3DS Price Drop [Free Games!]

[Inferno.]

An exciting message for people who own a Nintendo 3DS and those who want to:

Nintendo of America today announced plans to drop the suggested retail price of its portable Nintendo 3DS™ system to $169.99 in the United States. The new price takes effect Aug. 12 and makes an outstanding value even better.

Building on the popularity of The Legend of Zelda™: Ocarina of Time™ 3D, which launched June 19, the upcoming game calendar for Nintendo 3DS is a Who's Who of iconic video game franchises. Star Fox 64™ 3D arrives on Sept. 9, followed by Super Mario™ 3D Land in November, Mario Kart™ 7 in December and Kid Icarus™: Uprising during the holiday season.

And don't forget that Nintendo 3DS has a bunch of fun features, including Nintendo Video™, the Nintendo eShop and access to Netflix, that make it a must-have video game system.

But what about the 830,000 of you who already own a Nintendo 3DS? You're some of Nintendo's most loyal customers, and we're rewarding you for getting in on the action early with not one, not 10, but 20 free downloadable games from the Nintendo eShop! Here's how it works:

The 20 free games are available to anyone who owns a Nintendo 3DS system and uses a wireless broadband Internet signal to connect to the Nintendo eShop at least once before 11:59 p.m. Eastern time on Aug. 11. These users will automatically be registered in the Nintendo 3DS Ambassador program. The program contains two elements:

1. Starting Sept. 1, Nintendo 3DS Ambassadors will be able to download 10 NES™ Virtual Console™ games at no charge and before they are available in the Nintendo eShop to the general public. These games, including Super Mario Bros.™, Donkey Kong Jr.™, Balloon Fight™, Ice Climber™ and The Legend of Zelda™, are slated to become paid downloadable games, but Ambassadors get them early for free. Once the paid versions of the games are posted to the Nintendo eShop later in the year, the updated versions will be available to Ambassadors for download at no cost.

2. By the end of 2011, Nintendo will provide Ambassadors with 10 Game Boy Advance Virtual Console games. These include games like Yoshi's Island™: Super Mario™ Advance 3, Mario Kart™: Super Circuit, Metroid™ Fusion, WarioWare™, Inc.: Mega Microgame$ and Mario vs. Donkey Kong™. These games will be available exclusively to Ambassadors, and Nintendo currently has no plans to make these 10 games available to the general public on the Nintendo 3DS in the future.

More details about this program will be announced in the future.

It's a great time to own a Nintendo 3DS!

--Your Friends at Nintendo of America

source: http://www.nintendo.com/corp/nintendo3ds/news/

[Slacker Magician]

Nintendo, making things affordable .

[Kouen Hasuki]

Nintendo, making things affordable .

also sounding a lil desperate this short after release

[Panda Man]

Wow, I may actually pick one up. Never owned a DS before, my last handheld from Nintendo was a GBA.

also sounding a lil desperate this short after release

Haha, I was thinking the same thing. Less than 1million sales worldwide does seem below Nintendo's standards.

[Jackhammer]

I remember the UK release of the N64. It came out at £250, it was knocked down to £150 after only six weeks.

[Aeolus Aeneas]

And yet I still don't want one, because there is not a single game for the thing that I want.

[Supreme Warrior]

Damn, thats great news, too bad developers are dropping it like yesterdays trash

[Kouen Hasuki]

It just makes my eyes go funny with 3D Mode enabled so id have to have it off all the time, and at that point I may as well have a DSi well the primary reason anyone would want one is for the 3D

I Can see the 3DS is going downhill fast with a game lineup that is less than stellar one of the best titles is a Re Released slightly tweaked Master Quest version of OOT which in itself was a tweaked / Variant of the original game so does it makes it a Re-Re-Re release? or a Retweak of a Re Release?

Then they announce there going to Re Release more old titles made me lol, Im all for older games n all that good stuff but ya this seems a lil desperate from Nintendo... Wonder if this "3D" console will suffer the same fate as the Virtual Boy did it seems to give similar effects to players

[Supreme Warrior]

Ya Kouen, seems like they are just trying to save money by re releasing old games at the price of...$40 a pop

[Aeolus Aeneas]

The only 3DS title I want is Kid Icarus, and I alreadfy know that it'll suck. Nintendo has next to nothing to repackage when it comes to that IP, so they'll have to... GASP... come up with ORIGINAL MATERIAL. And originality isn't Nintendo's strong suit these days.

[Ace Ventura]

Wait wait wait. Wtf does it mean by "Ambassadors?" So the public doesn't get the GOOD GBA games? That pisses me off.

[Blue_Legion]

will the ambassador program be avail. in europe too?

[TheRealSpiders]

Wait wait wait. Wtf does it mean by "Ambassadors?" So the public doesn't get the GOOD GBA games? That pisses me off.

It would seems so, at least their will be access to the NES games.

[Kouen Hasuki]

Wait wait wait. Wtf does it mean by "Ambassadors?" So the public doesn't get the GOOD GBA games? That pisses me off.

Now thats what you call butt fucking from nintendo... I think this be the 2nd worst after the whole "your analog stick will wear out in under 6 months of regular use" n64 controllers

[Slacker Magician]

Now thats what you call butt fucking from nintendo... I think this be the 2nd worst after the whole "your analog stick will wear out in under 6 months of regular use" n64 controllers

I had controllers last for years before I sold my first N64, and the analog worked fine on all my controllers.