If this is really true... REVENGE ON NINTENDO.
I kinda by impulse bought the 3DS ,and regret it for so much time.
Only have a single game "Resident Evil Revelations" and it cost me 60€ with 2nd analog stick (50€ is the normal game price here in Portugal).
I'm bloody tired of their gaming prices.
Even a crappy little 2D game here cost from 35 to 50€. And like a gameboy 1 black and white game from the 80's cost like 6€ each for download.
Even in the 90's I could buy a cassette with like 50 games in it for like 20€ (and included some that nintendo is selling at 6€ each).
Even on E-bay used games look expensive to me, like around 25€+shipping each, and some are just simple 2D games (usually most are from US and full price gets around 40€ with the shipping).
I guess Portable console games are being sold at the price of X360 and PS3 games (some people seem to have no sense in selling a little 2D game for the price of a game that cost 100 million $ to make like GTA, and has crazy textures+technology in them that aren't meant for portability).
ps: My 3DS is OFF inside my drawer for more than a year, and I can't buy those EXPENSIVE games, since I can buy brand new games for the PC like BF3 for 16€, Ravaged for 3.99€
Keep Cool
Really? Revenge? Dude, you're making it a bit too personal for no reason...
If you would've said this about a Sony console - I might agree, since they actually attacked us as consumers, both literally (planting rootkits on PCs and compromising your security without letting you know, for example) and verbally (stating that the PS3 is expensive because they want it to be something that people want to work hard to get).
But Nintendo? All they did was make a nice console, put some good protection in there and charged a reasonable amount of money for games. While I do think that 50€ is an exorbitant price for a game - I'd suggest that you either get it used, get it on eshop (I found most games retail games there to be ~35€ - ~45€) or pirate if you so desire.
I can tell you that while I think that games should be cheaper, I can also understand Nintendo's reasoning - there are, and always will be, less 3ds devices out there compared to iphones/android phones. In order to make it lucrative for devs, they charge more per item, as fewer will be sold due to the install base. In addition, I really don't think that there are many phone games that compare in scope to something like a AAA 3DS game such as Mario 3d, animal crossing, pokemon or fire emblem.
Oh, and btw, I haven't seen a new GTA sell for less than 60€ since GTA3 - a 15€ difference is a pretty big one.
All that being said - I'm probably going to get a flash card - I do believe that some games are worth the investment, but I can't know if I don't actually play them - I believe in "play, then pay", and not vice versa, unless prices are low enough for an impulse purchase (thanks steam and humble bundle
).
Oh and speaking of impulse buys - come on! You can buy a console for over 150€ (if it's the old 3ds, as XL costs more) on a whim, but spending a third of that amount on a game that will give you many hours of enjoyment is something that you want to take revenge on? that's just weird.