. All these super late adopters of digital are still so far behind the times. Steam is integrating a game trading system in their digital store. The consoles are only just getting in there with digital content worth anything, only to fall years behind yet again. Then, in final last place is Nintendo's terrible digital offering. They haven't even moved beyond their idiotic block system for memory counting.

As you can tell, I'm a bit disappointed as a Nintendo fan in their offerings. It's not so quaint right now be so behind the times.

So what you're saying is that Nintendos new hand held is keeping up with Sonys new hand held?

Haha, I suppose that I am. Handheld gaming is awesome and I hate the concept of it running behind phone games. But the offerings on my phone are mostly better, with exceptions being the RE game on the 3DS and some of their better remakes.

I dislike 3D and so will not be purchasing the 3DS probably ever, however once the Vita takes a colossal price dive and gets a decent library I will place it on consideration, however my main interest is in playing old ps games and such on a portable device because I can't even consider playing them when I'm at home and have newer nonportable stuff to play.

 

[Terramax]

Well, MAYBE Nintendo, if you didn't charge ridiculous amounts of money for your games for download, more people would buy.

I can buy awesome PSOne classics for between £2-8. So why was it, last time I checked before I sold the system about a month ago, I was being charged about £7.49 for Tetris?

 

[Terramax]

I dislike 3D and so will not be purchasing the 3DS probably ever, however once the Vita takes a colossal price dive and gets a decent library I will place it on consideration, however my main interest is in playing old ps games and such on a portable device because I can't even consider playing them when I'm at home and have newer nonportable stuff to play.

Well, the great news is that the Vita already has an awesome selection of PSone games up for sale, with new games being added around every week or so.

I've also bought about 12 Vita games and there have been at least 4 that I've had on constant daily rotation. I've already gotten my monies worth just from playing Everybody's Golf!

I can't wait for the Vita to go down in price so people like you can enjoy what the console has to offer. I'm not usually a handheld fan either, but the Vita has definitely given me the most fun out of any handheld ever, and I've gotten more fun out of it than my 360.

The 3DS is a worthy purchase depending one what games you like. For me, I really don't like playing Nintendo franchises, but I had a lot of fun with Dead or Alive, Ridge Racer and, when playing multiplayer, Kid Icarus.

Sadly, I couldn't take both consoles with me to Japan, and I didn't play the 3DS after I got the Vita, so the 3DS had to go. I've kept DOA and Ridge Racer on the day, probably years from now, when I rebuy the 3DS.

In other words, whilst you're obviously making do with mobile phones at the moment, I'm convinced when you do eventually buy one of the consoles, you won't regret it.

 

[Terramax]

*So sorry, double post*

 

[Baresark]

The offerings on their digital store is actually pathetic. There are not good games on the store. I look at it regularly and I'm super disappointed every time. The biggest offering tends to be in the area of 3D versions of old games. That is stupid. couple that with the fact that any game you can buy retail can be traded in later. All these super late adopters of digital are still so far behind the times. Steam is integrating a game trading system in their digital store. The consoles are only just getting in there with digital content worth anything, only to fall years behind yet again. Then, in final last place is Nintendo's terrible digital offering. They haven't even moved beyond their idiotic block system for memory counting.

As you can tell, I'm a bit disappointed as a Nintendo fan in their offerings. It's not so quaint right now be so behind the times.

So what you're saying is that Nintendos new hand held is keeping up with Sonys new hand held?

Haha, I suppose that I am. Handheld gaming is awesome and I hate the concept of it running behind phone games. But the offerings on my phone are mostly better, with exceptions being the RE game on the 3DS and some of their better remakes.

I dislike 3D and so will not be purchasing the 3DS probably ever, however once the Vita takes a colossal price dive and gets a decent library I will place it on consideration, however my main interest is in playing old ps games and such on a portable device because I can't even consider playing them when I'm at home and have newer nonportable stuff to play.

I'm with you on that. When the money is in the pipeline, I figured I would get a Vita as well. Also, I mostly don't play with 3D on. I despise 3D myself, but with the slider, it's strange. If you just barely turn it on, the image is a bit more crisp and clear with a not noticeable level of 3D.

