I don't think Nintendo cares if anybody replaces their current 3DS with the New 3DS, the New 3DS is going to be what is manufactured, and they will quit making the current 3DS. So anybody that buys a 3DS will have to buy a New 3DS, once they start to sell them to the public and the current 3DS is sold out. Kind of like when Sony quit making the phat version of their PS2 and PS3, did Sony care if anybody replaced their phat with a slim, I doubt it. You know that there are the people that have to have the latest thing, just like all those people that owned an iPhone 4 and were waiting in line at the apple store to get an iPhone 5.