Why Japanese haven’t bought a Nintendo 3DS
AdvertisementWith the Nintendo 3DS having been on sale since February of 2011, goo Ranking decided it was a good time to ask their monitor panel why they hadn’t bought a Nintendo 3DS.
Demographics
Between the 20th and 22nd of April 2011 1,110 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 60.5% of the sample were female, 10.8% in their teens, 16.2% in their twenties, 27.4% in their thirties, 26.4% in their forties, 9.3% in their fifties, and 9.9% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample. Also note that naturally those who had already bought a 3DS would not have answered the question.
My reason for not upgrading is that I haven’t even got round to playing the Nintendo DS we have lying around the house…
Ranking result
Q: Why haven’t you bought a Nintendo 3DS? (Sample size=1,110)
Rank Score 1 Too expensive, waiting for the price to come down 100 2 I’m satisfied with my DS, DSi 60.6 3 Worried about eye strain 41.2 4 I’d probably get motion sickness 39.4 5 Wasn’t much software available at launch 24.6 6 Will buy once a game I want is released, eg Pokemon, Zelda, Love Plus 18.5 7 I’m satisfied with my mobile phone, smartphone games 11.1 8 I’m satisfied with my Sony Playstation Portable 10.8 9 Battery life seems poor 8.0 10 Too heavy to be bothered carrying around 7.1 11 Can’t use Gameboy Advance cartridges 5.5 12 Not out in a colour I want 4.9 13 Can’t use Gameboy cartridges 4.3 14 I’m saving up for a Sony Next Generation Portable (NGP) 3.7 15 Want to get one with a bigger screen 3.1 16 Can’t move my DSi points across 2.8 17 Buttons look difficult to use 2.2 18 No Famicon/NES virtual console 1.8 19= Scaled-up DS games are ugly to look at 1.5 19= Friends didn’t buy, so I’m waiting until they do 1.5
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Maybe another big reason is because they need the money to rebuild their houses.
I think it’s important to note that the DSLL came out just before the 3DS. I thought that in combination with a lack of attractive software would be a big reason… the eye strain thing is kind of a surprise to me. I think it’s a safe bet to wait until they make an upgraded 3DS, just like they did with all of their other gameboy/DS systems several times.
Japanese are poor
I think there are simply too many electronic devices released too often for people to both make use of them and afford them! Console, portable console, tablets, mp3 players…. No-one can follow that!
That is the point poverty is unfortunately on the rise and that is very worrisome. 15% is shame poverty level!
If one had the money this is no big deal at all. Japanese have become lazy lately and it shows.
日本は最悪国になってしまった 負けるな日本！