Welp, it's November, and you can tell.
Amazon and Best Buy are both selling the 3DS XL for $170 and the regular-size for $140. Amazon's got the Vita for $180 but the memory card prices are still murder. I think my local Target's had the 3G version (with a memory card -- not sure if it's 4GB or 8GB but I'm pretty sure it's not any bigger than that) for $200 for like a month.
I'm keeping an eye out for deals. As I've mentioned elsewhere, I've got some insurance money coming to cover the stuff that was stolen from me back in August, with the catch that I have to buy stuff before I actually get fully reimbursed. Thinking maybe replace my old iPod with a new Nexus 5, and I was hoping we'd see the new Nexus 10 by now but no such luck.
(I got a cheap refurbed Samsung Chromebook, which is a pretty neat device for the price but which has vexed me with my inability to configure graphical hardware acceleration. All I ever really used my old laptop for was browsing the web anyway, and this one does that just fine, but I'd sure like to have the OPTION of SNES emulation. ...runs Genesis games just fine, though.)