Nintendo DS : Price and Release Date!

[Dameon Angell]

Nintendo DS: $149 on November 21
Though it hasn't revealed the launch lineup, Nintendo announces that its dual-screen portable will ship first in the United States.

According to Reuters, Nintendo today announced that its forthcoming DS (or "dual screen") portable game system will be available in the United States in exactly two months. The system is reportedly slated for release on November 21 (which is actually a Sunday) for a suggested retail price of $149. This puts the system in the same relative price range as the current crop of consoles, but at nearly twice the cost of Nintendo's recently marked-down Game Boy Advance SP, whose software will be playable on the DS.

The Nintendo DS will release in Japan on December 2. Nintendo expects to ship about 4 million DS units worldwide by the end of the first quarter of 2005.

By Staff -- GameSpot
POSTED: 09/21/04 12:23 AM PST

Who's gonna get this? I'm waiting for PSP, personally.

And, an interesting fact, the DS is shipping here first, instead of Japan. Generally, it's the other way around. It's a good thing, cause we get it months earlier, but a bad thing, cause if the launch is bad in Japan, we get a "better" model here. So, we're the test subjects this time around.

[Arc]

I'm gonna get that then I'm gonna get Pokemon Fire Red to go with it.

[dchao]

Is it like Gameboy Advance or Gamecube?

[DoTheFandango]

It's smack dab in the middle. It looks cool, but I'm too lazy to waste money.

[Arc]

It's a portable N64

[Heatha]

I'm buying both DS and PSP, because I'm awesome.

[DOTSY]

hmmm not heard of both really

[Mr. Peanuts]

Me too. Nintendo always fuck around when it coems to European releases, buggers.

[DOTSY]

http://www.nintendo.com/e3_2004/ds/index.jsp

that's it?

[FFLeader]

Its much better than the PSP, aside from graphics, its a lot more ergonomical, cheaper and you don't need to buy extra games. You can play GBA games on it.

[Dameon Angell]

1. I don't wanna buy a 150 dollar system to play my old GBA games on it. I'm gonna buy the new shit.

2. Yes, Dotsy, that's it.

3. European's always get the short end of the stick when it comes to game/console releases. If a european company makes a console though, you can have your revenge on us. ^_-

4. And I'm 1/2 as cool as heatha cause I'm only getting a PSP :'(

Hmm, I wonder if the online gaming on the PSP is gonna have a distance restriction. Like, can you do worldwide gaming or is it restricted to some local area? If it's worldwide, it'll be badass.

[Bilbo]

I'm getting it when they make an emu for it, har har har.

[DoTheFandango]

They have PS1 and PS2 emulators, you just have to have the games.

Or the ISO's, but we won't talk about that here.

hi wadi.

[Pan]

I don't understand the point of two different screens...

[Liquid Blue]

I don't understand the point of two different screens...

Cash Cow.