Yeah, I have to agree. Price drops like this within a year (DK3D came out last May) of some of these games in the middle of a system's lifecycle is new for Nintendo. The idea that Nintendo first-party games 'retain full retail price far longer than the competitors' has long been trumpeted by people praising the company as a sign of their development strength. I find it at least notable that they are, for the first time, abandoning the practice of maintaining full retail prices for top games on current systems in the middle (one supposes) of the system's life cycle.
Could this point to a new handheld soon? That wouldn't be my first guess, but it would be cool. I think this is just because of the fact that although 3DS is doing great, it's not on track with the original DS, and they are hoping to spur sales.
It makes one wonder: how many of those amazing original DS system sales were to people only getting it because of the abundance of Flash Cards for playing pirated games?
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