Nintendo 3DS

[Decider-VT]

In this climate HMV'll charge ?700

Nope. You'll have to buy a Wii to be able to pre-order, though. :P

[elaniel]

If retailers are setting the price, I will be importing from the USA. Trying to think hopeful that it will spark a price war in the UK, but obviously it won't happen that way.

[koopatroopa90]

They should have at least given us the trade price so we can add a sensible increase to that!

Exactly what I was thinking.

Original DS was ?129.99 wasnt it? I got mine from Canada (was $299 worked out ?120 with Mario 64) so can't remember exactly.

[dataDave]

I reckon Tesco will be the cheapest place to get one.

[Family Fry]

Must have missed this info, from Nintendos Twiter.

"With Nintendo #3DS, there is only 1 friend code necessary! You only need to register it once?the codes are not software-dependent. #3DSevent"

[spagmasterswift]

I dont care what price they charge - Shaun The Sheep is too good to miss.

[InvisibleKid]

Announcing a price for Japan, for the US and not for Europe? It just makes me think "oh well, just another way in which Nintendo shafts the Europeans..".

Honestly, they're freaking idiots.

Only things I learnt from the whole thing was:
1) Release date - 25th March
2) There's one friend code per system; not per game.

That's it.

[endo]

You say that, but what about Shaun the Sheep? C'mon, it's Shaun the Sheep. In 3D! Nintendo catering for the hardcore!

What a waste of an hour that was.

[Richie_uk]

The entire event was a waste of time and money, no mention on launch titles, no mention on price..all this rubbish from iwata about equality for all regions...then this happens....

[elaniel]

Anyone after a US one? Priority shipping (plus customs included in price) £190 from Amazon USA.

[Daragon]

It's the "I'm a mom" E3 fiasco all over again!

Someone needs to be fired over this. Perhaps time to look for ANOTHER new president of Nintendo Europe?

[JSR]

They didn't announce the price because it will be up to the distributor of each country. Nintendo only distributes it's products to a couple of countries in Europe. The rest is handles by independent importers, who set their own prices.

Let me emphasize this next line with capitalized letters: NO STORES WILL BE ABLE TO CHARGE MORE THAN THE MARKET PRICE FOR THE CONSOLE. All consoles ship to stores for almost the same price as the store sell it for, that's the way it's been for years, and will always be. The reason for this is because of price competition. It's actually common sense: If store A sold 3DS with a 20% profit, why wouldn't store B sell it with a 15% profit and getting more sales due to a lower price? Then store C would sell it even cheaper etc. Surely you get the picture.

There is NO reason to speculate as wildly as some of you have done in here, you have nothing to base it on. The 3DS will cost what it's supposed to cost when it hit stores, and the price difference from store to store will be a maximum of 10% of the total price, and if so many stores will sell it at a loss, to increase sales.

[Flabio]

Which is fair enough, but why not TELL us what that price IS?

[InvisibleKid]

Yeah I get that Alex; but they could at least give us a ball park figure!

[InvisibleKid]

HMV are taking orders for £229. Ordered. :'(