Target To Offer 3DS XL Consoles For Only $149.99 On Black Friday

Probably be sold out early. I already have mine, so I'm good!

This reads like an advertisement, lol.

Yeah, I'm fairly sure that everyone that comes to this site has a 3DSXL by now... It's a shame that it doesn't have many games that I like because the thing just sits there while I use the awesome WiiU for everything

Wonder if the other models are gonna price drop too.

Should I cancel my 3ds xl alink between worlds and get this instead?
Also who knows where I can sell the code for a link between worlds?

They were doing a similar sale when the Pikachu 3DS XL got released so I was able to snag mine for 149.99 8D

@MadAussieBloke Exact opposte here. I play all 3 of my 3DS' daily and my WiiU only rarely. 28 retail boxed games, 4 retail DL games, and 50+ e-shop/VC games for my 3DS.Best current system I own.

That's not a bad deal at all, but my launch date Nintendo 3DS is still in good condition so I'll probably have to pass.

Yikes, that's cheap. I wonder what they'd sell the 2DS for, as this is a huge cut. Even so, I have no regrets about buying my Mario Kart 7 XL system for $220.

@Danniii

I would say no unless you are short on cash. I recently debated between getting a cheaper 2DS or upgrade to a Pokémon XL, and I chose the latter because it is a limited edition, which makes it rarer. And about a couple of days after I got it, Nintendo confirmed the Zelda XL for North America. Still very happy with my blue PokéXL

For something that is selling well it still has hardly any 3rd party support... Even the WiiU has more choice and bang for your buck

Meijers has them insale for 180..if you want to avoid the lines crowds and cold..I know I'll get one for Xmas..I'm tired of using my son's xl.and he is too !

@MadAussieBloke I haven't upgraded my 3DS yet because I've been spending my money on Wii U. And yeah, the 3DS do lack third party games, the last one I recall buying was Kingdom Hearts 3D. O.o

I also want to point out that Target has the best price matching policy ever. They will match any price (online or print ad) offered by Best Buy, Walmart, Amazon, Toys R Us, and Target.com while still honoring any coupon. For the next month and a half they will match any price until Dec. 21 even after your purchase I believe Black Friday is not included).

I raided their Wii U and 3DS games this past summer. Target kept printing us off Buy 1, get one %30 off and Buy 2, get one free coupons... So we price matched most of their games $10-30 on various deals offered by Amazon and Best Buy. All said, I did the math and we saved an average of %70 off per game. And all those games were priced $40-60. So we ended up paying anywhere from $5-25 per game, thanks to their lenient policies. It was near to outright robbery.

I don't have an XL, but, I'm happy with my aqua blue model. I really don't have any plans to get c XL, and I don't have enough money to get this.

@MadAussieBloke Wow, I never did realize how little 3rd party games I had. I only have Pinball Hall of Fame: the Williams Collection and Tetris Axis. All my other 3DS games are first party. (Not counting eShop games) That said, ever since Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon came out, I've been playing a lot of my 3DS. This has been a really good year for 3DS owners.

@Captain_Gonru This is correct, my wife works in the electronics section and she has been flabbergasted at the lack of Wii U support. Black Flag, Deus Ex, and Arkham Origins were all prime future price match candidates... Lo, they don't carry the Wii U versions, as you said.

Even worse, they received 3 Wii U copies of Ghosts, obviously compared to a full vault of copies for other platforms. Like you said, she scanned them the first day they came out to see if they may get more. Nope. Discontinued. Very peculiar and more than a little ominous.

Makes Activision's refusal to put their games on the shop quite frustrating. I know many who are still itching to track down a copy. With such little shipments in NA and Europe, I wonder if Ghosts was ported to Wii U primarily for Japan's sake. Not sure why, but Famitsu only reviewed the Wii U version for some reason. In that culture, the local co-op elements could have real appeal, I guess...

Target sux at videogames, I loled when read that paragraph

I really want an XL

@MadAussieBloke I don't have a 3ds XL

i am happy with my newly purchased 2ds

NNNNOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've been able to fight off my demons and resist the 3DS all this time, but at that price, I CANNOT HANDLE A DEAL OF THAT MAGNITUDE! Please, please be sold out early, lest I be sucked back into handheld gaming and another money sink! Owning a Wii U and taking advantage of all the deals I find for it is costly enough!

I hate this "holiday".
Enjoy your savings as you have an increased risk of getting punched in the store as shoppers become more violent each year.

spits out Dr. Pepper

HOLY CRAP!

If Target is a "premier destination for video games in the US", my nose is a trombone.

