Nintendo will lower the prices of its DSi line of portable game hardware next month, it said Monday.
The company's Nintendo DSi will be lowered from $170 to $150 and the DSi XL will go from $190 to $170 starting on September 12, the launch day of Professor Layton and the Unwound Future.
The low-end DS Lite hardware will remain at $130, the price point at which it was launched in June 2006.
In July, Nintendo said it lost $289 million in its first fiscal quarter, blaming a strong yen and a decline in demand for Nintendo DS software.
It also said that it would announce the price and launch date of its next-generation handheld, the Nintendo 3DS, on September 29. Today's announcement would seem to be in anticipation of this next move.
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