Nah i didnt say anything about Sony products. Im only talking about the 3DS.

Stop extrapolating what i said to ridiculous situations in order to make what i said seem less logical.

Yeah, that intense anti-consumer practice of allowing the consumer to make the choice of whether they actually need another charger or not.

How dare they give people a choice!

No, but shouldn't be more threads about no new 3DS then? Because this is reducing option for potential buyers in reality. The AC-adapter is only a small annoyance. Still more people hyperventilate about the AC-adapters and I see not a single popular thread about this disaster with the omission of one model that sets itself apart from the others by customization. That seems wrong. As a consumer I would be much more upset about that. As a european I don't have that problem though.

How credulous can you be?

Read this post again. You really are missing a key element of the whole picture:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=7000232

Maybe it is due to the fact that most people in the US are much more interested in getting the XL version to begin with?

It's very annoying. Luckily I already had a 3DS when I got the XL so it wasn't a big deal for me but still.. if you get a new phone you always get a charger. SURELY that has to be a standard?

6foot 7inches 

So slighly taller than the greatest basketball player ever.

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.

What I don't get is, if Nintendo are selling them for 8 dollars why can't they just include it and eat the cost? Next thing you know, they'll be selling the rechargeable batteries separate in their next gen handheld...

Nobody has the interest in customization, as the faceplates offer? Not even as an option? Sounds unlikely.