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Japan Still Lining Up For DS Lites (Yes, STILL.)

noginn — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 05:40:27 MST

When I was over in NJ just before Christmas I had no difficulty getting hold of one. I am from the UK, so thought I'd get it over there as it's a lot more expensive here.

When did the big shortage arrive?

noginn

Japan Still Lining Up For DS Lites (Yes, STILL.)

Lateef — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 22:47:30 MST

You know, I remember seeing only a small amount of them at Target the other day. I didn't think it they were that popular still. Wow.

Lateef

Japan Still Lining Up For DS Lites (Yes, STILL.)

Big_Jock — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 17:33:04 MST

I friggin love my lite. Anyone got any tips for starting out in homebrew? Got My M3 Simply. Just dont really know where to start. xx

Big_Jock

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Infil — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 18:10:03 MST

SWATdoctor: Don't forget DQIX. I've heard there are a few fans of the franchise in Japan.

Infil

Japan Still Lining Up For DS Lites (Yes, STILL.)

SWATdoctor — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:29:10 MST

The DS may be on track for the title of best console ever, and it still has some more killer aps up it's sleeve waiting to be unveiled in the faces of
Pokemon D&P (once that hits NA sales are gonna surpass the 45 million mark)
Final Fantasy XII: Reverent Wings
Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (this is gonna be a real console seller)

SWATdoctor

Japan Still Lining Up For DS Lites (Yes, STILL.)

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:17:35 MST

Jean Snow's a good buddy of ours. He helped out big time with covering TGS last year and the Wii launch.

Brian Ashcraft

Japan Still Lining Up For DS Lites (Yes, STILL.)

Spence10 — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:09:05 MST

I work at a Canadian best buy and we can't keep the things in. Nintendo will send 20-40 at a time, and they are gone within the day. Keep in mind that this is the smallest best buy in the city.

Spence10

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CrimemasterGogo — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 15:29:15 MST

Well I live in Bradford and honestly theres always Ds in stock but thats probably because its Sony fanboy central down here anyway the Wii has been sold out since launch so I guess the tide is changing. I play my Ds alot in public and its funny coz some people start walking behind me constantly and give tips when i keep dying in yoshis islnd.

CrimemasterGogo

Japan Still Lining Up For DS Lites (Yes, STILL.)

xpnet — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 15:22:51 MST

I love my Navi-Blue DS.. Had my DS Lite way before most people in the US thanks to the late Lin-sang.

xpnet

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caleb — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 15:21:39 MST

Um, if anyone makes it down to Ardmore Oklahoma there are 9 lite's in stock at our local Walmart as we speak...well as of my lunch break. After reading this article I went and checked. Could be because we aren't a "huge" town.

caleb

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sanjiyan — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 15:00:30 MST

2 quip

Give a PSP as the booby prize.

sanjiyan

Japan Still Lining Up For DS Lites (Yes, STILL.)

Altima NEO — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:49:25 MST

I take it the Japanese dont know much about a concept we have embraced here in the United States, online shopping.

Altima NEO

Japan Still Lining Up For DS Lites (Yes, STILL.)

qwip — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:01:54 MST

I'm outside of Philly. A few weeks ago my wife asked what cool electronics would be good employee give-aways (morale boosters). I suggested Dunkin Donut giftcards, postable DVD players, iPod Shuffles, and Nintendo DSs with the BrainAge game.

The give-away even is next Wednesday and she dragged me out shopping at Best Buy this afternoon for all the loot. Well, there were no DS's in stock. Turns out they're holding back their DS stock because of an ad this Sunday. And so is Circuit City. She's kinda screwed.

qwip

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YCS — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 13:51:26 MST

Took me a week and a half to find one in the states and that was only a few weeks ago. Even then the only one I found was pink. It's nuts how hard it is to find one of these things.

YCS

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Norsehawk — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 13:35:24 MST

during my trip to Japan last year (nov-dec) I saw first hand the number of ds sales and items that go along with it. I also gaijin smashed my way into quite a few stores in Akiba and was able to buy quite a few good games for my little American ds.

I first imported a Black Japanese DS, and when the lite came out stateside, I grabbed one of the first shipment ones from work, never regretted my purchase.

Norsehawk

Japan Still Lining Up For DS Lites (Yes, STILL.)

Isomeri — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 13:02:55 MST

I could export my DS Lite to Japan and make ONE HUND... ONE MILLION DOLLARS!

Isomeri

Japan Still Lining Up For DS Lites (Yes, STILL.)

karimagon — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:34:35 MST

Interesting. I got my ice blue one two days ago.