@Captain_Gonru - My target is the only store that has a well stocked Wii U section. It is a cornucopia of Wii U-ness compared to the other stores in the area....it's the only store that I've seen a majority of the Wii U titles in and stocked.....having said that, I haven't purchased anything from them cause Amazon and Newegg tend to get my business.

If its not gold with a triforce image on it AND includes a code for the new Zelda game then Im not interested. The price is great but I would regret canceling my preorder to save some money and not own that sexy, shiny thing.

I actually thought that's how much it was normally.

Target is great! It's my go-to place for retail games. They usually have some great deals every week. I heard that they maybe doing buy 2 get 1 free for Black Friday. If that's the case, I'll be there.

@Zodiak13 dude, sarcasm

I may get one, I've been wanting an xl for when smash bros comes out. I'm hoping they make a smash bros themed 3ds though, so maybe I'll wait. Great deal though.

@Captain_Gonru All great points, but I'm just as challenged walking into GameStop and trying to locate a 3DS title for under $30. In this economy, price matters huge, and Target continually runs promotions intended to get gamers in the door, often with prices that beat even Amazon and other big name online retailers.

@ACK I echo that Target has the best price matching policy in the business. I've gotten several 3DS games there this past summer/fall, price matched to Walmart.com (mostly), and I have saved an average of $5-$10 on new games. Their website ran some kind of special and I snagged Mario Kart 7 for $18.74 at Target via price match.

Target also ran a great deal when X/Y came out. i picked up both games, one for me and one for the hubby, and the lady at the register had some kind of coupon that she scanned for me — my total was just over $100-some (with a couple other items i picked up as well as the games) and it brought me down to around $70. I don't remember the specifics of the coupon but i do remember it had something to do with purchasing both games at once. i hadn't known that deal was available, there was no mention of it on their website or anything and i'd been prepared to pay full price, but i was thrilled to pieces when my cashier scanned it!

these deals aside, in no way would i consider Target a 'premier destination for video games in the US'. Video game deals, maybe (and that's if you're only counting brick-and-mortar stores), but just like Toys 'R' Us, a buy-two-get-one deal there only works if you're interested in multiple first-party titles or trying out the dregs of Metacritic. I will say my local Target has better customer service than Best Buy, GameStop, and Wal-Mart combined and i love shopping there when i need certain things they carry that other stores around here don't, but their 3DS section is usually half-empty and they don't seem to carry the niche titles that GameStop and Amazon always have on-hand. if I'm going there, it's usually not for video games (in fact, the reason i'd picked up X/Y from there was because I needed a special kind of soap and a size of plastic cup that only they sell here in this town!).

Just came back from Target and I'm happy to report the Wii U kiosks have gotten better - big yellow cat suit Mario across the top - AND they've updated the demos. A kid was playing WW HD when I got there, I played Sochi Olympics when he left. Still no SM3DW demo but I'm ok w/ that for now as the Olympic game comes out first and it needs the advertising more than Mario. Nice to see the thing get updated.

As for Target as a gamers destination - well yes and no. Still no fit Meter, and not always the best sales and game selection, but I've bought a bunch of clearance games there for next to nothing so I can't totally fault them. The clearance sections have gotten much smaller the last couple of years but I'm expecting things to get better when they clear out room for PS4 and X1. I did buy my Wi U there for the $50 GC. GC are good.

@MadAussieBloke
Wii U's catching up real fast- pretty soon that statement won't need sarcasm.

@rjejr

They had a playable Mario & Sonic Sochi 2014 demo?
Well, now I've gotta go to a Target.

Thank you for the heads up!

@ACK do you work there?

awesome deal for those looking to upgrade or do not have a 3DS

Hmm..this might be a good deal if i can snag one. Can anyone answer this question: How comfortable is the 3DS XL? I find with my release date black 3DS my hand tends to crap alot, the home/start/seletc button feel abit clunky, and the viewing for 3D is narrow. Does the 3DS XL suffer from any of these issues? If not, then I am defiantly getting this on black friday.

great deal for americans.

@LDXD I am finding it difficult to even play on one at the moment

@LDXD Can you play games that need the triggers and the dpad comfortably ? (I have been trying to play Megaman ZX recently and my hands hate me for it. With and without circle pad pro). With the circlepad pro I can play e.g NES VC Games just fine or circlepad using games.

Cannot do the stretch from dpad to L for longer than about half an hour. (My hands are big I think I can reach it fine it is just not a comfortable position to be in).

Black Friday isn't for me. My family(including myself, of course) used to look for a Christmas tree weeks before, & then on Black Friday, my family would get the (exact) tree (as we had tagged it), & we would put in up in my home, & decorate it, as well as my house that day, & over that weekend. In more recent years(3 years ago), my family now has a fake tree. Due to this, my family now has up the tree, generally a week, or two prior to Thanksgiving.

