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3DS Ambassadors: Are you satified with Nintendo's apology?

i knew how much i was paying when i bought it, i would rather them drop the price and actually have people to streetpass with than be the only dude in town with one. if anything, i trust their products more now.
 
I'm loving the GBA games, I'm so glad I bought the console early. Most of the games I've never played before either and their quality has been surprisingly high. I would never have bought these games if they hadn't come free, so I'm stoked. My copy of Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart are still in the mail and these GBA games have been a brilliant present in the mean time.

Hats off to Nintendo, brilliant job.
 
People who feel bad for free games are dumb.

What free games has Sony or Microsoft given you for a price drop?


(hacking doesn't count, Nintendo is awesome and unhackable)
 
Boney said:
Surprised so many people feel the NES games were bad.

Other than Iceclimbers they were all ranging from excellent to pretty good.
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Funnily enough Ice climbers is my most played of the NES set, oh if only the jumping wasn't ass it would be pretty awesome, Nintendo need to get cracking on a new one for the e-shop.
 
I never needed an apology. I got my money's worth from OoT and DoA. I'm an early adopter of hardware. I wouldn't have changed my decision had I known, because that would've meant waiting to play games I wanted. These GBA games are amazing, though. Never played many of them.
 
Naw, the 3DS was the biggest waste of money for me recently. I don't give a shit about old games I already played.
 
I got my 3DS as a gift, but even if I hadn't I still would have bought one myself . Like others have said, you knew what you were getting into before you bought it, so getting the free games was a nice bonus :D I know a lot of people like to wait for the redesigns/price drops on consoles, but I personally love being an early adopter.
 
They just game me like... 100 bucks worth of GBA games, most of which I really like. So yeah it's been pretty great.
 
I am ok with the games I got, although I was sort of thinking they would have given the 'ambassadors' something else, like maybe a couple day exclusive to download games earlier, or something similar...I do not know..I was open. I paid about 175 for my launch system, so I wasn't too upset (and the busted DSi I had traded in was not going to be usd any longer anyway.)

OTOH, My sister, who was 8 at the time, had saved her money for over six months and was pressured by my step-dad (a rather impulsive buyer anyway) to buy around the time of Ocarina (I think, it was well before the price drop rumors started to spread). He paid the difference, which was about 60 more dollars than she had, and would later get the money from chores, etc.

She does enjoy the games, but to her, 80 dollars is two other 3ds games she could have gotten to buy...mainly for something like Animal Crossing or things f that nature. She doesn't mind now...Mario Kart had taken over...but she did learn to WAIT for sales! =)
 
Vinegar Joe said:
I was fully content to pay that price. Obviously, otherwise I wouldn't have paid.

The issue is that Nintendo felt the need to drop the price so soon afterwards. It's the equivalent of being in a queue, paying $15 for a film which you were quite happy to pay, only to find out 2 minutes later that they sold the same film to the next guy in line for $10. Umm, what? Of course you'd have every right to be annoyed!

Everyone expects the price to drop sooner or later, just not that quickly.
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I guess if you care about such things... As for me, I enjoyed my 3DS immensely up until that price drop, as I was able to play the few quality titles that were released for it (SSFIV, PilotWings, Ghost Recon, Find Mii) and even some DS games I placed on the back burner (Ghost Trick, Radiata Historia, 999). I'm even enjoying it more so now that new games has started coming out for it (SM3DL, MK7, Pushmo, etc.). So if anything, I'm actually happy that they dropped the price if it means more people get to get this quality system.

More systems in people hands. More games that get developed for it. The happier we all are.

Being a 3DS Ambassador none withstanding, why would I have a problem with this if it means the system can now "survive" because of said price drop?

Nintendo's apology, in a literal sense, is icing on an already enticing cake. So yeah, I'm good money.
 
I wasn't expecting anything, so when it was announced I was happy, then they released the list of GBA games and I was ecstatic. I finished Minish Cap last night, and am balls deep in Fire Emblem today. Sooooo good.
 
i'm content because i didn't care about 'getting burned' in the first place. like PS3 and iPhone, if you are jumping in on something day 1 you should be prepared.
 
