I actually believe Nintendo has done something very smart with how they handled the price cut of the 3DS ...
When you look at development costs and manufacturing/delivery costs of what Nintendo is giving away to to early adopters, Nintendo is giving away games and there is no real cost associated to it other than the opportunity costs. At the same time, most of the people I know who already bought a 3DS believe that these free games (more or less) fully compensates them for the 3DS price reduction.
If Nintendo can find similar ways to reward people who own their consoles everytime they reduce the price of their system without being too expensive for Nintendo, Nintendo could effectively eliminate people's concern about buying future systems before price cuts. Essentially, if they paired up each price reduction (which should be relatively small from now on) with a handful of free games for the NES and Gameboy virtual console people will get over any "hard-feelings" they have about price cuts from Nintendo platforms.
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