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animegaming on 29 August 2014
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the_dengle said:
tbone51 said:
the_dengle said:

In a couple of months there are going to be four 3DS hardware SKUs being tracked in Media Create. I wonder if Nintendo will discontinue the oldest model soon?


Personally i wouldn't, If it makes them some money per unit, i do a price cut for both 3ds/xl and then fade out just the 3ds and keep XL not being discontinued!

3DS sells very little in Japan compared to the XL. I suppose if they cut the price it might sell better, but then just how much would they be making on each unit sold?

I would just drop the price of the XL (which is still selling very well), price the New 3DS roughly equal to the XL, and price the New XL where the XL used to be. Drop the basic 3DS price until stock runs out and don't re-stock. People who want the smaller size can buy the new one, encouraging faster adoption rate and thus a greater market for the New exclusives.

In the West it's even more dire, as with these two we'll have five 3DS models over here. They'll have to do something about that. They may consider discontinuing both the 3DS and the XL and replacing both with the New variants.


well they are starting to phase the original 3DS cause been awhile since i have seen a brand new one of those in stock anywhere and i bet the original XL will get the same treatment once these models come out.