| kitler53 said: e-books are small download size in comparison though. i just checked the rates of ATT and they charge $10 per GB. offhand, i think i remember that the 3DS carts will go up to 1.5 GB which means the delivery cost could be up to $15. |
3DS cards have a maximum of 2GB at launch, but that will likely go up. For comparison, DS cards had a maximum capacity of 128MB at launch, and now we have 512MB cards being used for commercial games.
Also, while others have mentioned offloading the costs associated with physical goods (manufacturing, distribution, retail) to the service provider, an additional pricing solution I could see would be adding a tiered system to the platform itself (similar to iPhone), meaning maybe 3DS would come at two pricepoints with 2 levels of functionality (say vanilla for $199, and 3G ready at $299, meaning the cost of the network is also figured into that extra $100 increase Kindle-style).
