Nintendo 3DS Release Dates in 2011, Around $300

~$300 LOL no thanks.

Personally for a pmp or handheld gaming device Id rather go with my android smart phone due to its versatility.

For my kids there is no way Im spending over $150 on a handheld gaming device.

Am I the only one who finds the 300$ price tag a bit high? Even more so if you are (like me) completely indifferent to the 3D part of it. Couldn't they make a 200$ 2DS

Just another company trying to capitalize on the 3D fad.

$300 is too expensive. Nintendo should try working with a phone manufacturer like HTC and make a Nintendo DS or 3DS phone and portable console all-in-one. Then it would definitely be worth ~$300 with a 2 year contract.

I'll pass

Lol for the same price as a console? I don't think so. I'm not buying 300 devices for my kids to walk around with and drop and break. As it is I only buy used ds's now or rather I should say once they've saved up enough allowance for me to get them a replacement when they break.

personally, I think the handheld market is dying with all the things the phones can do nowadays. I know alot of people who just buy an Ipod touch, just so they can play games. For me, I have a Nintendo DS but ever since I got my HTC evo (android), I haven't touched my NDS.

FYI, when I refered to the handheld market, I was talking about PSP, and NDS. I think Ipods/Iphones/Ipads/Androids/WEB OS?? are the way of the future.

Yeah the DS cost more than a Gamecube when it came out, and the PSP more than a PS2.

Not that I'm disagreeing in general that this is frikkin expensive, mind you.

I don't think the price is that bad, it IS a brand new product, not smaller DS or a DS with a Camera or a pink DS, but an actual new platform for games. With all the devs and publishers that put out quality stuff on DS, this thing is tempting. Have you guys even seen SFIV 3D? Looks brilliant.

$300 is expensive, but I'm still gonna pay it for some portable Ocarina of time.

$300 is more than the intro price for the first DS. I much rather invest in some other toy that can achieve more for the same price.

How about some effing buttons, I can't pull off a dragon punch on a cussing touch screen. Convergence just dumbs down the functionality of a product, and it takes time before iterations of that new product will actually put out something that will please the majority of portable gamers. When the ipad gets something a little deeper than Angry Birds, then I'll be inclined to agree with you.

Uh, that's what those things at the right are!?!

for $300 I can buy a playstation 3 or an xbox 360.... seriously nintendo?! get a clue!

Wow I thought I was high when I read that; nope, it's Nintendo's prices.

Why does it seem like in this crumbling economy, everything is getting more expensive? As if rich companies like Nintendo need more money? They have billions. How about doing something more useful with money than stuffing benjamins into Japan's pockets?

LAWLz

Original gameboy: $90
seems the price for the "cheap gaming handheld" just keeps going up.

Didn't the original gameboy come out in like 86? That's well over twenty years ago.

Price is high but this machine has impressed many that have tried it. Nintendo has shown they know how to build consoles and games that sell and satisfy. Also the Japan price doesn't necessarily translate to the U.S. price.

They do, it's called the DS. There's also the DS lite and DSXL. You'll be surprised to learn that they cost under 200 dollars.
If 200 dollars still seems a bit steep a toy for your clumsy children, then you'll be pleased to learn that most of them are under 150 and will likely be further cut once the 3DS actually comes out.

If what they're promising holds true, the 3DS will blow minds. 3D without some stupid glasses that cost 200 themselves? Sounds like reasonable pricing to me. Add in the 3d camera and the ability to watch 3d movies and this is much cheaper than several thousand for a 3d theater setup. This one's for real gamers, not for your toddler's Pokemon collecting. Good luck finding something like 3d Ocarina of Time of Kid Icarus on your phones.

$300? Can not afford in this economy. Sorry Nintendo. I was interested in it, but that's just too much coin for me. I will stick with my DS for the time being. It's still working great.

$300 are they on crack? That's about 125 too much. Cmon nintendo the gameboy is supposed to be A. Durable B. Inexpensive.

The origional gameboy was under $100 when it debuted if I remember correctly. And I went through 3 of them when I was a kid. First fell off the top of a tv. Second the buttons wore out. Third I still have.

Hey, I agree with most of this, but some real gamers play Pokemon. And most real gamers have played one, even if they didn't like it and didn't continue to play every iteration in the series.

Japan's pricing has always been much higher, you can't put a lot of faith in a direct yen>dollar conversion:
DS at launch in Japan was $179.218 USD, US price $150
DSL at launch in Japan was $200.722 US price $129.99
DSi at launch in Japan was ~$230 US price was $170
DSiXL at Launch in Japan was ~$250 US price was $189.99

Nintendo = Not inteNd_to buy

Choke! so expensive!

It'll probably be like 229-249 when it comes out here in the US. And it better come out before March 18 when I fly to Georgia. But I wonder if that 3DS is safe on planes. With all that wireless searching it's doing. I don't want to be on the news saying, flight crashed due to some guy playing his Nintendo 3DS.

$300 seems too high but I'd wait to be so obnoxiously out-spoken about it until more is known than this speculation. Also, you don't need to comment every article about a product just to say, "I'm not buyin it!" Who cares?

$300, obviously this is thanks to the millions for Pirates and freeloathing microSD packed with free games in every chinese corner in every part of this Nation.

and inflation.