Nintendo 3DS XL Currently Cheapest at £170

Prices for the upcoming Nintendo 3DS XL have started appearing on retailers across the web, sparking yet another race between competitors to sell the device the cheapest. Play initially listed a price tag of £179.99, but rivals Gamestop seems to have undercut it by offering the system for £167.97.

ShopTo and HMV will be selling the 3DS XL for £179.84 and £179.99 respectively. Whichever way you look at it, Nintendo's larger-screened update will launch at a cheaper price point than the original did back in February 2011 - specialists were asking for around £200 initially, until a slump in sales gave supermarkets the opportunity to slash prices dramatically.

MCV is reporting that the trade price for the 3DS XL is around £146 which, when you add VAT, totals at about £167.50. So it's likely that we won't see many launch prices go lower than Gamestop's offer. Unless retailers don't like money.

Via MCV