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Talbain
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 Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 1:02 pm |
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I won't be buying any of them for the foreseeable future. The only reason I could see myself buying one is because Hidetaka Miyazaki is doing some cool new thing and not releasing it to PC for some reason.
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Talbain
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| Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 8:11 pm |
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| notbov wrote: |
| I read some recent data that, although the 3DS has fallen in line with the DS sales curve recently, it's pushing far, far less software than the DS did. Now, whether that's down to less or shovelware, the economy or more savvy consumers is probably a post mortem discussion, but it's got to be worrying for some companies. |
It's actually probably due to the fact that people can no longer pirate software on it. That might sound strange to say, but there are more and more studies that seem to show that piracy especially seems to drive software sales, even of bad software. Piracy also drove sales of a TON of hardware, meaning that more people had a DS to potentially buy games on. It's the reason why I feel the Ouya will never take off, not because it lacks software but because they have no market share in hardware.
The other major factor, aside from the lack of novelty, is Kickstarter. People are finding their weird quirky games differently now.
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Talbain
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| Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2013 12:29 pm |
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| Booter wrote: |
| Talbain wrote: |
| Piracy also drove sales of a TON of hardware, meaning that more people had a DS to potentially buy games on. It's the reason why I feel the Ouya will never take off, not because it lacks software but because they have no market share in hardware. |
So you're saying that:
Software piracy drives hardware sales
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NDS software piracy was a thing and drove NDS hardware sales
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Ouya software piracy is a thing but will not drive Ouya hardware sales
Wonderful logic! You've really contributed well to your fellow humons with this one. |
The majority of Ouya's software is not exclusive, and it's hard to reason with somebody that they should buy a console when most of the games will run readily on hardware they already own (which yes, assumes ownership of a PC, but if you're considering buying an Ouya, you have a PC already). Or, more to the point, a lot of people bought DSes to play games exclusive to the platform. This is not the case with Ouya.
I don't think the logic is flawed except as you presented it: free of context. Granted, I didn't acknowledge the circumstances either (I took them as implied), and that is my fault. Apologies.
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