Nintendo DS Lite — sold out?
Apparently even 8 months after its release, the Nintendo DS Lite is sold out almost everywhere but ebay and price-inflated resellers. I’ve taken a look at most online and retail stores, and indeed the portable game systems are nowhere to be found. This comes at an inopportune time for a friend of mine, who wants to buy a Nintendo DS for her husband’s birthday.
Could the systems really be that popular? Or has Nintendo just focused production on the Wii (which, by the way, is also still completely sold out)? I All indications seem to point to hot sales. According to PunchJump, 35 million Nintendo DS units have been sold so far, and the Wii and DS games lead the top-ten list on Amazon. DS games have also been making a killing in Japan.
And the systems are apparently attractive to child molesters too. That’s a couple of million sales right there.
So if you were thinking about picking up one of these devices, good luck. My guess is they’ll probably be available sometime this summer.
(the image for this post was originally photographed by Havok on Wikipedia).