My extended family goes out for Black Friday shopping, but that has become their tradition in more recent years, as opposed to when they used to do the same as my family used to, concerning Christmas trees. Actually, a few members of my extended family still do that, just tree hunting much later in the day, or days later. Sometimes that weekend.

I would be down w/ Black Friday if it wasn't mostly about stores moving (all kinds of, but specifically generally old, or fewer bells, & whistles tech) merchandise, turning people rabid, & most importantly, no one ever cares about the people that get killed, or severely hurt, like that Wal-Mart guy that got trampled to death. I mean, wow, a, a.. product? That'll be out-dated in mere months, or already is, is worth a person's life?! Really?! In total, & obvious contrast to a day dedicated to the concept of being thankful celebrated mere hours before.

Then of course, here's something many people don't think about, that is important for gamers to think/contemplate on: the high chances that video game stock for Black Friday deals, has been recklessly hauled, tossed, & shoved into a store's back warehouse, er.. rather stock room/hall. Then, of course, the stock has a high chance of being faulty, from being thrown around. There goes your Black Friday deal, &/or purchase, up in smoke.

I own a launch Cosmo black 3DS. It has suffered many (accidental) drops, & to my knowledge, it still functions as it should. Oh, I have no doubt that I may have damaged some components slightly. Sometimes, I wonder if I've accidentally damaged the wi-fi antenna, as my signal isn't always so hot, but overall it still works for me.

To answer people's questions, I imagine, but do not know for certain, that the XL is more ergonomic to hands during prolonged use. I've played a demo in some stores, & to me, the Select/Start/Home buttons feel not only cheap, but also a bit uneasy to press in to activate, & slightly out-of-the-way to access on both models. Again, I don't own an XL, so I'm just guessing based on my limited time using the model.

Cool. That's all I have to add. ^.^

The US gets great deals! GRMBL.. I guess now is the time to tell your friend about it, cause you probably have one already by now, don´t ya?!

Hold the phone...you can buy a black 3DS XL in the US?!

get this instead of 2DS

@MadAussieBloke speak for yourself; I haven't upgraded to an XL yet and I can't be the only one here. I want to but my 3DS is working fine and I can't justify the price right now (money's tight). Maybe, just maybe, one of these Black Friday deals will catch my eye...

@MadAussieBloke I do not have one and this will be hard to resist. I usually do Target on Black Friday anyway. Nothing like grabbing the few items you want in a couple minutes (iTunes gift cards are always like free cash) and then standing in a line that winds in and out of the aisles on the entire side of the building for an hour.

Ya'll ain't missing much, unless Animal Crossing & Pokemon is your kind of thang... The hype really doesn't match up with the overall experience

@MadAussieBloke There are many games I'm interested in and Pokemon and Animal Crossing aren't in my personal list. Too bad nothing interests you though. I know I've never really taken to Nintendo handhelds. When you get your own home and couch and TV and you have control over when it is all used, handheld game systems lose a lot of utility and charm. Still, the games are calling.

$150 for a 3DS XL? Not worth fighting in line for, better to just get it on Amazon, a better safer alternative and better price too. Sorry Target, you try.

How much are they usually and when is black friday?
And do they have all the colors?

@Shade_Koopa I think the XL is very comfortable, overall. The original 3DS gets a lot of flak for being a little too hard-edged, and I can understand where people are coming from with that. My main issues with the standard system are the peculiar L and R buttons, and the smaller size is something of an awkward hold for my oversized hands. The XL solves all of those problems, with rounded out edges, full-feeling L and R buttons, and for us mutants with absurdly long fingers, large enough for a comfortable grip while still being able to properly accommodate normal and children's hands, as well.

The sweet spot for 3D viewing is still narrow, but that's the nature of parallax barrier autostereoscopy. There's not really a way around it, though I have been told that the XL's is better.

@Genesaur Thanks for this info. I am definintly going to snag me a black 3DS XL on friday, if I can.

@OdnetninAges - Yeah, 1 Target did, I was in another today but we were so exhausted after all our shopping - it was our 4th store - that I never even checked. Though usually all the Targets I've been to have the same set-up

hey! anyone know if Target Canada is planning to match this price?

@LDXD My home 3DS XL is for long stategy/RPG's, The on the go 3DS XL is for AC:NL and all my downloaded E-shop games. My regular 3DS is mainly for platformers, plus I like all the streetpasses I get so I can get far in the Mii Plaza games since no one seems to pass me much, and I don't live near a street pass hotzone or whatever it is called.