3DS could cost more than $250 - Analyst

Meh, only people with actual jobs and have real lives worry about the price, and that fits me to a tee. I don't have the money to say "I'll pay whatever they decide to charge". Quite simply, that sounds insane. I can wait for the price to drop a tad, if they decide to charge this much.

With my launch DS on it's last legs and me never upgrading to a Lite, DSi or DSi XL, I was willing to pay any price around $300 for the 3DS. But if it's $250, that's even better.

Not a good price point.. I really dont think any handheld is worth more than $100-150.

WTFOMG EGGPLANT!!!!!

Still beats the price of what PS3's were charged for upon release. Besides there are plenty of games on this system I am interested in, like the new Animal Crossing and Paper Mario games, and no doubt there will be a new Dragon Quest, and I'm always up for that. In other words. I'm buying this handheld device, no matter the price.

maybe it will come out on black friday, that would be devious. But it could be when thier launch titles are finished.

It's like getting a Nintendo Wii at that amount. I'm gonna wait till either the price decreases or if there is any game that interests me for the handheld of course.

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if they stick with around a 200$ pricing they will sell a LOT more than they would at 250$ thus on the long run it would be more profitable for nintendo+ currently the dsi xl costs 170-180$ at amazon.com but at amazon.co.uk its 160 pounds around 240$ and nintendo said its going to have a sub 200 pound pricing so i think it will be definitely less than 250$

Does Nintendo know that the United States and Japan's economy sucks right now!! 250$ I will wait for a price drop.....

@iilsSueZ You're right!! :-)

@Da_Bee Whether you like it or not, it will be a fake 3D effect, once again provided by another Nintendo gimmick. While I'm sure hordes of Nintendo sheeple and idiot casual gamers will buy this, just as they have all the other ridiculous DS consoles, that doesn't change the fact that this is just one more cheesy design by Nintendo, masters at pushing useless gimmicks on their willing victims. I can't wait until this company finally fails and folds, it won't be soon enough. RIP Nintendo, soon we hope!

@Adidam You're a prick

Only people who don't have a lot of money complain about the price!! :-)

Hokay, so adjust from Yank money to good ol' British pounds... add VAT... add the usual "It's Europe, lets double the price" mentality of US and Japanese firms, and... uh-oh. *gulp* Uh, are the banks lending money again? Because I think I'm gonna need to take out a loan... :(

Input/Output: A port that accepts both Nintendo 3DS game cards and game cards for the Nintendo DS? family of systems That tells alot (source: http://e3.nintendo.com/3ds/ )

@chimpmeister: Who the hell keeps calling this fake 3D?? Fake 3D is where you put on glasses and no matter how far you move your head you are still given the same perspective rendered by the camera control in the game. Real 3D is where no matter where you move your head, the perspective changes with your eyesight. As such the Nintendo 3DS offers infinitely more "real" 3D compared with your 3D tv.

Coolyfett really hopes that Sony does not play into the 3D gimic! The PSP 4G just needs great HD visuals and many great games like the current PSP has. The PSP is the most amazing handheld ever created. Being that Coolyfett is such an awesome and unstoppable gamer, thats most likely the reason he chooses the PSP over the rest.

3d is nice and all but certainly not $250 nice... You can buy 3d monitors for your freakin pc for only a bit more if you're into that. But mostly I'm not going to pay more for my handheld than I would pay for an entire console. Just doesn't seem right y'know...

time to have a good laugh at people with 3 d goggles when they are on the bus!

@chimpmeister dude a slight upgrade from ds, I just lol at you it should be as powerful or more than a psp, especially if it's going to release Super Street Figher IV on it. It has almost the same graphics and just has more aliasing and a small resolution. Nevermind about SSFIV, if it can handle this Icarus game that well, then how can think it's only little superior to DS. DS couldn't get anything close to this 3DS power.

All I have to add is that Michael Pachter is supposedly making these statements, which means one of two things: 1. He's completely, hopelessly wrong, and this article is full of non-information and fail. 2. There is a credible, obvious source of this information elsewhere. In the apparent absence of any contrary information, I'm going to go ahead and trust my gut and say that Pachter is once again completely full of failure. I don't see Nintendo releasing this for $250.