But I'd ordered it online. (In the states, ordered an import)

karimagon

Japan Still Lining Up For DS Lites (Yes, STILL.)

Scuba Steve — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:28:23 MST

Screw bringing your DS's to campus, I brought the Wii to my classes one day. Reminded me of that "Wii would like to play" commercial. Had almost everyone enjoying the hell out of wii sports.

For some reason, we had 2 controllers. Considering I just randomly decided to bring my console, it was weird that another guy in my class decided to bring his wiimote.

But it was all for the best. Projector golf is awesome.

Scuba Steve

Japan Still Lining Up For DS Lites (Yes, STILL.)

sav127 — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:17:41 MST

I 've seen a pink one a few times in the last few weeks, but black and white, forget it. Their nowhere to be seen in Northeast PA.

sav127

Japan Still Lining Up For DS Lites (Yes, STILL.)

Shachihoko — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:13:20 MST

None here in Las Vegas.

Shachihoko

Japan Still Lining Up For DS Lites (Yes, STILL.)

rayblasdel — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:08:28 MST

I saw some pink DSlites at my Wal-mart yesterday. Never see any of the white though.

rayblasdel

Japan Still Lining Up For DS Lites (Yes, STILL.)

Whitster — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 11:54:22 MST

I noticed the same thing here in the UK (Liverpool to be exact). After looking in every game store only HMV had some pink DS's in stock. Everywhere else was sold out.

Whitster

Japan Still Lining Up For DS Lites (Yes, STILL.)

Soulgenesis — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 11:45:39 MST

absolutely none here in hawaii.

i have my navy blue lite from launch :)

Soulgenesis

Japan Still Lining Up For DS Lites (Yes, STILL.)

kingofallcosmos — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 11:38:26 MST

I haven't seen a DS here in Sacramento for several months, probably about a month after pink and black were released.

kingofallcosmos

Japan Still Lining Up For DS Lites (Yes, STILL.)

EtherFreak — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 11:31:44 MST

Same situation outside Boston area. All the stores are sold out constantly. DS Lites get stocked every couple weeks and immediately disappear. I guess this is a good thing for Nintendo, but I have to wonder if they'd be making more sales if the units were always on the shelf? I'd love to know some facts as to the appearance of a shortage here in the U.S.

EtherFreak

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Yetanotheruninspiredscreename — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 11:26:32 MST

What's stopping them is the time it takes to set up the factories.

That takes time.

Your best would be to hit one of the store tracking services. Do a websearch for a free one. There are several that will tell you when a DS lite or wii is in stock. Call the store though.

Yetanotheruninspiredscreename

Japan Still Lining Up For DS Lites (Yes, STILL.)

battlemaus — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 11:00:20 MST

are ds sales ever going to slow down!?

battlemaus

Japan Still Lining Up For DS Lites (Yes, STILL.)

Isaac VanDuyn — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:58:23 MST

I'm just adding that where I live (Rochester, NY), it is extremely hard to find one. I'm going to Britain on vacation in a couple months and wanted to buy my girlfriend one for the myriad journeys so she'd stop stealing mine, and I am having a heckuva time.

After visiting the stores I thought that maybe I'd have better luck online, but that's not the case at all.

What's stopping Nintendo from making more of these things?

Isaac VanDuyn

Japan Still Lining Up For DS Lites (Yes, STILL.)

KurtSubvert — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:52:15 MST

Japan seems kind of crazy in that their top 10 games selling list seems to permanently be filled with like 8 or 9 DSy brain training or cooking simulation or puppy simulation or whatever type games, and maybe one game in the top ten list will be a traditional rpg or action game for a ps2 or whatever.
Has it gotten to the point in Japan where the vast majority of games are played by the middle aged and little girls and not geeky teenage boys?
'cause that would blow my mind if it was the case

KurtSubvert

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aden.exe — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:35:31 MST

"How many DS's have sold? 27 million worldwide?"

35.24 million last time I checked.

aden.exe

Japan Still Lining Up For DS Lites (Yes, STILL.)

Zadaz — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:34:51 MST

Congrasts. After 6 months I got lucky two weeks ago when I was walking by the Yurakucho Bic Camera. On a friday afternoon "behind" the store (not the station side) they had a line and 5 dedicated registers to sell the just-in DS shipment.

There were only 10 people in line, so I finally picked mine up.

A week previous in the Shinjuku Bic Camera on Saturday around noon there was a line with exactly 83 people in it for the DS lite.

I counted. 83. I was in the store for half an hour and a lot of people got DS, the line didn't get any shorter.

