Nintendo announced last week that they will be slashing the prices of their Nintendo 3DS units by almost a third of the launch price, and they are aware that not everybody is happy with the drop.
To prevent any further mistrust issues, the company announced that they will be making 20 games free for download.
“There have been times in the past when we, Nintendo, have marked down the trade prices for our video game machines a certain amount of time after launch to further accelerate adoption of the hardware, but never in Nintendo’s history have we dropped a system’s trade price so significantly less than 6 months after launch.”
“Although we may not be able to completely prevent you from regretting purchasing Nintendo 3DS early, we would like to express our gratitude to our special customers like you by offering 20 free downloadable games,” the company said in a statement.
The free games are available to anyone who owns a Nintendo 3DS system in South Africa. To qualify for these free games you need to perform two simple system updates. The first system update which must be performed before 23:59pm (Central European Time) on 11 August makes you eligible for the programme and the second system update, which you need to conduct later in the year, will enable you to download the 20 free titles.
Some of the games up for grabs include 10 NES Virtual Console games at no charge like Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong Jr., Balloon Fight, Ice Climber and The Legend of Zelda, as well free 10 Game Boy Advance Virtual Console games like Yoshi’s Island: Super Mario Advance 3, Mario Kart: Super Circuit, Metroid Fusion, WarioWare, Inc.: Minigame Mania and Mario vs. Donkey Kong.
Charlie Fripp – Consumer Tech editor
