“But the cut in price, while welcome, still fails to solve the single most fundamental issue with the 3DS as of July 2011: There are no damn games. The last legitimate hit was The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time 3D, but even that wasn’t enough to move a sizable number of consoles. Throughout the history of game consoles, one thing has remained true above all others: A game console without games is no game console at all.”
Ricardo Bilton’s absolutely right. A fair number of Apple pundits have used the price cut to crow about how this is a sign that Apple is superior to Nintendo, and that the iPad and iPhone are better gaming systems – that’s misguided, at best. The 3DS is a fine game system in terms of hardware, but Nintendo’s major failure here has been to get a good library together out the gate. And that’s somewhere Apple has succeeded greatly – in getting together a huge software ecosystem for its iOS hardware.