Eh, the thing about the Nintendo Color TV game not including a power cord bugs me. Like all 1st generation plug n' play consoles (Atari, Coleco, etc), they ran on D or C cell batteries by default and you could buy a dedicated power cord if you were h-core and burnt through too many batteries. Same as with the Game Boy or Game Gear. Very rarely did any of those things come with power cords.
They seem to neglect that fact in the story, but oh well. Not the first time a journalist bent the truth to make their point and wont be the last.
On topic: At first I thought it was a pretty dick move on Nintendo's part, but then I realized that if I bought a New 3DS, there would be 4 or 5 chargers in my house I could use with it. Sooo in conclusion, I couldn't care less about the charger thing but wanted to point out the Color TV thing.