 

[Something Amyss]

3DS owners prefer physical media over digital distribution? This is non-news. Lack of a large hard drive to store whole libraries and the tendancy to use the 3Ds (and other handhelds) in areas where WiFi signals might not be present (on planes, car trips) means that the only way to bring your library along is with physical media.


I'd like to see a similar poll with PC users. I imagine the ratios would be swapped.

Not to mention, the Nintendo store is bloody horrible.

My PC library is completely digital and almost exclusively Steam.

Make. Your. Purchasing system. Suck less.

I buy some digital content on XBL and PSN, because their systems are at least TOLERABLE. Even then, Microsoft had an HDD issue for years and Sony's got its own problems.

 

[surg3n]

I can understand that, some of the retail prices on 3DS games are awesome, like £10/$15 - I'm getting a 3DS on the strength of the game prices alone. Compared to the Vita, 3DS owners are getting a much better deal.

 

[snekadid]

I dislike 3D and so will not be purchasing the 3DS probably ever, however once the Vita takes a colossal price dive and gets a decent library I will place it on consideration, however my main interest is in playing old ps games and such on a portable device because I can't even consider playing them when I'm at home and have newer nonportable stuff to play.

Well, the great news is that the Vita already has an awesome selection of PSone games up for sale, with new games being added around every week or so.

I've also bought about 12 Vita games and there have been at least 4 that I've had on constant daily rotation. I've already gotten my monies worth just from playing Everybody's Golf!

I can't wait for the Vita to go down in price so people like you can enjoy what the console has to offer. I'm not usually a handheld fan either, but the Vita has definitely given me the most fun out of any handheld ever, and I've gotten more fun out of it than my 360.

The 3DS is a worthy purchase depending one what games you like. For me, I really don't like playing Nintendo franchises, but I had a lot of fun with Dead or Alive, Ridge Racer and, when playing multiplayer, Kid Icarus.

Sadly, I couldn't take both consoles with me to Japan, and I didn't play the 3DS after I got the Vita, so the 3DS had to go. I've kept DOA and Ridge Racer on the day, probably years from now, when I rebuy the 3DS.

In other words, whilst you're obviously making do with mobile phones at the moment, I'm convinced when you do eventually buy one of the consoles, you won't regret it.

The only thing I play on my phone is the UNO demo that they were too stupid to set limits on so its basically the full game that I can play forever.

There is crap on the VITA network, do not lie. If you have to buy an expensive console to download the game so that I can import it to my expensive hand held then there is no network. The amount of games available direct to VITA is offensively small/poor quality.

 

[SoulSalmon]

Even if the 3ds tore had something worthwhile in it, we in Aus are less inclined to DL full games for a console because while it might take an American 5 minutes, it would take us a few hours[footnote]I don't actually know how long it would take, but considering no-one I know here has a connection greater then 600kbps (most having an average of about 200kbps) when almost every American I know has 5mbs+, I would assume there's a decent difference.[/footnote]...
Faster to go to a store and grab a physical copy.

 

[Baldr]

I know another reason why other countries don't embrace digital distribution as much as the US is they don't have the unlimited bandwidth from their ISPs.

 

[TJC]

The biggest deal breaker is the price alongside the DRM. Why buy a game digital that can only be used on one console, cannot be resold if you're sick of it and still costs full retail (with retail being cheaper sometimes due to sales and stuff)? That's freaking batshit on a sandwich.

I actually like digital games and some of the eShop games are pretty awesome (Dillon's Rolling Western, I can't plug the game hard enough) despite them being a bit pricy. But only idiots make dumb purchase decisions. If there are no incentives to purchase a digital copy (especially when there incentives to buy retail), why do so?

recently, Nintendo added StarFox 64 to the eShop and I was willing to buy it digital (because it's one of my all-time favourites but I skipped it at release because I was short on cash) until I saw that they still want full price for a game that's over a year old. COME ON!

 

[Terramax]

There is crap on the VITA network, do not lie. If you have to buy an expensive console to download the game so that I can import it to my expensive hand held then there is no network. The amount of games available direct to VITA is offensively small/poor quality.

Jesus! Sorry to have offended you.

Personally, I have more PSOne games available to me right now than I have time to play them all.