3DS price cut

[Phoenixchild]

ds.ign.com/articles/118/1184670p1.html

it's dropping 80 bucks in North America, for those who are to lazy to read the article.

Nintendo announced a price cut of the 3DS from $249.99 to $169.99 in the U.S. effective August 12, 2011.

Japan will see a price cut from 25,000 yet to 15,000 yen on August 11. Australians will see a cut from AU$349.95 down to AU$250 on August 12. Pricing for Europe has not been announced.



If you purchased a 3DS anytime before the price cut date, you will receive 10 free Virtual Console NES and 10 free Gameboy Advance games. Users must connect to the Nintendo eShop at least once before the price cut date. They will then be automatically registered in the Nintendo 3DS Ambassador program.

The list of NES games include:

Super Mario Bros.
Donkey Kong Jr.
Balloon Fight
Ice Climber
The Legend of Zelda
+5 more

These titles are slated to become paid downloadable games, but Ambassadors get them early for free. "Once the paid versions of the games are posted to the Nintendo eShop later in the year, the updated versions will be available to Ambassadors for download at no cost."

The list of GBA games include:

Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3
Mario Kart: Super Circuit
Metroid Fusion
WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$
Mario vs. Donkey Kong
+5 more

Nintendo says the GBA games will be available exclusively to Ambassadors, and that it "currently has no plans to make these 10 games available to the general public on the Nintendo 3DS in the future."

[The REAL Joey]

From what i've been reading it sounds like a price cut down to 150-155 quid. Which in all honesty is a pretty hefty chunk. I got mine as a gift and I know they roughly paid around the £170 mark so it isn't that much of a loss and i'm more than happy with reimbursement of those games mentioned. I'd love for them to add RSE or FRLG with some compatibility to transfer Pokemon but we all know that's too much work and will detract from the remakes when they're eventually made.

Buuuut, I can see those who paid the UK RPP of £230 being a bit cheesed. That's almost a 100 quid drop. But then again, who'd be bonkers enough to buy one off the bat? *shrugs* Definitely a smart move though at the end of the day. With how competitive the Vita is priced, Nintendo really need to pull out the stops as sales have been lukewarm.

Interestingly enough, following this move, Satoru Iwata announced he's cutting his wages by half. He's still pocketing around one million in U.S. dollars but I sure wish more Western business CEOs would adopt a similar practice.

[Phoenixchild]

I bought mine at full price and I'm a little annoyed at this, mainly because I bought mine after reading a statement (can't be arsed to find source) that Nintendo would NOT be doing a price cut regardless, then what do they do a month later?

guess it's the same thing that happened to my psp go, Sony said all games would get psp go support digital downloads, now the damn thing has lost support all together (hurray for hacking and pirating psp games)


....seriously...anyone want my luck? I'll trade you D:

Also besides the head of nintendo the rest of the top dogs are taking a 30% cut to their payday as well.

when it comes to the games, I assume they will all be Mario games, seeing how 4/5 of the known ones are Mario (and the fourth is sort of a Mario esq game, just it's Wario)