wraggster
July 20th, 2006, 13:42
News from Lik Sang (http://www.lik-sang.com/news.php?artc=3869&lsaid=219793)
Seems like every second day there is a new flavor of Nintendo DS Lite coming from Kyoto lately! After the initial three colors, the handheld has been recently made available in a Black iteration over in Europe and today was the release day for the Noble Pink edition over in Japan. We received a first batch yesterday night while the balance of our delivery is expected to reach our warehouse tomorrow. Unit retail price is set at US$ 199. We should be able to ship all preorders within the next 48 hours, new orders placed from this minute on are likely to be processed this coming Monday - provided that there is no shortage in the meantime, as our sources on the ground in Nippon report demand to be very high on the new unit. This has a reason: all other colors are sold out all the time, and out of 100 Japanese gamers searching to buy a Nintendo DS, only 55 to 60 in average can find one, and this for the last 2 months, according to some recent surveys. With Final Fantasy III coming up next month, the market is about to get even crazier on the island: DS fans will just snatch whichever color they can.
http://image.lik-sang.com/content/nds-lite/small/ds-lite-pink2.jpg
Seems like every second day there is a new flavor of Nintendo DS Lite coming from Kyoto lately! After the initial three colors, the handheld has been recently made available in a Black iteration over in Europe and today was the release day for the Noble Pink edition over in Japan. We received a first batch yesterday night while the balance of our delivery is expected to reach our warehouse tomorrow. Unit retail price is set at US$ 199. We should be able to ship all preorders within the next 48 hours, new orders placed from this minute on are likely to be processed this coming Monday - provided that there is no shortage in the meantime, as our sources on the ground in Nippon report demand to be very high on the new unit. This has a reason: all other colors are sold out all the time, and out of 100 Japanese gamers searching to buy a Nintendo DS, only 55 to 60 in average can find one, and this for the last 2 months, according to some recent surveys. With Final Fantasy III coming up next month, the market is about to get even crazier on the island: DS fans will just snatch whichever color they can.
http://image.lik-sang.com/content/nds-lite/small/ds-lite-pink2.jpg