3DS dev costs may prohibit shovelware

[News Portal]

Bless the DS, for it has surely earned its place as the best-selling console of all time by being well-featured, infinitely usable, and solid as a rock - even if it took countless hardware revisions to get there. But curse it with your next breath, because its thrifty development costs are responsible for a ridiculous amount of embarrassing, reputation-damaging, bargain-bin-clogging shovelware.

Not the 3DS! [comp=39]Nintendo[/comp] president Satoru Iwata has admitted the costs of creating software for the 3D-ready handheld approach that of the Wii.

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[sunnycoast]

"Not the 3DS! Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has admitted the costs of creating software for the 3D-ready handheld approach that of the Wii"

Um. There is a ton of shovelware on the Wii too. Maybe even more than the DS. So how exactly does this stop garbage games again?

[Xwaste]

"Not the 3DS! Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has admitted the costs of creating software for the 3D-ready handheld approach that of the Wii"

Um. There is a ton of shovelware on the Wii too. Maybe even more than the DS. So how exactly does this stop garbage games again?

My thoughts exactly.

[Electrode]

Nobody forces you to buy shovelware.

[vcatkiller]

Correct. However, if the shovelware to good stuff ratio tilts too far in the shovelware direction, it reduces the wish to shovel through the garbage in the hope that you'll find a gem. That's the big problem with the DS/Wii at the moment I think. (I haven't bought a new DS game in ages)