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3DS launching March 27 at $250 in the US!
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outunderthestars
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dankir said:
I'm calling it now. The PSP2 will retail for $249.99 as well.
AmericanNinja
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$250 is waaay too much. It will fail miserably.
charlequin
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I will not be buying a 3DS at launch and probably not at the launch price if I can remotely get away with it (I tremendously doubt Nintendo will be able to maintain a $250 price indefinitely) but out of the two price points we were looking at today this is the vaguely-almost-reasonable one rather than the outlandishly-unacceptable one. I don't think the system will underperform significantly as a result of this price.
Vyse The Legend
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For those of us who preordered at Gamestop, should we call and tell them the color we want?
dankir said:
It would have to be alien technology to get more than $300 from me.
It's probably an unpopular opinion in this thread, but the top goal for PSP2 needs to be Modern Warfare online. That's the killer app which could make a high-spec handheld successful in the US. Anything less, and people will stick with Angry Birds.
$249 US is the price I expected. With the Aussie dollar at near parity levels, I would love to see it come in at $249 AU. Its wishful thinking most likely, I expect it to be $299 and would not be surprised at $349 Aussie dollars.
The current revision of the DS has a higher RRP than when it launched six years ago (in Australia anyway). People waiting for a price drop are going to be waiting a long time IMO, theres every chance the first 3DS revision will come in higher than $249 US.
The current revision of the DS has a higher RRP than when it launched six years ago (in Australia anyway). People waiting for a price drop are going to be waiting a long time IMO, theres every chance the first 3DS revision will come in higher than $249 US.
DenogginizerOS
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The launch line-up and the price are disappointing to me. I will be waiting. This may be the most paltry launch line-up for a Nintendo system ever. At least the Nintendo 64 had Mario 64.
outunderthestars
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AmericanNinja said:
Alright, that pretty much ensures its success.
Zombie James
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$250 for a handheld is way too much. I can only imagine what their next console will cost.
ItWasMeantToBe19
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Launch window lineup is pretty disappointing. Thought they would be able to get two of Kid Icarus, Paper Mario, OoT, MGS3, and SF64 out within the first three months instead of none.
charlequin said:
I think you massively underestimate the price ceiling people have with portable devices.
Buying any console at launch and at Launch price is almost always not value driven, as you have a tiny library and somewhat inflated launch pricing.
But I suspect we'll have iterations of 3DS' at $250 for years, possible for the entire generation. $250 today isn't what it used to be, even just 5 years ago. As I noted, the subsidy on the system is already $50 just for them to sell it in the NA market.
SolarPowered
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TrueFlashbladeGAF said:
Sometimes I get so optimistic when it comes to the 3DS!
Yeah okay...AmericanNinja said:
I'm under the impression that most of those guys revised their opinions upwards to $249.DennisK4 said:
The really crazy folks actually expected(or maybe wanted) the price to be $300.
amishpriest99
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$250 is fine by me. It could always be worse.
Gillian Seed
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OOT is a launch title right?
SolarPowered said:True
Sometimes I get so optimistic when it comes to the 3DS!
Yeah okay...
I'm under the impression that most of those guys revised their opinions upwards to $249.
The really crazy folks actually expected(or maybe wanted) the price to be $300.
That's unfair ,the price is up to $300 in other territories. If this sells like crazy, then $300 may have actually been the right launch price.
EmCeeGramr
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People need to remember that the original DS had a fucking terrible launch lineup. There was a remixed, updated port of Mario 64 that you controlled with a D-Pad or touchscreen... and that was kinda it.
These were the games you got for the first month of the DS's life in North America:
Yeah. Fucking Ping Pals and Sprung.
The 3DS launch lineup is... well, a launch lineup, but the stuff slated for the first three months is better than what the DS got by a good country mile.
These were the games you got for the first month of the DS's life in North America:
Yeah. Fucking Ping Pals and Sprung.
The 3DS launch lineup is... well, a launch lineup, but the stuff slated for the first three months is better than what the DS got by a good country mile.
RebornYeti
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Tempting, but I don't want to make the mistake of buying something when the better version will be out a year later anyway.
SolarPowered
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$300 in the US was out of line no matter how anyone could try to rationalize it. It runs completely counter to just about everything Nintendo has tried to do with the Nintendo brand since the Wii and DS came about.apana said:
It'd be insane to argue that the price could be justified by Nintendo in it's current form. It's be predictable if this were Sony or Microsoft, but those guys are light years away from Nintendo in terms of strategy and design. Oh, and don't take the "crazy people" comment to heart either, I was just being a bit hyperbolic. If you went back and checked you would see that most of the people who expected that price also seemed like the ones who wanted an excuse not to buy it though.
I'm just generalizing a bit of course...
This would seal the deal for me as well. It's definitely one of my favorite GC games and one of my top five favorite games of all time.apana said:
Stumpokapow
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EmCeeGramr said:
hahaha hating on Feel the Magic? you're straight chumpin'!