Extemely sorry for the 2 week late response! I've been busy working my internship and haven't had much time here other than lurk. I meant to respond awhile back but apparently I never did.....
Anyways, I'm glad to hear about your shiny! I'm kind of jealous since you've gotten RE shinies faster than I have (which is why I resort to chaining/MM-ing). But that's awesome!
I actually haven't played pokemon for a bit now. Again, partly because I don't have time but mostly because I'm spending my free time on my 3DS. At the beginning of the summer I told myself that it would be the only epic thing I'd get with my internship money, but not until later in the year. But then Nintendo announced the price drop. Again, I knew I wasn't going to get it for awhile but was still grateful to save some money. Then I found out that Wal-Mart was dropping the price early. I wanted to take advantage of the low price and the ambassador program so I went out and got it. Technically ripping off nintendo is kinda dishonest, but the only conditions for the ambassador program was buying it before August 12th so....jejeje
So yeah. I'm happy as a clam atm. It's definitely worth getting if you have the funds. After actually using it, I agree that the original $250 USD price was fair price (although it seems outrageous). But as everyone has said, Nintendo released it WAY too early (before the good games) so that's why it didn't sell too well.
But that's enough of me bragging. I'm just kinda glad of how things unfolded. =P