3DS Preorders Avaliable

[Pong20302000]

Just to reiterate

1) It's an estimate
2) Australian dollars, not US dollars
3) Australia is an expensive place to buy games.

Look, here's a Xbox 360 slim pre-order page on the same site. 449AUD.
http://www.ebgames.com.au/xbox360-150845-X...onsole-Xbox-360

So that means, after converting the currency, that the 360 slim is £260 in the UK and $390 in the US, right? No.

£199 delivered in the UK
http://www.play.com/Games/Xbox360/4-/15570...DD/Product.html

$299 in the US
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/28943/E...pping_Today.php

So untwist your panties and chill the fuck out.

You can get a Xbox360 Slim in UK at £190, thats the cost that Play are buying them at

 

[Maikel Steneker]

I agree with BlueStar, it's just an estimate and a way to sell preorders without losing money.

I don't know how high the 3DS price will be, but I can't imagine it being a lot over 200 dollars. That said, the DS prices have been going up slowly. The DS launched for 150 euros, and despite the declining prices of the hardware the DSi costs 180 euros. Then again, the DSi and DS Lite prices were recently lowered, so even a price under 200 euros is possible.

 

[Gullwing]

Well as long as the price is in Australian Dollars and games in Australia are pretty expensive, I would say that in US and EUR it would cost like 150-200 dollars/ euros

 

[granville]

There's a fair chance old models will get a new price cut before the 3DS arrives, or at the launch. I don't think it unlikely anyways.

 

[GameWinner]

Ouch, that's kinda high right now!

 

[phoenixclaws]

There's a fair chance old models will get a new price cut before the 3DS arrives, or at the launch. I don't think it unlikely anyways.

This would definitely make sense since the 3DS is supposed to be the official successor to the DS line and the DS titles are to be Backwards Compatible.
So I'd expect the DSL to get a price cut and most likely the DSi and maybe a little on the DSiXL. Yet to be determined though. Gotta love speculation.

 

[GentleFist]

if this isn't a joke im really shocked, doesn't mean i won't buy it but that much money for a nintendo handheld...

 

[AzuraSky]

Money marking machine. Though i would still buy it LOL. I'll just think of it as i'm saving money on games xD *prays for flashcart xD*

 

[Arwen20]

Well I hope it is not this expensive. But isn't it a little early for pre-orders? Nintendo hasn't even announced a concrete date yet. Even so, I will be preording one when they become available. If it doesn't come out until 2011 I have time to save.

 

[DSGamer64]

So just over 300 CAD then huh? That's not too bad. People need to take into account the hardware and the power of the system. The PSP is still more expensive then the DSi and is not that much more powerful. If this thing is pushing GC/Wii level graphics then of course it's going to be expensive/

 

[chartube12]

Old interview in gameinformer from nintendo, stated they will never sale a system for more than 249.99 in US dollars. It was a promise made by Satoru Iwata himself. If nintendo was to break this promise, Its almost certainty there would be a major backlash in the america game commute.

 

[altorn]

over 300CAD at launch is good enough for me..
will buy it about a month or 2 after though..

if the preorder price comes with a couple of 3DS games, or even just the KID ICARUS one, I'd buy it right away.

 

[Makar]

Old interview in gameinformer from nintendo, stated they will never sale a system for more than 249.99 in US dollars. It was a promise made by Satoru Iwata himself. If nintendo was to break this promise, Its almost certainty there would be a major backlash in the america game commute.

I like. 250 seems like a good price to me but it would be amazing if it was 200...

 

[Infinite Zero]

LOL guess i'd have to wait for 2 years for the price to get low

 

[imz]

I'm not going to buy the first release, I'll wait 2 years for the 'lite' version to come out which will have improved features

 

[KingVamp]

no black one and it cost that much money

!!!!!

doesn't sound like Nintendo

 

[Sonicslasher]

If Nintendo hasn't even shown their final product yet, what makes you think they would have set a price now?

 

[gameboy13]

That looks kinda expensive to me. It costs more than a PS3!

 

[Snappo]

Are you serious $350? FFFFFFFFFFFF.
EDIT: Better hope EB is wrong, it's not really Nintendo's style.

 

[Mikehoncho16]

Seriously, there's no way the 3DS is going to be $300 USD, thats a joke, Nintendo hasn't released a price yet and EB Games is already pulling bullshit out of their asses to make bank on preorders. ATTN: THERE'S NO WAY THIS IS THE FINAL PRICE SO CALM DOWN AND WAIT LIKE A WEEK, WE'LL PROBABLY HAVE A REAL PRICE BY THEN!