DS Lite drops to $99 June 5th

Nintendo certainly isn’t going to help those 3DS sales with a price drop the company just announced that will happen the day before E3 starts. The DS Lite is going to have $30 knocked off its price meaning that $129.99 price point is going to drop to an enticing $99.99 on June 5.
That’s going to be impulse purchase territory for a lot of gamers. Got an old DS showing it’s age? $99 gets you a new one. That’s not even the price of two Xbox or PS3 games.
Nintendo is also going to entice you to buy some of the most popular Mario games ever released for the system(s) by changing their box color to red. The titles getting this repackaging include:
New Super Mario Bros.
Mario Kart DS
Super Mario 64 DS
Mario Party DS
Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story
Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem!
The price cut comes just 3 weeks after Nintendo dropped the Wii to $149.99 and bundled it with Mario Kart DS. It also arrives just before the official unveiling of the Wii 2 which is scheduled for release late in 2012.
With nearly 49 million DS units sold across the U.S. alone, you have to wonder whether Nintendo truly still thinks there are gamers ready to pick up its last generation handheld for the first time, or if this is a move to clear mounting stocks of the device.

Source: Geek 

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