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cvxfreak · Mar 11, 2006

At this point I think the DS has a good chance of becoming the best selling Japanese platform of all time, surpassing the Famicom and PSone.

Yamauchi · Mar 11, 2006

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/ds-lite/blue-ds-lite-launch-crushed-dreams-and-lemon-tea-159784.php

Whew. Reserve tickets. Im number 1850 in line. That means even though there are 1849 people in front of me, Ive done it. Ive bagged the prize. Wait a little longer, exchange this for a Lite and were good to go.

He got there before dawn by the way.

Wario64 · Mar 11, 2006

i didnt want to make a new thread aobut it so i'll stick it in here

the newest EGM says that DS lite will be coming to the U.S in may and while the price isn't specified, they said they heard that the Lite may sell for $130

Lyte Edge · Mar 11, 2006

Didn't get one today; the line outside the store I went to had about 30 people ahead of me, but since most of them were families, I only missed out by about three people. I got there at 8am; if I had come an hour earlier, I'm sure I would have gotten a DS Lite, but oh well...I can wait.

Went to a Geo after and was told if I wanted a DS Lite I could put my name down for one...in MAY. Nintendo, get your shit straight.

Rareside scored one though

mj1108 · Mar 11, 2006

Wario64 said:
i didnt want to make a new thread aobut it so i'll stick it in here

the newest EGM says that DS lite will be coming to the U.S in may and while the price isn't specified, they said they heard that the Lite may sell for $130

At this rate, I don't see that happening until Nintendo gets their production straightened out.

Trurl · Mar 11, 2006

Wario64 said:
i didnt want to make a new thread aobut it so i'll stick it in here

the newest EGM says that DS lite will be coming to the U.S in may and while the price isn't specified, they said they heard that the Lite may sell for $130

That would be awesome if true. I've assumed that the DS lite will sell for $150 and drop to $130 after the original DS is retired, at that rate it would take forever for the DS to reach the sub $100 pricepoint.

Jonnyram · Mar 11, 2006

cvxfreak said:
=( Sorry about that.

Oh, did you work on the Valkyrie Profile port?

GaimeGuy · Mar 11, 2006

Good god, what the hell kind of a monster has Nintendo created? O_O

cvxfreak · Mar 11, 2006

Jonnyram said:
Oh, did you work on the Valkyrie Profile port?

:lol

clearacell · Mar 11, 2006

Oh god this is so damn insane...THEY NEED TO SHIP MORE :|. Importers must be smacking their heads against the wall everytime they see those Japanese launch lines...just means you guys ain't seeing a DS-lite for another month

Trurl · Mar 11, 2006

I'm sure that the answer is somewher in the this thread but it's 18 pages long so I don't feel like searching.

How many DSLs have been shipped? Would there be shortages even without insane demand? I'm not real sure what sane demand would be but oh well.

meltpotato · Mar 11, 2006

Trurl said:
I'm sure that the answer is somewher in the this thread but it's 18 pages long so I don't feel like searching.

How many DSLs have been shipped? Would there be shortages even without insane demand? I'm not real sure what sane demand would be but oh well.

according to mediacreate last week about 62k if i remember correctly. the rummor was 82k about a day before launch. i have been unable to obtain a number or an estimate for this weeks shipment

TurtleSnatcher · Mar 11, 2006

Gamestop now has DS Lite Accessories on Pre-Release SKU's in there database for a May release..

At the same time, Nintendo is having yet another DS Bundle come out next month (with mario kart again)

wtf? =[

cvxfreak · Mar 11, 2006

PezRadar said:
Gamestop now has DS Lite Accessories on Pre-Release SKU's in there database for a May release..

At the same time, Nintendo is having yet another DS Bundle come out next month (with mario kart again)

wtf? =[

Ah, Nintendo realized the error of their ways by discontinuing that bundle.

meltpotato · Mar 11, 2006

PezRadar said:
Gamestop now has DS Lite Accessories on Pre-Release SKU's in there database for a May release..

At the same time, Nintendo is having yet another DS Bundle come out next month (with mario kart again)

wtf? =[

im not seeing the bundle... link? im buying my brother an original ds for his bday

maynerd · Mar 11, 2006

WTF the DS is just insane in Japan!

TurtleSnatcher · Mar 11, 2006

meltpotato said:
im not seeing the bundle... link? im buying my brother an original ds for his bday

Its not on the site yet, just in the computers at the actual stores.

BTW: I dont think its the red one.. its probably gonna be like the animal crossing bundle

Trurl · Mar 11, 2006

PezRadar said:
Its not on the site yet, just in the computers at the actual stores.

OMG! Bundleton!

Smiles and Cries · Mar 11, 2006

dannie said:
http://www.geocities.jp/srqjx458/NDSL/0311/P1000822.rm
i can't say anything......let see the video

AM 4:XX...............over 1400 people

I love this kind of love for Nintendo... I wonder if its the iPod looks or the Games?

