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hey guys and welcome to this week's episode of d3 live so today and when you be talking about handheld game consoles and why don't they actually have a place in the future so of course if you guys have missed it a few days ago nintendo announced that they will be really really dress Phylly slashing the price of their nintendo 3ds now this is a little bit of a surprise Nintendo was always done well with KML consoles me from the game water gameboy color game boy advance even the Nintendo vs they all been tremendously well i just sold them out just four years from years and years and just made money hand over fist however with the three guess it seems like this really is not the case at all i know there are a lot of reasons way this may or may not be an i don't go ahead and talk a little about some of them in my opinion right now so of course i think the number one thing that really hurt the 3ds was the lack of games now i think that can really speak from experience because i was excited about the 3ds before it came out and I was like really looking forward to it but they announced if everything I'm like it's going to be awesome 3d on your hand held up sailing school everything but then when they announced the launch lineup what games will be launched on day one I was like there's nothing there I want and to this day there's one getting that I would buy it by about the three BS right now I would buy ocarina of time and that's it an opening at time is a pretty old game I already own that game on other systems so there's not a whole lot of really great games that you really pulled me in so that's I think the number one problem with the 3ds and why it really hasn't done so well now the second thing is priced and I think it's a little bit less room of an extent I mean typically game consoles when they come out they're gonna be a little expensive and you know as the time goes on also lower in price hit redesigns all I kind of stuff um but how are they done this was just immediately four months in tulip shopping a dollars off the price my thing that's going to leave eee ate a lot of that i don't really expect any more 3ds price cuts probably for quite some time and i think that what now that they cut the price down to I mean pretty much within you know Dee's levels i mean the dsi was 107 dollars and maybe a year or so ago so i think the price they really done a good job with however a bit of a bigger issue in my opinion is whether or not there's actually still room in the market for a dedicated handheld game console and well again a few years ago your the das with Game Boys everything like that there's no real competition the others you know cell phones or your place snake but not really any major competition compared to fly you know I'd full RPG or something on your Game Boy however these days there's a lot more competition in the form of smartphones so you know smartphone my opinion are not as good for gaming as something like a 3d s or even something like the PS Vita however what they are good at is doing a lot more so let's just take it for example 3d s ring something like an iPhone so of course you only have so much room in your pocket you don't wanna be carrying on the 3ds and iPhone and this and that and this and that so the kind of competing a little bit and just off the batch number one gonna look at you go home this my phone has a better camera it has mobile data so i can get on the internet check emails obviously they're gonna have a phone and it has a little bit more different kinds of that so it's not just you know straight like a game letter to do all kinds of other stuff on top of that with the iphone you have much much cheaper game so you know you might be able to get like dead space for 99 cents we're supposed to that same console pulled a game on the three days with probably 20 30 even forty dollars so i think that's a major problem with the 3ds and that's one of the things reasons why it's not doing so well in my opinion so what really think comes down to is whether or not there's actually still room for a dedicate game console i think a lot of people if you have a smartphone really are just not one to carry around something like a video or something like a 3d s i think what they really are going to have to focus on is people just don't have smartphones or really really good games that just aren't available smartphone so for example mario games pokemon games some of the really good franchises the nintendo has they need to hold onto those and really push them for the 3ds because to be honest even though the games generally are you're probably going to be a little bit better quality on the 3ds i'm still probably going to rather played on an iPhone or smartphone and something just because it's convened a have so what they really need to do is focus on getting really good games that i'm just not going to be able to play on any other platform and really try to a pup the you know the quality of both the 30s as well as they need ok so for the same segment of d3 live i'll be taking live questions from arrow in the chat as always every episode of d3 live is filming from the live audience we've got quite a few people in right now so squad just take a few questions well the new 3d s price help sales yeah definitely i don't think there's any question about that now well like I said it might be out like 250 dollars was an absolutely outrageous price definitely was a little bit expensive I think a lot of people were like an between that as well as you know the really lack of good games I think that kind of put a lot of people off but now with the better price and with all kinds of new games it's no Mario Kart and you know Star Fox and all these kind of games that are going to be coming out soon I definitely think it will help sales whether it'll be just a short term like metal bunk for a few months or will actually turn into good sales for a long time it remains to be seen but she I definitely think it will at least help some well minecraft come out to the iOS devices I never said sure I do know that they are working like for Android as well as on the Sony Xperia Play but as far as whether they're going to be putting out on iPhones everything anytime soon and that herb said sure I do know that they did they were talking about that a late like earlier this year but as far as any plans or when or you know anything like that I really don't know I haven't heard about it in a quite a while um hellas city affected the portable gaming devices personally I don't really think it has i mean i think some people still get emulators and stuff but i think emulators are going to be on any console emulators just it's just kind of what happens on me i'm pretty much any device that can support it um so i don't really think it's really majorly affected anything i mean i could be wrong but i don't really think it's a big deal well the graphical processing of the phones reach the low of the console oh yeah i definitely think so I mean if you take a look at some of the recent bones and recent you know processors I'm thing we've been coming out it's getting really really powerful and that's one advantage that phones have over something like a d a 3d a sorvete it is that when they come out they're going to be coming up for 3 4 5 years maybe even longer and they really can't up the process and car anything like that it's going to be the same graphics roughly of course they can do small adjustments but basically going to be about the same for the entire life the console what if those phones there's going to be something new about every six months and they're constantly going to be going up and up and up very similar to how consoles vs pc you know one console comes out for five or six years but computers obviously there's going to be new chips you harder that's going to constantly be raising it up so yeah definitely thing that phones will be surpassing the console before the end of the generation probably then you know make in the next year or two do I think there will be 3d phones in the short future I'm absolutely three folks on the market today such as HTC EVO 3d as far as we're going to be mainstream whether it's all phones in a 3d displays I'm not really totally convinced I think a lot of people are kind of pushing back against 3d it's cuz I'm what kind of turning back into a gimmick I know everyone's really excited like oh yeah we're gonna have 3d TV sweetie phones 3d tablets 3d anything and everything but a lot of people just aren't really satisfied with the 3d quality with you know how well it looks a lot of 10 times you're going to need glasses and this and that so I definitely think the 3d phones are not going to just disappear overnight but whether i should going to be mainstreaming you every single phone your next couple your skin d3d i really don't think so what how long do you think the whole 3d is crazy will the 3d crazy will last um you know it's kind of hard to say I mean like I said I think that it's starting to kind of cool off and then a lot of people like oh I'm gonna get a 3d TV I'm gonna get you know 3d this 3d that but a lot of people are like oh eh I've got to wear glasses or oh there's not a lot of content or you know this makes my eyes hurt I mean there's a lot of negatives to 3d right now so um I don't like this I don't really see it just going away I mean 3ds always been around it's been around for 50 60 years but this sort is really becoming mainstream and really you know just this big hype of everything's 3d I definitely think that's cooling off I don't think we'll be seeing that for too much longer now make that may change in the next couple years which they get better 3d displays that don't need glasses that don't give you headaches this and that but for now yeah I don't see any major 3d 3d crazy continuing for much longer anyway guys that's been about it for this episode of d3 live 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