Nintendo is usually boisterous with early PR updating fans and stockholders about a system launch. I'm not sure if I missed it but did Nintendo mention the DS in the past few days?
I'd say they're waiting until Monday to make some huge sales announcement so they can include Black Friday stuff in there. And talk about "Strong sales of all of their hardware" and shit like that.
No, but first signs is that Nintendo is optimistic:
Nintendo raised its global DS sales forecast for the fiscal year through March 2005 on Thursday to 5 million from 4 million. It had initially targeted 3.5 million in global sales.