I dont think Nintendo would price it that high. Just look at the PSP Go, and it didnt sell much.. Its not even being released near christmas, so it would be hard to sell.

what are some of you people saying? that 3ds is just a upgrade of ds, well it's not! Sure the name sucks and it tricks everyone and fool them to think that it's just another version but the hardware is almost or better then the PSP. I gonna buy one sense I don't have a DS and I want my Kingdom Hearts + it will be fun to see how good the 3d is

@Gipshaw: No, I do understand . . . they may be trying to sell the 3DS as a "sequel" to the DS, but in reality it it nothing more than a slightly upgraded DS. It still plays DS games, still has the dual screens (a useless feature), still has almost an identical layout to the DS. There's nothing new or amazing here, just the added gimmick that it can play fake "3D" games (besides regular DS games). I don't buy this as a sequel at all, its nothing more than one more in an endless line of ripoff revisions to the original ripoff hardware (remember the original DS had a crappy dim screen too, until tey released the "DS Lite" with the brighter screen?), and I have no doubt the diehard Nintendo sheeple and casual gamers (their main market now) will buy it it.

You should all shut up

@chimpmeister You don't seem to understand. The 3DS is a SEQUEL to the DS, not a new revision.

*YAWN* Yet another version of the gimmicky Nintendo DS, which has had more revisions than any handheld ever. Another revision for sheeple and casual gamers to waste their money on. The design of the DS itself is ridiculous, with a 2nd useless screen, so I passed on all the versions (including the pixellated and ugly DSI XL) . . . and of course will pass on this new "3DS" gimmick as well. I can already foresee that this is going to be yet another waste of money, with few good "3D" games and nothing really exciting. Then there's the issue of, will this system cause headaches like the doomed Virtual Boy did. Amazing that Nintendo can revise systems year after year, rehash the same old junk, and still sell to its flock of lemmings. At least it looks like the gravy train may be ending for them, since their last financial results were pretty bad. What a shame . . . NOT!

i really hope it's not $250. And remember what the first ds looked like? I think I'll wait till the 3dsi XL comes out for atleast 80 bucks cheaper 3 years from now.

I wont bother with it , not for a few months after release and a few price drops... hell most likely pick up a 2nd hand one from those who rush to grab it. Why ? Simple, first it will not have much of a library of titles to play then theres the issue of the programmers learning the ropes on the hardware and finally the inevitable 'slim' or 'lite' version of the unit. Wait a bit, price drops and theres more titles to choose from and probably more worthwhile bundles to choose from, plus the likelyhood of some tech geek getting bored of the handheld and sellingit cheap. (I learnt my lesson from buying the DS at launch, only had Ridge Racer and the Metroid hunters demo...rest of the time it played only GBA titles, I flogged it and picked up a PS 2 instead... and bought the DS Lite later)

Never listen to Pachter. No one can stand this guy, not even the users on Gametrailers.com. He's the other side of the industry you don't want.

(3DS) three dee es, will be a success, could we ask for anything less? I won't second guess, the loneliness of success, being on top, staying on top, three dee es (3DS) will never be second best!!!!! peace................

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When was the last time this guy was right on the money? Anyone? Yeah. Thought so.

I hope the price is not that high.. but will buy it anyways.. hope it launches soon (will be my first DS)

I love my DS and I'd love to have the 3DS but for that price I think I would do without it. Rather have a few more games.

Buying it period. Don't care what the cost is.

I really don't care what the price will be, I will pay it. Plain and simple, this system will be epic and set major landmarks for the industry. Really IMO the handheld market needed a new push to move things along to the "next-gen" level. :)

"sell millions of units even at a price of upwards of $250." LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL Stupid analyst is stupid. If there's one thing that Nintendo has always had over Sony and Microsoft, it's their lower system pricetags. Like AnelZukic said, Nintendo won't sell the system for a price that is lower then the production cost of a unit, and I highly, HIGHLY doubt it costs over $175 to make a 3DS system. Even though he makes a good point that with this new technology being pioneered, it can still sell a lot, but let's not forget why the PS3/PSX failed financially. The analyst can go die, I'd sooner wait for this year's TGS to get a good fix on the price.

i can get the best h**kr with that much...which is more satisfying

Analysts say analysts could be wrong.

gonna have to save more money to this one 3d is cool to play on a handled

I think where Nintendo falls down is their marketing for this product. The only announcements I've heard are on places like this and the layman would not have any reason to buy this product over the DSi.

When I saw the price I LOLED. I wouldn't pay more than 200(tax included) for a hand-held.

250$ is the analyst's estimate. i dont think nintendo has released a price for this yet, but i hope it is decent because ive been looking to get a DS.

I'm buying it. High price could hurt sales though.

DS Phat- 2004 DS Lite- 2006 DSi- 2009 DSiXL- 2010 New DS systems don't come out every year. Sony has actually released new PSP revisions quicker than Nintendo's DS.

*i do not think it will be movie quality

ppl do we even know how good the 3d is wat if its chessey or if it sux or the grafix are so bad that even good 3d looks bad i mean the 3ds is cool but its not magic i do think the 3d will be movie quality

I doubt I'll buy this the day its released. Knowing Nintendo and how they release mulitiple versions of the same thing, I'll just wait till they come out with a 3DSi.