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http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3151124
http://www.gamespot.com/news/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=24673325&sid=6152074
http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3122&Itemid=2
http://igo.ampednews.com/news/4313/
[quote name='GameSpot']DS Lite launches early?
Source: A handful of posters on the Cheap Ass Gamer message boards.
The official story: A Nintendo representative told GameSpot the matter was being looked into, and that they would get back to us with details.
What we heard: Last night, a moderator on the Cheap Ass Gamer message boards going by the name of "Trakan" posted pictures of a Nintendo DS Lite he had apparently just purchased from his local Target, about a week and a half before the system's official on-sale date of June 11. The pictures show the North American DS Lite packaging, the system itself, a stylus, an AC adaptor, and a receipt. Details on the receipt aren't clearly visible, but Trakan said it only rang up as a Nintendo DS instead of a DS Lite.
That posting was followed by a number of people from around the country reporting that they had picked up DS Lite systems at their local Targets and Wal-Marts. However, plenty of posters reported failure in their attempts to find a system.
GameSpot's own attempts to find Target and Wal-Mart stores selling the system were similarly stymied. After striking out at three local area stores, we expanded the net. A Target near the company's Topeka, Kansas, distribution center wasn't carrying the systems yet, nor was a Wal-Mart nearby the company's Macon, Georgia distribution facility. Finally, we tried the Wisconsin Target where Trakan reported his DS Lite was purchased from. After some dissembling, the nervous-sounding clerk there told us they had the system in stock behind closed doors, but it wasn't going to go on sale until June 11.
If you need further evidence that DS Lites have made it to American shelves, check out eBay, where a handful are now being offered by multiple sellers. They don't appear to be selling as fast or as high as their Japanese counterparts did at launch, with one unit going for a Buy-It-Now price of $159.99 (but with a $40 shipping charge for US Postal Service Priority Mail), while another was bid up to $162.50 at press time.
Bogus or not bogus?: Bogus that Nintendo has launched the DS Lite early in the US. Not bogus that some stores accidentally broke street date on the system.[/quote]
take that frugalgamer!
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3151124
http://www.gamespot.com/news/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=24673325&sid=6152074
http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3122&Itemid=2
http://igo.ampednews.com/news/4313/
[quote name='GameSpot']DS Lite launches early?
Source: A handful of posters on the Cheap Ass Gamer message boards.
The official story: A Nintendo representative told GameSpot the matter was being looked into, and that they would get back to us with details.
What we heard: Last night, a moderator on the Cheap Ass Gamer message boards going by the name of "Trakan" posted pictures of a Nintendo DS Lite he had apparently just purchased from his local Target, about a week and a half before the system's official on-sale date of June 11. The pictures show the North American DS Lite packaging, the system itself, a stylus, an AC adaptor, and a receipt. Details on the receipt aren't clearly visible, but Trakan said it only rang up as a Nintendo DS instead of a DS Lite.
That posting was followed by a number of people from around the country reporting that they had picked up DS Lite systems at their local Targets and Wal-Marts. However, plenty of posters reported failure in their attempts to find a system.
GameSpot's own attempts to find Target and Wal-Mart stores selling the system were similarly stymied. After striking out at three local area stores, we expanded the net. A Target near the company's Topeka, Kansas, distribution center wasn't carrying the systems yet, nor was a Wal-Mart nearby the company's Macon, Georgia distribution facility. Finally, we tried the Wisconsin Target where Trakan reported his DS Lite was purchased from. After some dissembling, the nervous-sounding clerk there told us they had the system in stock behind closed doors, but it wasn't going to go on sale until June 11.
If you need further evidence that DS Lites have made it to American shelves, check out eBay, where a handful are now being offered by multiple sellers. They don't appear to be selling as fast or as high as their Japanese counterparts did at launch, with one unit going for a Buy-It-Now price of $159.99 (but with a $40 shipping charge for US Postal Service Priority Mail), while another was bid up to $162.50 at press time.
Bogus or not bogus?: Bogus that Nintendo has launched the DS Lite early in the US. Not bogus that some stores accidentally broke street date on the system.[/quote]
take that frugalgamer!
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