Never thought they had anything to apologise for, but then the status of a gaming device is about as worrisome as a cloudy day.
 
ryushe said:
So if anything, I'm actually happy that they dropped the price if it means more people get to get this quality system.
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Exactly. Judging by the mostly positive response in this thread it's a win-win situation for us and Nintendo. With a pile of free games and a much more healthy looking future for the console, I don't see how any 3DS owner can see the price drop as anything other than a good thing, one way or the other.
 
HELL. YES. They went beyond what I expected or hoped for. I knew what I was getting into at $250. Everybody should've. That Nintendo lowered the price by $80 so soon after doesn't equate to them owing me or anybody else anything. That they gave us 20 free games that are AMAZING? Yes. Forgiven.
 
It's better than any 'apology' from any other games company fuckup (xbox 1 pricedrop,rrod, psn downtime, fifa hacks come to mind.)

Especially rrod. MS sold several million lemons at $399 and should have given a hell of a lot more as compensation. Maybe a $300 refund.
 
I own and have beaten all the GBA games already on carts.... Same with the NES games which I have no intention of going back and playing. Still a very thoughtful gesture, and I'm overall quite pleased by nintendo's output this year.
 
I'd prefer to actually have the money I paid back in my pocket then a bunch of games I've already played. However, it was my own fault to buy their overpriced hardware in the first place and they didn't have to give me any thing at all (though I understand that they want to have positive PR), so yeah their "apology" was a good move.
 
I'm okay mainly because I got in on ambassador and the price drop. I haven't had any screen scratching either which I am happy and I guess lucky, so no complaints right now. I haven't really played it much though but that will change on Christmas day. Went from playing Donkey Kong 94 on VC when I first got it in early August and then playing Star Fox 64 3D for a week. Now I am enjoying my GBA ambassador games while waiting for Mario Land and Mario Kart. Interestingly enough, I just got Nintendogs and Cats for $5 and have had Ghost Recon since I got my 3DS(it was on sale for $17); both are unopened for some reason...
 
With the ambassador stuff sure, to be honest I'm more annoyed with how they've been treating the E-Shop with how slowly they've been releasing games. Still there are quite a few good games up there now and Pullbox is great so it kind of makes up for it.
 
20 games, which also give you Club Nintendo points you can now use to get more games?

Damn right I'm satisfied.
 
You usually don't get apologies when the price gets cut so I'm fine with what I got. I had never played Yoshi's Island, Wario Land 4 or Minish Cap so I'm happy.
 
I was fully happy with the purchase of my 3DS at launch even though I didn't buy any 3DS games for it until OoT (which I was waiting oh so patiently for)

I was just happy to have an analogue stick to play Dragons quest IX with and mah pokemans games without getting sore hands.
 
graywolf323 said:
that didn't happen on a few months after launch
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It wasn't a few months though.. it was closer to 6. I feel like the original Xbox had a price drop fairly soon after launch. I thought the PS3 was closer to a half year than a year but I guess I'm wrong about that.

The easiest comparison is the iPhone dropping in price from $600 to $400 as well within a few months of launch. If you buy at launch, you're going to get burned half the time. It's been a pretty decent mea culpa.
 
I had played most of the nes games, so I downloaded them and didn't use them much.

I got a gba shortly before a DS, so it's kind of a blind spot to me. Wario Land 4 is great.

It's not like I ever was angry at the price drop, but it's a cool apology.
 
I got more and better compensation for buying a product early than having my personal information stolen.

I think that may be one way fanboys are born.
 
Not really. I would have rather had a free 3DS game of my choice.
 
No, considering I've played all of these games before and playing them on the 3DS brings nothing to the experience. Maybe if we had gotten games that actually took advantage of the 3DS's features it'd be better.
 
I'm satisfied , the GBA games were more than enough for me and who knows when they will officially release these games to the E-Shop. It may take 3 years for them to release them all at the pace Nintendo goes for releases.
 
Natiko said:
No, considering I've played all of these games before and playing them on the 3DS brings nothing to the experience. Maybe if we had gotten games that actually took advantage of the 3DS's features it'd be better.
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This, I would've liked to have picked from 3DS software, or even just DSi software. My choices, not Nintendo's. Instead I got a bunch of early NES games, most of which I'd played to death or had horrible replay value in this age, some GBA games I already owned, and a few others I didn't really care about. And the one I was most interested in playing, Yoshi's Island, has too much blurring for me to want to mess with it.
 
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