| superchunk said: Those of you who keep mentioning the Dollar to Yen ratio are being ignorant of the 3DS. Yen to Dollar ratio should have it priced around $300, however it launched at the same /10-ish scheme all Nintendo consoles do.. 25,000 yen price equated to $250.00 3DS, when if it really took the ratio it should have been ~$300. I think this disproves how much weight many of you are giving the weak dollar. |
Not at all actually. There is only so much an company can afford to sacrific for us gamers in terms of money. The dollar will effect the price. The 3DS is only $250 because it isn't that much stronger than the DS and since the screens are small adding 3D wasn't to costly. The cost of the tech difference between the DS and 3DS isn't vastly different and the basic features of the DS is featured in the 3DS and have had their costs lowered dramatically.
For consoles its different as each generation you have pretty decent leaps in power over the last generation. That isn't cheap to sell when the value of the dollar by 2013 will be half or less of its worth now.
