Nintendo 3DS

[SUMIRE]

How does someone hate a console? Confuses me, I thought we loved videogames!

Yeah, slightly odd, but this is the Internet :P

[dvdx2]

isnt that 3d golf game out today? anyone tried it?

[Dogg Thang]

Seemingly not just a price cut but offering free games to early 3DS owners - http://www.businesswire.com/news/hom...69.99-Great-3D

That's just for the US I think so it remains to be seen what will happen over here but it's nice to see NES and GBA titles on that list.

[ItsThere]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-07-28-eu-3ds-price-cut-around-a-third

Oh my God yes. THAT IS A LOT OF FREE GAMES (for Europe).

[ItsThere]

Seemingly not just a price cut but offering free games to early 3DS owners - http://www.businesswire.com/news/hom...69.99-Great-3D

That's just for the US I think so it remains to be seen what will happen over here but it's nice to see NES and GBA titles on that list.

That list is immense. I would probably buy all of those GBA games anyway so this is a very good morning for me!

[Neon Ignition]

It's never a good thing for a company to have to do but the price cut will likely have the same effect the Xbox 1 did back in the day and ensure the 3DS sells tons over Xmas. It's great to see Mario 3DS and Mario Kart locked in pre-Xmas too.

[Dogg Thang]

Yep, nice to have those confirmed. And I do think those free games will draw a lot of people. Sure, they're old but there are top quality titles there and it's a LOT of free games to give away.

[davek22]

Did I read that right and I can get 30 free classics soon? That is fantastic news. Good of Nintendo to remember the early adopters. Price cut is great news too. Should be the push it needs.

[ItsThere]

Did I read that right and I can get 30 free classics soon? That is fantastic news. Good of Nintendo to remember the early adopters. Price cut is great news too. Should be the push it needs.

20 games, 10 NES and 10 GBA.

The GBA ones include Yoshi's Island, Wario Ware, Mario Kart: SS and Metroid Fusion.

All of those are excellent.

[davek22]

20 games, 10 NES and 10 GBA.The GBA ones include Yoshi's Island, Wario Ware, Mario Kart: SS and Metroid Fusion.All of those are excellent.

Brilliant, I would have been happy with just Yoshis Island but this is great.I just went on the eshop to buy Let's Golf. It's there but the purchase button is missing. Will try again later

Edit: the article says Nintendo announced these are totally exclusive titles for this offer and won't be available separately. That's bold keeping those titles back from the estore in future as they are the creme de la creme of GBA games

[toythatkills]

20 games, 10 NES and 10 GBA.

The GBA ones include Yoshi's Island, Wario Ware, Mario Kart: SS and Metroid Fusion.

All of those are excellent.

Those are the games in America, they're not confirmed for Europe though I imagine it'll be the same. Don't be counting your chickens just yet, though. Talk about money on the table, though, they're going to give all those games away and then say they have no plans to make them available for purchase for the people that get a 3DS in the future. What kind of insane decision is that?

Can anyone remember how the DS did early in its life? Is there a chance for a 3DS recovery or is it already dead?

[Neon Ignition]

I'm not too fussed with the NES games as they've aged too much for me to get much play out of them but the GBA list is amazing and that they look unlikely to see general release for a while sweetens the deal. If Minish Cap sneaks into that list of 10 too I'll be pure

Overall, 3DS sales haven't been that bad, they've just not met the expectations that system had and should have met. I've no doubt the price drop and Xmas line up will see number pick up dramatically. It's just Nintendo's arrogance it had to get past

[Mr M0by]

Of course there's always a chance for recovery. Only if it doesn't fly out at Christmas after the launch of two Mario games can it be considered to have fared poorly. It's certainly been way off the forecasted numbers so far though. I'm still selling through initial allocation of the Aqua Blue & only recently had to source some of the black model from other overstocked stores.

[Flabio]

I suspect they see this as a calculated risk. A price drop will certainly help sales, and they have to really do one ahead of the Vita launch anyway. But it's quite a hefty drop, so taking the double hit of compensating people who already bought in is imortant to diffuse the backlash.

If they've done their sums right, by the time the decent titles start to flow they'll have a bigger userbase and everything will work out nicely.

Where it falls down now is if the drop in price doesn't spike the sales, cause this sale price has to be much closer to selling at a loss than before (we're too early in the cycle for them to have made many manufacturing cost reductions).

[Neon Ignition]

Exactly, it's pretty much a necessity. With the arrival of the PSV at ?250 the 3DS's price is hard to justify and would also look high when the Wii U arrived too. The new price point fits in well with their existing price range and comes directly out of the profit margins Nintendo placed on the system. It's fine trying to make a ?70+ profit per unit but only if your selling them in the first place. The next thing Nintendo has to do is phase the NDS out so stop the confusion with the systems branding. If they do that then it should be smooth sailing, if they can't sell any with that price and line up then the Vita doesn't stand a chance.

Apparently Mario Kart 3DS is officially called Mario Kart 7 now, weird.