Topic: Australian Supremacy! New 3DS November 21st.

Eat your heart out America and Europe.

In the first ever Nintendo Direct for Australia, it was announced Australia is getting the New 3DS November 21st. Australia will be the only region in the western world that will receive the New 3DS in 2014.

That was some exciting and unexpected news, now to start saving money.

That's great! I hope the release dates for the other regions get announced soon too.

_{Australia is west from Japan?}

Prices are below.

New Nintendo 3DS: $219.95
New Nintendo 3DS XL: $249.95

well they gotta work the bugs out somewhere.

So France is Eastern?

It's about time that Nintendo remembered that we exist.

Haha how to detect as many pedants as possible: call Australia "western"

(Just to be a hypocrite: Yes I agree australia is western. It's closest cultural relative is Britain. The fact that "western" doesn't actually mean west geographically is just because language never follows logic. France is generally considered more a part of "the western world" than Brazil is.)

Yeah definite import options for euro and us english speakers. It will probably run any euro pal games - i know here in NZ its quite cheap to import and play uk pal games on my NZ Wii U

Anything is cheaper compared to buying locally in New Zealand.

You can't just make up your own definition for words.

Well you can, but you'd be wrong. The 'west' is a term that predates the Americas entirely. Europe is the west. It's a cultural thing, not a language thing.

you guys will be a fantastic test market

Hahahahahahaha. Thank you oh mighty guru. And for the next lesson: basic multiplication.

Well I'll be damned, you're right!!!

Australia you say?
IMPORT IMPORT IMPORT!!!!
Edit: Just found out that AUS$220 is only £120. Delivery from Australia will cost a bomb but the ultimate price can't be much more than a regular 3DS from home.
Australia uses the same eShop (which I can set to UK, I think. I set my store to Australia once for the lolz) and the same games. Does anyone know of any repercussions of importing?

Nice to see some love for Autralia anyway

/tableflip time to go find a job again... To be fair though I wouldn't mind Australia being the test market _{better than being the lag market or the skip market at least}

Also honestly how did this turn into a discussion on Eastern/Western culture?

Ok, this is getting waaaay off topic, but...

By Columbus's time, everyone already knew the world was round. They had for thousands of years. The Ancient Greek mathematicians like Pythagoras were doing calculations on the circumference of the Earth in the 6th Century BC. If you were in Europe in 1492 and thought the world was flat, you were either really, really dumb or the medieval equivalent of a moon landing denier (ok, so really, really dumb).

Columbus wasn't some nutjob who wanted to prove to everyone that the world was round. The Spanish government would never have given him funding if they didn't believe the world was round. Columbus was searching for alternative trade routes. Portugal had dominance along the African coast and in the Indian Ocean, so Spain was looking to establish a trade route with Asia by traveling west.

Converted to €:

• New 3DS: exactly €151.82
• New 3DS XL: exactly €172.53

Converted to £:

• New 3DS: exactly £119.24
• New 3DS XL: exactly £135.50

Converted to US $:

• New 3DS: exactly $195.27
• New 3DS XL: exactly $221.90

Honestly, this is WAY cheaper than I expected, so I'm definitely gonna import!

EDIT: added GB £ to the conversion.

I would have maybe imported if I didn't need to have it fixed by Nintendo last time in the first three months.

I wonder how much it would cost to have delivered to the UK seeing as the New XL works out to £135 which is cheaper than they are priced now for the old ones.