This is thePokemon *craze fad* but for a gaming hardware

AWESOME VID

Wario64 · Mar 11, 2006

PezRadar said:
Gamestop now has DS Lite Accessories on Pre-Release SKU's in there database for a May release..

At the same time, Nintendo is having yet another DS Bundle come out next month (with mario kart again)

wtf? =[

i thought it wasn't a bundle? just some mario themed case for the nds

TurtleSnatcher · Mar 11, 2006

Wario64 said:
i thought it wasn't a bundle? just some mario themed case for the nds

Erm.. No the Mario themed case I saw was a DS Lite Mario Themed Case coming out in May.. from BD&A

The Mario Kart Bundle is coming out I believe late this month

http://www.gamestop.com/product.asp?product_id=802265

Wario64 · Mar 11, 2006

nevermind

Foil · Mar 11, 2006

This is crazy.

I have zero interest in handhelds, but yet part of me now wants a DSL. :lol

meltpotato · Mar 11, 2006

Foil said:
This is crazy.

I have zero interest in handhelds, but yet part of me now wants a DSL. :lol

sounds like somebody is feeling the magic

Monk · Mar 11, 2006

Jonnyram said:
Needless to say, I was playing my PSP in the queue, and I'm pretty pissed off how crap the port of Valkyrie Profile is too... what a depressing morning

I...I... feel like crying.

Juice · Mar 11, 2006

What's funny is that over the summer in kansai, demand for the DS didn't seem all that strong (sales show that). I mean, I'd see a kid with Nintendogs now and then, but the DS always had ample, ample stock at Yodobashi-Umeda.

Seeing those pictures now is just a mind-fuck. Japanese rallying behind whatever breaks ahead as the most popular entry via their conditioned herd instinct FTW.

I hate when Yamauchi is right... rise to heaven it is, then.

soundwave05 · Mar 11, 2006

Juice said:
What's funny is that over the summer in kansai, demand for the DS didn't seem all that strong (sales show that). I mean, I'd see a kid with Nintendogs now and then, but the DS always had ample, ample stock at Yodobashi-Umeda.

Seeing those pictures now is just a mind-fuck. Japanese rallying behind whatever breaks ahead as the most popular entry via their conditioned herd instinct FTW.

I hate when Yamauchi is right... rise to heaven it is, then.

Nintendogs got things going, but it's when Brian Training came out last May that the system went into another gear. Then Nintendo had a monsterous year end holiday rush.

polg · Mar 11, 2006

zomg...

this is just INSANE

krypt0nian · Mar 11, 2006

So much for my Enamel Navy lite getting here before Hunters/Tetris....

<sobs>

soundwave05 · Mar 11, 2006

This is the most insane thing I've ever seen for game hardware. Yes ... even beyond the 360 lineups here in North America.

What's the "roof" on this? Could Nintendo sell 1 million DSLs ... 2 million DSLs in a month if they could actually supply it? This is scary.

TurtleSnatcher · Mar 11, 2006

Im not sure how to describe the DS Lite lines.. Its just amazing..

How long were previous consoles like Gamecube, and PS2? Similar?

mj1108 · Mar 11, 2006

soundwave05 said:
This is the most insane thing I've ever seen for game hardware. Yes ... even beyond the 360 lineups here in North America.

What's the "roof" on this? Could Nintendo sell 1 million DSLs ... 2 million DSLs in a month if they could actually supply it? This is scary.

The way it seems to be going over there, they are selling them faster than they can make them which makes the whole situation abso-fucking-lutely ridiculous.

We're supposed to see these kinds of lines for new hardware.....not a piece of hardware that is redesigned and has a couple new colors -- and have the people in line playing with the current (old) version of the DS while waiting to buy the new one.

Insane. Absolutely insane.

gjb-sensei · Mar 11, 2006

PezRadar said:
Im not sure how to describe the DS Lite lines.. Its just amazing..

How long were previous consoles like Gamecube, and PS2? Similar?

This has to be much worse than the PS2's launch in Japan, which was pretty major.

Even if you make the comparison, though, it isn't direct as the PS2 was a new console and the DS Lite is a mere redesign. It's still mindblowingly unbelievable any way you measure it, though.

GaimeGuy · Mar 11, 2006

soundwave05 said:
This is the most insane thing I've ever seen for game hardware. Yes ... even beyond the 360 lineups here in North America.

What's the "roof" on this? Could Nintendo sell 1 million DSLs ... 2 million DSLs in a month if they could actually supply it? This is scary.

I don't remember ANYTHING like this ever happening before.

You have somewhere between 1 and 4 thousand people lining up for DSLs at various stores in Osaka and Tokyo, and then you have hundreds lining up at smaller stores.

