Global Hardware 14 December 2019

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curl-6 said:

Slownenberg said:

What does 3DS cost these days? Is it still like $170 or whatever? The thing is dead. They should drop the 2ds, move the New 2ds down to like $90, and the 3ds down to $120. Crazy that the 3DS is barely cheaper than the Switch Lite. Nintendo just really hates cuting prices these days.

They should drop the whole thing, not just the 2DS tbh. Move players on to the far more lucrative Switch ecosystem.

You both make a good point.  Nintendo does seem to really hate cutting the price (so does Sony for that matter), but Switch really is a much more lucrative ecosystem.  You are right they should just drop the 3DS line altogether, but they also need to have a plan to get the Lite model down to $99 at some point, like around the 6-7 year mark. 

All of those people who paid $80-$100 for the 2DS slate are never going to buy a Switch for $200 with $60 games.  And yet Switch is going to be the cheapest game system once 3DS is discontinued.  Nintendo is going to drive the low end customers out of the market unless they eventually get the Lite model down to around $99 with some "Selects" titles around $20-$30.  And Switch is a much better system to keep supporting for a long time than the 3DS is.