Amazon.com Limited Edition Pink Ribbon DS Lite $129.99

I hate charities like this. What happens if that foundation do find a cure. I bet directors will be making millions while only very few who can afford it gets the cure.
 
[quote name='laaj']I hate charities like this. What happens if that foundation do find a cure. I bet directors will be making millions while only very few who can afford it gets the cure.[/quote]

Every child in the nation can get polio and smallpox vaccinations for no cost if they can't afford it. I don't see how this would be any different.
 
[quote name='Kerig']Every child in the nation can get polio and smallpox vaccinations for no cost if they can't afford it. I don't see how this would be any different.[/quote]

That's just two good examples but there are many other cures for diseases which aren't given away for free. So far I don't know where this foundation's views are on that.
 
[quote name='laaj']That's just two good examples but there are many other cures for diseases which aren't given away for free. So far I don't know where this foundation's views are on that.[/quote]

And were they discovered by foundations or private for-profit companies? You need a little more understanding of what you're talking about before you go on about how much you hate charities like this.
 
[quote name='laaj']That's just two good examples but there are many other cures for diseases which aren't given away for free. So far I don't know where this foundation's views are on that.[/QUOTE]

And yet you hate.

Thanks for the heads up, OP. I remember in the past they did this promotion with plain ol' ds lites. I didn't know they were making an actual limited edition for this.
 
To stay strictly on topic: Does anyone actually have any interest in something like this? Not the $5 donation part, but a white DSLite with a big pink BC Ribbon on it...

I remember they did the donation thing with the pink DSLite as well which was perfect, but this one seems very unappealing as a whole.

It also feels creepy offering a product involving breasts to a core audience who have never seen a real one in person: children and nerds. :)
 
Kerig: That's what makes this so freakin' fascinating.
This obviously isn't for the core audience, it is another way to market the DS towards women.
There is no way this would've been done before Nintendo changed the market with the DS and Wii.
 
I don't mind the charity at all, and I think charities are a great thing, but what's so sad is that the "pink ribbon" has passed charity status and is now just simply fashionable and people buy it just because it's "hip".
 
"Nintendo will donate $5.00 to Susan G. Komen for the Cure for each Limited Edition Pink Ribbon DS Lite handheld gaming console sold, with a guaranteed minimum donation of $100,000.00."

That could mean at least 20,000 of this DS version.
 
So this is a deal? or just an announcement about a good cause? if it is the latter, doesn't this belong in the news section or somewhere else?
 
[quote name='Kerig']Every child in the nation can get polio and smallpox vaccinations for no cost if they can't afford it. I don't see how this would be any different.[/quote]

Smallpox??? What? I thought the government didn't have enough vaccine to inoculate the entire population. If we got hit with a biological attack like that, a good chunk of Americans would die, sorry.

Also, my issue with this DS promo is that I don't understand when PINK became the color of Cancer! I'm not sure I like that. Should I think of cancerous breasts when I see PINK?!? :bomb:

Couldn't they have done a more unique (and less naturally occurring) color???
 
[quote name='Kerig']Some things just aren't meant to go together. Sadly, breasts and DS are one of them.[/quote]

you mean DS and cancer brest..
 
Just bought one today!!
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[quote name='iceblast21']Smallpox??? What? I thought the government didn't have enough vaccine to inoculate the entire population. If we got hit with a biological attack like that, a good chunk of Americans would die, sorry.
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Well your right and wrong. There is not enough Vaccine in stock because smallpox, for the the most part, has been eradicated in the industrialized world. The issue with the vaccine is that it has the potential to reintroduce Smallpox, and because smallpox is all but gone people don't get the vaccine any more.
 
As a breast cancer survivor, I appreciate how the susan komen foundation makes people aware. Breast cancer strikes not only women, but men also. I wish I could get this, but I have medical bills! Peace:D
 
[quote name='evanft']Wouldn't it be better to just donate the $5 yourself?[/QUOTE]

Probably, but then that would be OT! But then, others have chimed in with "NOT A DEAL!"

[quote name='Lipscomba']As a breast cancer survivor, I appreciate how the susan komen foundation makes people aware. Breast cancer strikes not only women, but men also. I wish I could get this, but I have medical bills! Peace:D[/QUOTE]

Ultimately, I'd say that awareness is the goal and to have the topic come up on a video game deal forum is not bad. That is to say, when would this have ever come up?
 
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