I have (unfortunatley) already purchased a 3DS but if I hadn't I definitely wouldn't be buying one after the announcment of the Expansion Slide Pad. It's obvious Nintendo will redesign the console within the next 12 months, so why would anyone buy the current model knowing this.
IMO Nintendo has already used their get out of jail free card with the sudden price drop. I don't see consumers accecpting a second insult and I think that future sales might reflect this. People largely ignored the Dreamcast because if the impeding PS2 and I think the same thing might happen with the 3DS against the Vita.
I personally can't believe Nintendo are doing this. It's the sort of panic tactics Sega used with the mega cd against the snes and 32x against the early 32Bit gen systems. Or Atari pretending the 5200 never existed then releasing the 7800.
