I decided to make an interesting research about 3DS stock and this is easy with Japan,because of the media create,generally the Japanese trackers of which their data are very easily accessible unlike europeans/americans and nintendo's data that are also easily accessible!I saw that the old models in Japan has more stock than the new models even after six months of the release of the popular new ones,which makes me think that this causes New 3ds/xl undershipping and cuts the pontential of New3ds/xl...Something similar must be valid for the west!
I recently read a interview of Iwata claiming that New 3ds/xl stock is low in the west,which in my opinion must be a result of its undershipping and it's popularity and Japan situation confirms that! Prices difference among the old models and the new ones isn't very big,so the old models have gotten into oblivion,and end up with a huge dead stock and consequently need a brave price drop in order that stock to be cleared out and expanding the instalbase!Nintendo then might be afraid that wannabe 3DS owners people won't buy the new ones,but the new ones are far better and have/will have some exclusive so and can also have a lower price after,so no significant change. Plus that the people who would buy the price-slashed old ones could buy the new ones later especially when these will get a price drop too and that the new ones are mainly made for the existing 3DS owners.not just the late/new adopters...
3DS manufacturing cost is 90$ for the original and 100$ for the xl version!So the original 3DS must fall from 169$(New 3ds cost 179$) to 119$ and that would affect the price of 2DS,you can't have 2ds at a higher price,so 99$ for 2DS,and 3DS xl should go from 189$(199$ New 3ds xl cost)to 139$,I don't know how this could imply money bleeding,because I don't think that it implies that!I consider greedy selling them at a price fairly near to the new models....
Here's the data as of March 31th!
3DS stock in Japan 500.039
Of which original 3DS-193.244
Of which 3DS XL-117.960
OLD 3DS FAMILY-311.204(Old 3ds/xl currently sells combined,2k-3k in Japan,so it would take a lot till this stock depletes!
Of which New 3ds-77.133
Of which New 3ds xl -111.702
NEW 3DS FAMILY -188.835
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1021522
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/historical_data/index.html I educed the numbers by comparison of the data that these two links include!
