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DS Lite Street Date Broken
The_Toad08 writes "Apparently June 11th didn't mean a thing to the Big Box retailers, as the Nintendo DS Lite has been spotted for sale in several of these stores." From Ars Technica's coverage: "After some digging through all the blogs running the story, I discovered it originated from Cheap Ass Gamer, where one of their mods was able to grab a system from Target. There's even a picture of the system next to its US packaging, so this looks legit. Until finding them gets a little bit more widespread though, I wouldn't get your hopes up. Even though I'm lovingly cradling my Enamel Blue DS Liite that I imported, I'm going to hit the streets in a few hours to see if I can't track one down and confirm this, so look for an update to this story." Anybody lucky enough to pick one up yet?
Like what was the point (other than the shortage of lites they had in Japan) of not releasing them all over? The DS isnt region encoded so you could always import one over to the US, so why wait to ship it?
The point IS the shortage, methinks.
If Nintendo can't produce enough units to meet Japanese demand, what hope do they have of producing enough units to meet WORLDWIDE demand?
By staggering the release dates in different markets, they're able to level off the demand curve a bit.
The DS isnt region encoded so you could always import one over to the US
Warranties (for dead pixels and the like) are always region coded.