Board 8 > Well that 3DS price drop didn't take long...

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From: TRE Public Account | #150
There shouldn't be any risk involved in getting the price drop and the game. You should be able to call the store you are buying the 3DS from to confirm that they allow it so you'll know it works before committing any money. If they don't find a different store.

I do prefer not telling people I'm going to do something underhanded (especially to them) before I actually do it but...

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You don't even have to explicitly talk about the 3DS. Just ask what their policy is on immediate price drops after purchase and if you have bring in the old item to return and immediately repurchase it. Most stores should be happy to let you keep the one you already have as opposed to forcing you to take a new one. It's not like they want to bother with actually taking the item back just to give you the exact same item and a newer copy at that.

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I just bought my girlfriend a 3DS...

Um... she doesn't care about NES games >_<

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From: TRE Public Account | #152
You don't even have to explicitly talk about the 3DS. Just ask what their policy is on immediate price drops after purchase and if you have bring in the old item to return and immediately repurchase it. Most stores should be happy to let you keep the one you already have as opposed to forcing you to take a new one. It's not like they want to bother with actually taking the item back just to give you the exact same item and a newer copy at that.

why the hell didn't I think of this before?

thanks

I'll place a phone call, but I'm still not sure I'll go through with it

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Buying the system and going back the next day and asking for the difference back is your best bet. In contrast to what someone said earlier, stores do track serial numbers. I know at gamestops the serial number is on the receipt and they aren't to return a system unless it matches the serial number receipt.

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just overheard the local 5 o'clock news announce the price drop

NOW EVERYONE IN MICHIGAN KNOWS

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This news practically ensures I'll get a 3DS if I can get all the games to come with it. I've always wanted my own handheld-system (that wasn't a Game Boy long past its time), and I'm tired of gaming a generation behind the times aside from whatever Steam allows me on my aging computer.

I can get twenty respectable games I can take on the go, plus LoZ:OoT3D and either Super Street Fighter 4 or save $40 until more games hit soon enough? Between that and the promotion I just got's first paycheck coming around that same time-frame, that's gravy for me.

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I just bought my girlfriend a 3DS...

then she should be fine if you got it from a place that will price match a price within a month of the sale, e.g., wal-mart or best buy. happens plenty of times.

personally not sure i care for the NES games much, but the GBA ones interest me, so hey. works for me. it does kick off a fantastic sequence though - from Devil Survivor Overclocked, Cave Story 3D, Starfox 64, Kid Icarus, the three Mario games, etc all in there shortly after. late summer, all of fall, and winter is pretty much when the library goes from 3-4 good games to double digits.

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Buying the system and going back the next day to ask for the difference back sounds like a good idea, but would they suspend such a policy when the price drop is announced ahead of time?

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don't see why they would. i mean best buy shouldn't and wal-mart DEFINITELY won't. the typical policy's a month. so i wouldn't be surprised if sales started going UP in between the drop for people doing that.

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Nintendo stock is down some 12% today from disappointing 3DS sales.

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So the 3DS is only marginally better than DSi XL, right? This is ridiculous. Nintendo needs to get serious and stop with these gimmicks like 3D. What we need is a handheld console with 4 screens. They can charge however much they want for that and I'll pay it!

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The console itself isn't the problem. It's the godawful library for the thing that's the problem. At least Nintendo is well on the way to fixing this, what with the E3 lineup.

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The lineup isn't even really that bad. Ridge Racer, DoA, Monkey Ball, and Shadow Wars are all fun games, Pilotwings isn't terrible, and SSF4 is fun for the... 5 people that don't already have it.

It's that people see no huge first party games yet and just jump to conclusions.

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yeah, honestly in terms of lineups 4 months in, the system's probably in the better quarter of systems that've ever come out. nice that you omitted Zelda from that though as that tends to be the main one everyone runs to. and it's not like those games cost much on sale either - 3/4 of the ones you mentioned early on have been on sale for $15 to 17 before. the lineup could be considerably better though just based on the fact that Devil Survivor got pushed back, Cave Story 3D continues to get pushed back, and MML3 got canned. ...hell, the fact that Kid Icarus hasn't come out yet still confuses me as that was one of the FIRST games shown.

