I'm reserving judgement on the system for my own use until I get to feel it in my hands and see it in person but to the actual question:
A $130 system to play Pokemon X/Y is a mighty tempting proposition for a lot of people. If my sister's kids were just a few years older I'd be buying them these and copies of Pokemon for Christmas no question. This has the potential for being a big seller for Nintendo however I don't think it's going to explode like a DSLite-like redesign. More like the GBA SP but not quite as big, maybe a few million YOY increase due to the redesign.
I'd be interested as to how much Nintendo will be making on these 2DSs and if this means we won't see a 3DS/3DS XL price cut until like 2016 (if they can maintain relatively high sales theres no need for it when they now have an low pricepoint entry device).








