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Analyst Says 3DS Games Need to Drop to $25 or Less

Posted on Monday, August 8 @ 15:02:12 Eastern by Josh_Laddin
Everyone's aware by now of the huge, unprecedented 3DS price drop. But one industry analyst believes that's only half the battle for Nintendo, that getting back in the driver's seat for the new handheld is going to be a two-front war won with both hardware and software price cuts.

Which reminds me, why for fuck's sake have they not announced this game outside of Japan yet?


In an interview with Industry Gamers, M2 Research analyst Billy Pidgeon made a big deal about the low attach rate that buyers have with recent Nintendo systems, and believes that slashing software prices is the way to address that. To give us an idea of the numbers he has in mind:


"Lower 3DS hardware prices only address part of the problem. It's more important to sell more software as packaged goods and paid digital downloads to each customer who buys a hardware unit," he said. "I would like to see Nintendo cut the retail price of packaged software to a range of $20 to $25 for the 3DS. DS software should be $20 or less."

I would be shocked if first-party games dropped to $25 or below, although the article does make a point that Nintendo is prodding third-parties to cut prices. If a general price cut on new 3DS games does actually happen, I wouldn't expect it to go below $30, which seems fair to me for a high-profile 3DS title. What do you all think?

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  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Aug 8th, 2011 at 3:18 pm
    Also the 3DS is the new no gaems machine.
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  • tinymhg
    tinymhg
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Aug 8th, 2011 at 3:21 pm
    If what I heard was right, the 3DS at $170 is a money loser. If they drop the price of the games so they also lose money that’s the recipe for bankruptcy. $30 seems more than fair to me for a good 3DS game.
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  • Imnickson
    Imnickson
    Joined: Jul 2006
    Posted: Aug 8th, 2011 at 3:59 pm
    Sounds like Nintendo is asking third parties to drop prices. Maybe they are not on there own software. Plus I don't believe selling 3DS software between $20-$30 is going to put them in the red on each item sold the way the 3DS is now.
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  • tinymhg
    tinymhg
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Aug 8th, 2011 at 4:47 pm
    Maybe, I don’t know enough to draw any conclusions. Different games have different development costs, and the 3DS uses a cartage based system, which I’ve heard is more expensive than disks. And they also need to cover the loses from the 3DS with profits from game sales. So they may just have their hands full trying to price their games low enough to sale, and yet price them high enough to make the needed profit point.
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  • Eyebrowsbv31
    Eyebrowsbv31
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Aug 8th, 2011 at 3:21 pm
    Methinks there will be a cracked article adding this to the list of really bad gaming ideas.
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  • wildmario
    wildmario
    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Aug 8th, 2011 at 4:40 pm
    $25 or less is too much of a pipe dream, If Nintendo sold 3DS games at the same price range as regular DS games, they may get some more sales, but 25 bucks is really pushing it unless they started to sell GBA games again.
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  • Diabolus
    Diabolus
    Joined: Nov 2008
    Posted: Aug 8th, 2011 at 6:39 pm
    I can't believe that a Nintendo handheld is bombing. WTF is going on? Have I entered some strange alternate dimension where Sony can dominate the handheld market?
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  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Aug 8th, 2011 at 7:38 pm
    I'm not sure Sony will dominate either. We'll see. As optimistic as I am about both handhelds, I think they'll end up splitting the market in the end... at least at this point.
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  • wildmario
    wildmario
    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Aug 9th, 2011 at 9:14 am
    It's kind of way too soon to be saying the 3DS is bombing hard. Give it another year or two then we can see if the 3DS is a failure or not.
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