Author Topic: 3DS MAJOR price drop incoming + tons of free games for early adopters? (Read 51346 times)

alegoicoe · « **Reply #25 on:** July 28, 2011, 12:41:52 PM »

Finally i have an incentive to pick up a 3DS, no doubt i be picking one up august 12 along with a copy of Ocarina of Time, good day. Oh by the way GREATEST NEWS EVER!!!

noname2200 · « **Reply #26 on:** July 28, 2011, 12:46:26 PM »

At first I was annoyed at paying the full price when the price drop happened so early on. But the 20 free games has gone a fair way to pacifying me.

Quote from: TJ Spyke on July 28, 2011, 05:51:05 AM

The Japanese price will be $193. What price gouging? The US price is still cheapest.

Does the Japanese price include sales tax as it does in Europe, or is that separate like in the US?

oohhboy · « **Reply #27 on:** July 28, 2011, 01:08:28 PM »

In Japan 5% is added at the till. However if your a tourist you can get that exempt if you make big purchases, like say a GameCube, 4 controllers and games. But you maybe hit with sales tax at customs back in your home country. Most of the time customs won't look at you twice since the value of the items fall under another threshold meant to allow importation of goods for personal use and not to tie down the system billing every single person coming through the gate to check for taxable items.

noname2200 · « **Reply #28 on:** July 28, 2011, 01:22:06 PM »

Quote from: oohhboy on July 28, 2011, 01:08:28 PM

In Japan 5% is added at the till. However if your a tourist you can get that exempt if you make big purchases, like say a GameCube, 4 controllers and games. But you maybe hit with sales tax at customs back in your home country. Most of the time customs won't look at you twice since the value of the items fall under another threshold meant to allow importation of goods for personal use and not to tie down the system billing every single person coming through the gate to check for taxable items.

Good to know. Thanks!

Chozo Ghost · « **Reply #29 on:** July 28, 2011, 02:29:40 PM »

Quote from: KisakiProject on July 28, 2011, 10:29:29 AM

Well I feel like an idiot buying a 3DS day one. I should have waited. Picked one up in Aug with Zelda. Oh well.

At least I get 20 free games.

I'm glad you get 20 games for being an early adopter and paying the outrageous price the 3DS launched at, but let's be clear. You deserve those 20 games as compensation. They are not "Free" because it is something you deserve and Nintendo owes to you.

TJ Spyke · « **Reply #30 on:** July 28, 2011, 02:45:14 PM »

What makes you think you "deserve" to get $130+ worth of free games? Companies don't owe you any thing just because they drop the price after you bought it. I was mad when I bought F-Zero GX for $50+tax and they dropped the price to $20 a few days later, but I wasn't demanding they compensate me for it.

oohhboy · « **Reply #31 on:** July 28, 2011, 02:54:16 PM »

And there's the TJ Spyke we all know and love.

oohhboy · « **Reply #32 on:** July 28, 2011, 03:22:58 PM »

Ahh **** sandwich. Article here.

Australian price is at $249.95AUD or $275.31USD +61%
NZ price is $343.9NZD or $300.17USD +76%!

No new price information as of yet out of europe, However the Ambassador program has been confirmed in full.

gbuell · « **Reply #33 on:** July 28, 2011, 04:14:33 PM »

Quote from: Chozo Ghost on July 28, 2011, 02:29:40 PM

Quote from: KisakiProject on July 28, 2011, 10:29:29 AM
Well I feel like an idiot buying a 3DS day one. I should have waited. Picked one up in Aug with Zelda. Oh well.

At least I get 20 free games.

I'm glad you get 20 games for being an early adopter and paying the outrageous price the 3DS launched at, but let's be clear. You deserve those 20 games as compensation. They are not "Free" because it is something you deserve and Nintendo owes to you.

That is absolutely untrue. For paying $249 for the 3DS at launch, Nintendo owes you exactly one thing: a 3DS at launch.

Mop it up · « **Reply #34 on:** July 28, 2011, 06:38:53 PM »

If they want to benefit early adapters then they should cut the price of games too, they really should be $35 instead of $40.

TJ Spyke · « **Reply #35 on:** July 28, 2011, 07:21:19 PM »

Quote from: oohhboy on July 28, 2011, 02:54:16 PM

And there's the TJ Spyke we all know and love.

What? Because I think it's kind of a douche thing to think a company "owes" you something because you bought their product despite bitching about the price? No one forced you to pay for it, and Nintendo is choosing to reward those who bought the system early on.

Chozo Ghost · « **Reply #36 on:** July 28, 2011, 09:05:40 PM »

But without the fans who buy the products companies like Nintendo wouldn't exist, so its in their best interest to make customers happy. Haven't you ever heard the saying that "the customer is always right"?

sorry, edited instead of replied -UB

UncleBob · « **Reply #37 on:** July 28, 2011, 09:11:08 PM »

Without the company making the products, the fans wouldn't exist either.

