Just gonna post this from a previous thread:
You know vg, the more I think about it, the more I wonder how much it costs to manufacture one of these chargers in question. We're used to getting a charger right out of the box for any electronic at an agreed-to price but how often do we consider if the price of the charger was factored into the total price for any hardware? How often, when we buy anything, do we start counting up the total cost of getting said product from manufacturing plants to store shelves? Have we benefited from publishers no longer including color-printed booklets for example?
By removing the charger, Nintendo deviated from the norm saying it's doing this to lower the cost of the box. Is this true? Does anyone here have access to Nintendo's financials? I imagine Nintendo keeps these numbers to themselves so I looked up the prices for lone chargers for various things on online retailers and they range from around $2 to up to $15. How did we get these varying prices? I found similar pricing for mere usb cables we've probably come to expect to be available right out of the box. Again, how often do we ask how these cables factored into the total cost of a retail unit it had come with?
And another post following the one above:
If you can't afford about $5-$10 for a charger, you probably shouldn't be buying a $200 handheld gaming device that plays $40 games. If you don't feel what Nintendo is asking for is reasonable, please do not purchase a new 3DS and contact Nintendo as to why you are not purchasing the new handheld. Purchase a Vita instead, it comes with a charger but just be wary of memory card prices.
