Probably the most talked about element from Tokyo Game Show 2011 was the slider add-on for the 3DS. However, despite the external similarities to the PS Vita, president of Sony Computer Entertainment Shuhei Yoshida doesn’t think that either that or the price cut were a byproduct of their system.
“Well it’s not like they looked at PS Vita and said ‘we need to do that as well’,” said Yoshida. “I don’t know. It’s clear that they didn’t believe a second analogue was necessary when they designed the 3DS, so I can only guess it was requested by Capcom’s side. Maybe a Capcom producer told Nintendo that to play Monster Hunter we need [two] analogue sticks. That I don’t know, so I can only guesstimate. It was a bit shocking to see what they came up with.”
“I don’t personally believe that they dropped the price of the 3DS to respond to our pricing. We didn’t price PS Vita to their price, either. We had that plan since the last couple years,” he added. “My personal guesstimate is that they have their business plan and goals to sell a certain amount of 3DS units, and they realized post-launch was that the pricing was not helping them to achieve the goal that they set. That’s my estimate.”
Source: Game Informer