It's a simple, business relationship. You give a company money, they give you a product. Any expectations beyond that are only in your head.

BranDonk Kong · « **Reply #38 on:** July 28, 2011, 09:33:35 PM »

Best deal - buy within 30 days (now) of the price drop, get your free games, and then get your $80 back. Just about every store has a 30 day price guarantee.

Adrock · « **Reply #39 on:** July 29, 2011, 12:46:36 AM »

I'm already considering on doing that after I read a comment on Ars Technica. I've been playing my DSi a lot over the past week or so and I find the battery on that to be unacceptable so I still find the battery life on 3DS to be ungodly atrocious, but this is probably too good of a deal to pass up.

bustin98 · « **Reply #40 on:** July 29, 2011, 01:34:05 AM »

Target offers a price guarantee if the item shows up in an ad cheaper than you bought it in the week of the purchase or the following week. Anyone know of other specific retailers that do price guarantees and what their policies are?

Mop it up · « **Reply #41 on:** July 29, 2011, 01:40:19 AM »

I have a feeling that retailers are going to take some kind of measure so they don't have to honour the difference of the impending price cut. For example, Amazon is currently taking pre-orders for the $169.99 3DS which is a separately listing from the $249.99 version, so that kind of thing probably wouldn't work with them.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #42 on:** July 29, 2011, 01:41:51 AM »

Best Buy has a 30 day price guarantee.

oohhboy · « **Reply #43 on:** July 29, 2011, 08:06:30 AM »

Such a black and white relationship is what it is if the only thing you consider about a business is a spread sheet. There are many factors that are hard or impossible to measure that make real impact on the bottom line. Inside the company there are things like employee moral, happiness, loyalty, work environment, politics. Outside, brand loyalty, product satisfaction, goodwill, cultural sensitivities, habits, psychology(Not as rational is one would think).

They could have just cut the price and leave nothing for the early adopters. It would have made perfect sense to a robot accountant. It doesn't take into account of the unknowns. By doing so they drain these non-spreadsheetable resources. Just look at Nintendo's current position, they miss read the buying power of the consumers based effectively on one showing at E3 resulting in was should have been a Wii-like launch into something that can only be considered flaccid. This is a very real effect of something that isn't directly derivable from numbers alone.

In a logical perfect world it is a "Simple business relationship", but in the real world it isn't.

Adrock · « **Reply #44 on:** July 29, 2011, 08:25:24 AM »

It's not much of a guarantee if retailers don't honor it. I'm going to Best Buy today to inquire.

gbuell · « **Reply #45 on:** July 29, 2011, 08:40:34 AM »

Quote from: Chozo Ghost on July 28, 2011, 09:05:40 PM

Haven't you ever heard the saying that "the customer is always right"?

Sometimes I want to murder whoever came up with that terrible, terrible phrase.

Shaymin · « **Reply #46 on:** July 29, 2011, 08:43:32 AM »

I really hope stores don't require you to return the physical system and take a new one home (that wouldn't get the freebies) to get the price protection. I can't see it happening, though.

Adrock · « **Reply #47 on:** July 29, 2011, 09:09:29 AM »

About a week after I bought my current (now shitty) phone, AT&T ran a "$100 off all Blackberry phones" promotion. Even though my phone literally came out the day I bought it, it was included in the sale and the store associate very simply said I was eligible for the promotion since I was within the price guarantee period and put $100 back on my debit card.

I presume that's how it works at other retailers. If I buy 3DS next week and go back on August 12 to price match, they'll return the difference in whatever method of payment you originally used. I don't think you have to return the original system unless it was faulty or something.

noname2200 · « **Reply #48 on:** July 29, 2011, 12:24:23 PM »

Quote from: gbuell on July 29, 2011, 08:40:34 AM

Quote from: Chozo Ghost on July 28, 2011, 09:05:40 PM
Haven't you ever heard the saying that "the customer is always right"?

Sometimes I want to murder whoever came up with that terrible, terrible phrase.

It's true though. It doesn't matter how fair or logical the customer is, he's not going to give you his money if you don't give him what he wants.

Anyhow, I hope that retailers do price-matching. I don't see why they wouldn't.

UncleBob · « **Reply #49 on:** July 29, 2011, 12:29:06 PM »

The *only* potential issue I can see with price adjustments is, in my experience, the retailer will "return" your 3DS (at the old price) then "resell" the same 3DS (at the new price).

When they return/resell, they'll scan the serial number.

Ideally, this should flag to Nintendo that you didn't pay the full price for your system.

It's up to Nintendo if this would then render your system ineligible for the free games.

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Author Topic: 3DS MAJOR price drop incoming + tons of free games for early adopters? (Read 51346 times)