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I find it very funny, that all forum go'ers think it could be $250 to $300, despite everyone knowing the 3DS is built from cheap tech that is rather old, and that it only has one 3D screen, and Nintendo's usually cost cutting tendenacies apparently don't exist anymore even though they find a way to make every console affordable, and even though most of the gaming press think it will be $200, people just think it will be expensive. But it won't be more than $199 IMO.
At $199 it will definetly be sold at a healthy profit for Nintendo. I'd plan on saving $199
darth-pyschosis
It easily can end costing like $229.99. In reality what people like you call new tech is not new tech and it doesn't matter is it is the newest thing a company can produce it still cost a lot of money to design and produce. They need to pay people to assemble then, they need equipments that ordinary people like you and me can't get and so on. People sometimes think that they are price gurus but they forget about the quality of the materials. Consoles drop in price and the quality of the materials too. I remember friends telling how less unreliable most PS2 Slims were compare to older models. At that time Sony changed the casing with a less quality one (cheaper plastic), the DVD drive with an old fashioned style CD player one and so on.1. Why would Nintendo give it an Odd price like $229?
2. I'm saying its cheap to make, its looking cheap to make, i'm guessing it will be sold at a 20% profit since most Nintendo consoles the last few years have been sold at that for profit at launch
3. The Wii cost $210 after manufacturing, licensing issues, and what not from what i understand, so they sold it for only $40 more, roughly 20-25% profit on each unit. Everything in the 3DS that we know of is looking towards around $130-$160 to manufacture, depending on varying costs like licensing fees, but $199 is very likely as it gives them potentially $60 or $40 of profit per unit
I don't think I ever called it "new tech". The fact that the tech is so old and cheap will only help the price be lower. Heck this is based off old GameCube tech then its 10 year old tech, It wouldn't surprise me if it barely cost Nintendo $100 to make a 3DS they know how to make an affordable console.
I've never really thought the consoles I've bought were overpriced. Companies sell stuff at a product, so long as it isn't grossly sold at a huge profit like 500% than i'm happy
Dude why don't you go to the system wars tread? Do you work at Nintendo? Do you Assemble the thing? Just because it was invented or the tech was available years ago doesn't means it cost $100 dollars or less to produce. Everything available is made using tech invented years before becoming available, even PC GPU's. The Gameboy Color was priced at $79.99 until the Gameboy Advance was launched for $99.99. The DS Lite was launched $30 dollars higher selling at $129.99. Since then it has only increased in price to $169.99 for the DSi and $189.99 for the XL. If you don't want then don't get it. Maybe you can call some sort of company to see if you can get the tech you want and create your own portable. NINTENDO IS NOT OBLIGATING ANYONE TO BUY THE 3DS. 
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