It is absolute insanity, and I don't think any of the gameboys, the Famicom, PS, or PS2 did anything like this.

Juice · Mar 11, 2006

mj1108 said:
The way it seems to be going over there, they are selling them faster than they can make them which makes the whole situation abso-fucking-lutely ridiculous.

We're supposed to see these kinds of lines for new hardware.....not a piece of hardware that is redesigned and has a couple new colors -- and have the people in line playing with the current (old) version of the DS while waiting to buy the new one.

Insane. Absolutely insane.

Well, this is also an unusual redesign. It takes place only 14 months after the console's initial introduction and its redesign is pretty much purely aesthetic, but a HUGE leap.

But yeah....... holy fucking fuck.

(just saw one of those PSP dust bunny ads about it being like carpet you can look at outside or some shit... where the fuck did sony go wrong?))

soundwave05 · Mar 11, 2006

Did you see that look? Ooooh ... Mr. Yamauchi indicating that he can't believe it!

(Someone photoshop Yamauchi's head onto Michael Jordan's shrugging pose from the '92 Finals please)

:lol

metropolis · Mar 11, 2006

oh damn. who was it that thought third parties were gonna treat the PSP with as much respect as the DS? i'm sure capcom has seen these lines too.

shuri · Mar 11, 2006

I really cant believe the insanity of it all.

gjb-sensei · Mar 11, 2006

Juice said:
(just saw one of those PSP dust bunny ads about it being like carpet you can look at outside or some shit... where the fuck did sony go wrong?))

Marketing, library of games, not knowing what to market the PSP as (is it a gaming handheld that can also play movies, etc. or vice versa (that also falls under marketing)) come to mind.

soundwave05 · Mar 11, 2006

Sony really didn't do much wrong.

They just got blindsighted by Nintendo ... viciously.

The one thing Sony I think can be faulted for is their software library for the PSP in Japan has not kept pace with the DS at all.

It's Monster Hunter selling, and then you have like one new PSP game that might get into the top ten and fall waaaay off the next week.

I thought TalkMan and Winning Eleven would be much bigger sellers for them.

gjb-sensei · Mar 11, 2006

shuri said:
I really cant believe the insanity of it all.

To think how far we've come regarding the DS... when it was originally announced, so many people were so set on it being the second coming of the Virtual Boy, and now, there is a chance that in the end, it could become the best selling piece of video game hardware of all-time.

Nintendo is invincible in the handheld arena; that's all that needs to be said. I may come off as a fanboy, but it's the truth. They own handheld gaming and not even Sony with their PlayStation brand can knock them off of the top of the mountain.

GaimeGuy · Mar 11, 2006

It would be interesting to see how the press around the world responds to this. Most likely, they'll ignore it, but there's a chance, if this ridiculousness continues or becomes more ridiculous, that it'll get some coverage.

sammy · Mar 11, 2006

....... good lord ......

I mean, go Nintendo ---- but damn, don't fuck your audience like some other companies we know of..... should've held back a few weeks to get the #'s manufactured, it wasn't as if you were having a hard time cranking the old model :lol

... I'm confused how importers work? Do they have people camped out, or do they get their own supply??

Juice · Mar 11, 2006

sammy said:
... I'm confused how importers work? Do they have people camped out, or do they get their own supply??

They actually build their own units.

No, better yet, they tell Nintendo to give them some directly.

Those in the know will realize the latter is even more outlandish.

sammy · Mar 11, 2006

Juice said:
They actually build their own units.

No, better yet, they tell Nintendo to give them some directly.

Those in the know will realize the latter is even more outlandish.

it's late, and i can't tell if you're bein' an ass ---- really now, I know folks that preordered on the minute the damn thing was announced (and i was pretty early on the uptake too) -- yet nothing, I'm just wondering how importers go about getting their supply - something I've never even wondered about.

Juice · Mar 11, 2006

sammy said:
it's late, and i can't tell if you're bein' an ass ---- really now, I know folks that preordered on the minute the damn thing was announced (and i was pretty early on the uptake too) -- yet nothing, I'm just wondering how importers go about getting their supply - something I've never even wondered about.

In a case where demand is like this. Importers don't get theirs. They'll grab as many as they can, but it'll be in the tens of units.

TurtleSnatcher · Mar 11, 2006

sammy said:
it's late, and i can't tell if you're bein' an ass ---- really now, I know folks that preordered on the minute the damn thing was announced (and i was pretty early on the uptake too) -- yet nothing, I'm just wondering how importers go about getting their supply - something I've never even wondered about.

Importers like Lik-Sang etc go through like a 3rd party supplier for units either in HKong or in Japan itself. They usually put a down payment for a reservation of so many units, but when supply is low the places then take the opportunity to abuse the "We can change prices when we want too" on the import sites thus creating something called "Price Gouging"

Import sites cant really stop this from really occuring until supply meets demand.