out of the loop!

[A Black Falcon]

And inflation's probably why they're trying again to raise game prices, Game Boy games were $30 back in the early '90s and DS games are $30-40 now. In Japan they cost more, as much as console games, but not here, and they're trying again to raise prices, like how the PS360 raised console game prices to $60... though of course many SNES, Genesis, and N64 games cost way over $50, it was the Playstation that set that standard. PC games had always been more affordable though anyway, and still are -- still $50 in general. Anyway, it is interesting how game prices in general have not gone up with inflation. I'm not enough of an economist to be able to figure out why, or how that affects things, but I have to think that it can't be helping the industry... but on the other hand many people aren't making that much more than they were either, really, so it makes some sense. Not everything keeps going up in price -- computers for instance, those have on average gone down in price each decade versus the last one.

That is sure to improve with remodels that reduce the energy requirements of the hardware (as well as possibly improving the screen so that it can be viewed from a wider angle and still see the 3D image).

They've said that they don't have a "lite" model planned, though, the system fills the case competely full and they could not easily make it any smaller. Maybe there'll be a 3DS XL? But yeah, they need something with better battery life, I agree.