Why Japanese haven't bought a Nintendo 3DS: We Want a Sony PSP NGP!

Paul Sinclair • Jun 6, 2011 • Comments ()

With 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..."

3DS demo booth in Akihabara.jpg

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

Source goo Ranking [via What Japan Thinks]

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With 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.\n\n

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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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