It's difficult to even buy DS related goods. In every store the DS game and accessory aisles are so full of people browsing you have to push and shove to get a look at a replacement stylus.

Zadaz

Japan Still Lining Up For DS Lites (Yes, STILL.)

Yetanotheruninspiredscreename — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:34:16 MST

It's closer to 40 million sold repeat sold not shipped worldwide.

Sony is slashing psp shipments while Nintendo keeps increasing the manufactoring of both DS units and games.

Heck Japan on a good week sells over a 100,000 DS lites and they are sold out within hours of arriving.

Same thing is now occuring in the states and Europe.

Yetanotheruninspiredscreename

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omgjuicyjuice — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:30:01 MST

ya, i believe it. i'm in gamecrazy weekly and then walk over to circuit city. every time i'm in gc, there are never any ds's, lite and phat. the past three times i was in gc, at least one person has asked if they had any. over at cc, none as well. they ds library of games is extensive, and i'm having trouble keeping up with the releases, DKR is coming out soon, and i still havn't finished up hotel dusk. i really wish sony would follow suit with the psp. the don't have enough game genres. my psp is so jealous of my ds right now

omgjuicyjuice

Japan Still Lining Up For DS Lites (Yes, STILL.)

DeathKat — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:23:34 MST

Wait, now you guys have two in japan? im confused, please explain if ya don't mind

DeathKat

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Torusan — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:22:18 MST

where ever I turn my head I see someone sitting on a bench playing his DS. Nintendo sure know what they're doing these days!

Man, I want to see this EVERYWHERE. I started to play my DS on campus in public, seeing if it helps other people to bring their DSes so we can just be one freakin' big gaming community.

Torusan

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Gamerleet0374 — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:04:07 MST

How many DS's have sold? 27 million worldwide?
Because the demand seems like it should be higher.

Gamerleet0374

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iwanttobeasleep — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:52:04 MST

I was looking for a DS a few weeks ago, and it's insaney hard to get one state side too. Now whenever I go into a Best Buy or Gamestop I check and see if they have any, and so far all I've seen is one scratched up, used Phat.

iwanttobeasleep

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Darkest Daze — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:51:58 MST

Yep, all the stores around here sell out of the DS as soon as it hits the shelf. The last time I saw them hanging around on a shelf was a couple months before x-mas. Since then, nothing, except one or 2 now and then.

Darkest Daze

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rbernard80 — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:50:10 MST

We'd be lining up over here in the states too if we had any idea when the stores would actually get some stock.

rbernard80

Japan Still Lining Up For DS Lites (Yes, STILL.)

Spilt_Milk — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:45:59 MST

They still sell out within 30 minutes of coming into the stores here in Michigan and Florida.

Spilt_Milk

Japan Still Lining Up For DS Lites (Yes, STILL.)

TakeoNinja — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:40:33 MST

Awesomely strong sales... There totally out of stock most of the time here in Sweden to, I strongly believe that almost every person alive that likes games own one these days, where ever I turn my head I see someone sitting on a bench playing his DS. Nintendo sure know what they're doing these days!

TakeoNinja

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sweetasman01 — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:39:12 MST

Wow really?

I can go to any game store in town a find 4 or 5 in each colour in EVERY store.

I live in New Zealand where the DS (and Nintendo) are not popular.

sweetasman01

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TOCATL — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:38:52 MST

The surpricing is that some people still think that the PSP is going to destroy the DS. Hey SONY where is your PSP line?, ohh you dont have one sorry :( , you only have stacked PSPs, LOL...

TOCATL

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banzaiwolfe — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:37:01 MST

It's probably a combination of both.

banzaiwolfe

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B1663R — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:34:30 MST

That's just crazy! i feel kinda bad now. i own a white one, a black one, and the big blue one.

in may i plan on getting the pink one for my daughter. sorry Japan.

B1663R

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aden.exe — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:30:57 MST

Nevermind, somehow missed the italic sentence.

But is this because of low stock shipments or awesomely strong sales?

aden.exe

Japan Still Lining Up For DS Lites (Yes, STILL.)

psychlotron — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:30:40 MST

There are none in my town and I'm in the states.

psychlotron

Japan Still Lining Up For DS Lites (Yes, STILL.)

Kotae — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:29:02 MST

Bit nuts that they have to do that still, but then again.. it's like looking for a needle in a haystack to find a DS here also. I got lucky a couple weeks ago and found one - a black one too, so I think the Nintendo gods smile upon me. Especially since I managed to find a Wii about a week later. Score.

Kotae

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aden.exe — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:27:30 MST

Jean Snow? Really? Explain.

aden.exe