Clearly, they know the R1 will be a fail so they're going to call it the R3N instead. They dropped the R3 price so they could price the R3N $500 more than the new R3 price and $500 less than the original R3 price.
Clearly, they know the R1 will be a fail so they're going to call it the R3N instead. They dropped the R3 price so they could price the R3N $500 more than the new R3 price and $500 less than the original R3 price.
I suspect the former. Or something simpler – sales have slowed down and they want to increase them (of course, that could be related to moving current stock ahead of replacements).