01-17-2015, 10:36 PM
The thing is tho, it's their IPs that are selling their platform, not third party properties. How many kids saved up for a 2DS or 3DS XL just for Pokemon Alpha/Omega and Pokemon X/Y? How many high-schoolers and hipsters like me bought a 3DS for Animal Crossing New Leaf? How many college-goers and young adults bought a 3DS just for Smash Bros? Heck, it seems that this new 3DS' main target demographic are the Smash Bros players, given the Amiibo NFC, faster CPU, more RAM and extra buttons.
Yeah. The only way this would change is if the world would stop caring for these IPs. As long as Smash, Mario, Zelda, AC, Metroid and Pokemon sells, their console will sell. Sega only had one stable IP at the time of collapse that was Sonic, and had also been porting their games to the PC for a while by then. Nintendo's strategy is pretty straightforward: platform exclusives. Want Pokemon? It's 3DS or bust. There will be no Pokemon for the Vita, Android, iOS, Blackberry or Windows Phone. And then they brainwash people into buying their products by merch overflow and advertising sensory bombardment (read: Saturday morning cartoons).
As for world multi adapters, it's not really feasible. As mentioned before, there are no less than a dozen socket types and each country picking their own. For example, Indonesia, being a former Dutch colony, uses Europlug, a rounded two pin plug standard. Malaysia on the other hand, is a former British colony and uses BS1363, a three-pin plug format. And then The Philippines, being a Former U.S. base, uses the NEMA flathead two pin format. Unless Nintendo makes like Apple and the head of the charger is interchangeable (which requires the owner to buy a separate head each time s/he is going overseas), even having the charger accept 100-240v, 50-60Hz isn't going to be enough.
Yeah. The only way this would change is if the world would stop caring for these IPs. As long as Smash, Mario, Zelda, AC, Metroid and Pokemon sells, their console will sell. Sega only had one stable IP at the time of collapse that was Sonic, and had also been porting their games to the PC for a while by then. Nintendo's strategy is pretty straightforward: platform exclusives. Want Pokemon? It's 3DS or bust. There will be no Pokemon for the Vita, Android, iOS, Blackberry or Windows Phone. And then they brainwash people into buying their products by merch overflow and advertising sensory bombardment (read: Saturday morning cartoons).
As for world multi adapters, it's not really feasible. As mentioned before, there are no less than a dozen socket types and each country picking their own. For example, Indonesia, being a former Dutch colony, uses Europlug, a rounded two pin plug standard. Malaysia on the other hand, is a former British colony and uses BS1363, a three-pin plug format. And then The Philippines, being a Former U.S. base, uses the NEMA flathead two pin format. Unless Nintendo makes like Apple and the head of the charger is interchangeable (which requires the owner to buy a separate head each time s/he is going overseas), even having the charger accept 100-240v, 50-60Hz isn't going to be enough.
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