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Yeah, I didn't want to mention Zelda because that's the obvious one everybody clings to.

It could definitely be better, and games getting pushed back, or in MML's case, canned, didn't help... But the fact is that you can find good games if you just actually look. Sadly, most people don't want to do that.

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From: Wanglicious | #167
Cave Story 3D continues to get pushed back,

I would hardly call that a high-profile title that many people are looking forward to.

plus it looks like complete s***

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From: Wanglicious | #167
the fact that Kid Icarus hasn't come out yet still confuses me as that was one of the FIRST games shown.

Remember when Ninendo was touting it as their high-profile launch game?

WELP

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nonetheless, it still should be a good game and was originally slated for a month ago along with Devil Survivor Overclocked. the latter meanwhile is 2 weeks before Starfox now and the former's been shoved to November. doesn't have to be a high profile game, simply has to be a good game.

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What we need now is information on the 10 unrevealed free games.

The NES games revealed seem to mostly be older titles from the first couple years of the console's life. Metroid and Donkey Kong are good bets. I doubt we see any Zelda or Mario sequels. Punch-Out!! would be really nice but for some reason they seem to not give that one out as much (wasn't an NES Classic on GBA, wasn't an e-Reader game, was exceedingly rare in Animal Crossing GC), so I don't know. Dr. Mario seems like a strong possibility. Hopefully the 3D-ized versions mean we won't get Excitebike or Urban Champion (especially Excitebike because we already got the 3D version free) (and especially Urban Champion because Urban Champion ****ing sucks). Mario Bros. would also be pretty lame since a better version is included on the GBA Yoshi's Island that we're also getting free. Kid Icarus seems likely, to help promote Uprising. So I'm gonna go ahead and predict that the other 5 NES games are

Metroid
Donkey Kong
Kid Icarus
Dr. Mario
Golf (or some other boring early NES game that nobody really wants)

The GBA games seem harder to nail down, especially since they're supposedly exclusive to this offer. Metroid Fusion and Mario Kart Super Circuit suggest that less popular games are likely, and Yoshi's Island suggest that we may see several SNES ports, where Nintendo gets around the "exclusive to Ambassadors" thing by just releasing the SNES original to the general public instead of the GBA port. Wario Ware and Mario vs DK are a little odd though, as I had understood those to be relatively popular games, despite not being the biggest of names. I'm throwing out the following guesses but I don't expect to be right on any of them:

Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (less popular than Fire Emblem)
A Link to the Past + Four Swords (SNES port)
Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World (SNES port)
Mario Pinball Land (not very popular, but Mario's a big name)
I dunno... maybe Advance Wars?

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From: Dauntless Hunter | Posted: 7/28/2011 9:06:53 PM | #172
A Link to the Past + Four Swords (SNES port)

We're already getting Four Swords for free on DSiWare

and that's not just early adopters, that's everyone

aww yeah

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it's probably just temp exclusivity.
though if FE was one of them i'd assume they would've dropped the name there since that's a pretty big game for them. Advance Wars doesn't seem like a bad guess though, could totally see that happen.

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Is the free Four Swords the original GBA game? Or is it just some Four Swords game?

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it's the GBA game

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There's also the possibility that some of the remaining free games won't be first-party releases, and they're not announced because they haven't finalized the agreements with the third-party publishers.

It's pretty unlikely, but it could happen!

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I fully expect you guys to keep me updated on these free games.

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ZOE Fist of Mars and both Super Robot Taisen games are part of the 5.
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Just wanna confirm (with my nearest Walmart, anyway) that they have a fifteen-day policy regarding situations such as this; even if the electronic product's already opened, be sure you have the receipt and return within that time-frame. Life should be good after that.

Ballin'.

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just another nail..

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