Friday, July 29, 2011

3DS drops to $169.99 in August, early adopters given free games

The Nintendo 3DS launched on March 27 for the uncomfortably high price of $249.99. The system didn't exactly fly off the shelves, and Nintendo publicly admitted that the sales weren't meeting the company's internal estimates. The company has decided to attack this problem aggressively with a move that will be sure to annoy early adopters: the price of the 3DS hardware will be slashed to $169.99 starting on August 12.

That's an $80 drop in price from the original (about a third of the total cost), only four months since the system's launch. Nintendo has plans to salve the wounds of the early adopters, but it may not be enough.

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