Yuji Naka has achieved a prolific career at Sega; his early work on the Phantasy Star series garnered him relative prestige, though it wasn't till his work on Sonic the Hedgehog in 1991 (and the later Sonic series) that gave him the title of "Sega's Miyamoto." He led the top-tier in-house development team Sonic Team for some time before breaking from Sega in 2006 to form independent games development studio PROPE.
In a corporate news brief today, Nintendo has announced an $80 price drop for Nintendo 3DS, effective August 12. The price slash comes less than six months after the launch of the handheld console, plagued by sluggish sales caused by a lackluster game library, an online distribution platform that his been critically dismissed as a pathetic joke1, and fierce competition2 from its predecessor, the Nintendo DSi.
For gamers of all kinds, not just Nintendo fans, the price drop should be cause for concern. Read on
