The DS Lite has officially made its debut in Japan. Full report inside.
The Nintendo DS Lite has now officially arrived in Japan. At 8:00 pm Eastern standard time, 10:00 am Japanese time, the upgraded portable gaming device was unleashed upon frenzied Japanese gamers throughout the country.
The official price of the upgraded portable is 16,800 yen, roughly $139.99 in the United States, however the asking price has risen considerably for interested importers. Online retailers such as Lik-Sang and Play Asia originally offered the device for a respectable $169.99, however the going rate has risen to some $299.99 in some cases. To put it simply, if you want a DS Lite within the next week or two, be prepared to empty your wallet.
In total, the DS Lite is twenty-one percent lighter and forty-two percent smaller than the original Nintendo DS. The system's specifications amount to 133 mm wide by 73.9 mm tall by 21.5 mm thick compared to the original version's 148.7 mm wide by 84.7 mm tall by 28.99 dimensions
Nintendo has high hopes for the Nintendo DS, as they fully expect to ship an unprecedented ten million units of both versions by the end of the year in Japan. If this were to occur it would shatter previous sales records for the country. Released in Japan during the month of December 2004, the Nintendo DS has been on the market for roughly fifteen months, twenty-one by June. If the Nintendo DS does indeed breach the ten million mark in Japan it will have done so before both the Playstation 2 and Game Boy Advance, two incredibly popular Japanese platforms.
The Nintendo DS Lite has now officially arrived in Japan. At 8:00 pm Eastern standard time, 10:00 am Japanese time, the upgraded portable gaming device was unleashed upon frenzied Japanese gamers throughout the country.
The official price of the upgraded portable is 16,800 yen, roughly $139.99 in the United States, however the asking price has risen considerably for interested importers. Online retailers such as Lik-Sang and Play Asia originally offered the device for a respectable $169.99, however the going rate has risen to some $299.99 in some cases. To put it simply, if you want a DS Lite within the next week or two, be prepared to empty your wallet.
In total, the DS Lite is twenty-one percent lighter and forty-two percent smaller than the original Nintendo DS. The system's specifications amount to 133 mm wide by 73.9 mm tall by 21.5 mm thick compared to the original version's 148.7 mm wide by 84.7 mm tall by 28.99 dimensions
Nintendo has high hopes for the Nintendo DS, as they fully expect to ship an unprecedented ten million units of both versions by the end of the year in Japan. If this were to occur it would shatter previous sales records for the country. Released in Japan during the month of December 2004, the Nintendo DS has been on the market for roughly fifteen months, twenty-one by June. If the Nintendo DS does indeed breach the ten million mark in Japan it will have done so before both the Playstation 2 and Game Boy Advance, two incredibly popular Japanese platforms.