On the 12th when Nintendo drops the suggested retail price of the 3DS to $169.99 do you think all stores will drop the price on that date? Or will some stores still keep the price at $250 for a while?
Hardware 3DS price drop
- Thread starter Bobbyloujo
- Start date
- Views 1,795
- Replies 14
Oooh okay. I didn't know how it all worked. I'll have to check if any stores around here have dropped the price yet.
D
Deleted User
Guest
Doesn't look like it. They have pre-orders for price-dropped 3DSes on their website, but they ship on August 12th, like they're supposed to. Until then, you have to buy the regular-price ones. Now if specific brick-and-mortar stores drop the price early to try to sell more units, that's a different story.Amiti said:
Actually they are dropping the price at as many walmarts as they can I'm guessing there is some weird law preventing walmart from shipping it out early but not selling it cheap early but who really knows
Check this site out http://www.technobuffalo.com/gaming/portab...rice-cut-early/
Check this site out http://www.technobuffalo.com/gaming/portab...rice-cut-early/
It looks like you're right. I called a Walmart near me, and it looks like they're selling 3DSes for $170. Better go out and get me one soon!
EDIT: What I think is happening is that overtly selling the 3DS for $170 on their website (which is easily researched) might draw some flak from Nintendo, who may want to preserve Ambassador status for those who paid the full $250. Selling them for $170 in-store, however, isn't quite as easy for Nintendo to catch, and they'll get a lot of sales from people who want both the price drop AND the free games.
EDIT: What I think is happening is that overtly selling the 3DS for $170 on their website (which is easily researched) might draw some flak from Nintendo, who may want to preserve Ambassador status for those who paid the full $250. Selling them for $170 in-store, however, isn't quite as easy for Nintendo to catch, and they'll get a lot of sales from people who want both the price drop AND the free games.
...What? I thought it was a mandatory price drop.ShadowSoldier said:
EDIT: And I'm talking about after August 12th.
Oh... I guess you're right.Quietlyawesome94 said:
Wow, and I thought it was mandatory this whole time.
It's not, but any game store with ANY sense will keep their price somewhere near the MSRP, or they'll take a huge sales hit to the companies that DO. In fact, some stores (mostly mom & pop shops) will try to undercut the MSRP in order to drum up sales. It's never a good business practice to sell something for a significantly higher price than your competitors.
I got mine at Best Buy on Wednesday 10/AUG/2011 for $170 (through a price match on Friday of the same week), and am still eligible for the ambassador program!
Similar threads
-
- Locked
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
@
SylverReZ:
If you want a good system to port it to, at least have a good programmer and knowledge.+1 -
-
-
-
@
Psionic Roshambo:
I didn't know they made an MSU cart for the Genesis.... I knew about the SNES one and the library for that is rather large but the Genesis one has very few games+1
-
-
@
SylverReZ:
An FPGA could probably replicate the chip's functionality without buying donor parts.+1
-
-
-
@
Psionic Roshambo:
Like not emulating the entire SNES but just a loader and the enhancement chips perhaps even slightly overclocked like FX-2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
@
SylverReZ:
@Psionic Roshambo, The Doom NES cartridges, a few batches were made. One was given to AVGN as seen in his Doom video.