From a Nikkei (Japan's equivalent of the Wall Street Journal) interview with Iwata:
http://asia.nikkei.com/Japan-Update/Nintendo-to-offer-more-low-cost-software
- Nintendo to make more cheap software for 3DS, remakes of past games for 3DS and ports of smartphone titles (I guess Mario: Puzzles & Dragons fits in this category); could be sold for as low as a few hundred yen. Low development costs for these games. Maybe we'll see a Mario 64 3DS?
- Christmas/holiday sales were sluggish/poor. No New 3DS for the Western markets in time for the holidays was one reason says Iwata.
- Despite that, Iwata stresses no price cut coming for hardware any time soon.
- Sees a return to "Nintendo like" profits ($800 million+) in fiscal year ending March 2017. To me this is pretty much yet another confirmation that the 3DS successor will launch in 2016 as there's no chance Nintendo can hit fiscal profit of $800+ million without a new product to drive sales for most of 2016.
- More free trials of games that let you play the first few levels for free, then charge you for the rest of the game.
