Topic: Nintendo to Release Metallic Silver DS

[Nick DiMola]

A leaked Best Buy catalog reveals a new DS color.
 http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=16608

 Kotaku has revealed through a leaked picture from a Best Buy catalog (due to hit stores September 7) that a brand new DS Lite color is being released by Nintendo.    

According to the advertisement, a Metallic Silver DS Lite similar in color to the original DS will be available sometime next month at the standard retail price of $129.99. The DS dropped from its original $149.99 price in August 2005, meaning it's been more three years since the DS has had a price drop. However, sales of the handheld continue to surge despite being driven only by continued software support and release of new colors or promotional bundles.    

No official word on a new metallic-silver colored DS Lite has been issued by Nintendo.    

Carmine Red contributed to this article

[Nick DiMola]

Hmm not bad, I'm still partial to the white DS though.

[Ian Sane]

Thinking about it now isn't kind of funny to say "metallic" silver?  Silver IS a metal so it's kind of redundant.  If it wasn't metallic it would just be grey.

[Halbred]

I'll have to replace my DS Lite one of these times. The stylus barely stays in its slot anymore, the screen is scratched up beyond belief (damn you, Phantom Hourglass!), and there's a crack on the hinge's casing. I think I'd like silver. The original silver DS was pretty cool.

[Tanookisuit]

Mine is pink!

[Shecky]

However, sales of the handheld continue to surge despite being driven only by continued software support and release of new colors or promotional bundles.

"[sales surge] despite being driven only by continued software support..."  and what would one expect to be required??  Last I recall, software is a biggie

[AV]

its something i have to see in person in my hand to know if i like it.

i don't mind my white ds lite but this isn't bad.

[Kairon]

However, sales of the handheld continue to surge despite being driven only by continued software support and release of new colors or promotional bundles.

"[sales surge] despite being driven only by continued software support..."  and what would one expect to be required??  Last I recall, software is a biggie

You'd think, but have you seen the XBox 360 sales numbers over the past year?

[IceCold]

Thinking about it now isn't kind of funny to say "metallic" silver?  Silver IS a metal so it's kind of redundant.  If it wasn't metallic it would just be grey.

Yes it is. We call that a pleonasm.

[Kairon]

Wow. Just looked pleonasm up on wikipedia. Golly gee this English stuff is hard.

BTW, blame the PR people. They can call the DS colors whatever they want!

[TheFleece]

My DS was a replacement from Nintendo and has a dead pixel. I've had it for almost three years and the D Pad is slowly deteriorating and my birthday is in September- new Silver Metallic or however you want to call it is mine!

[Kairon]

I still have my launch DS Phat. Maybe sometime next year I'll upgrade to a Lite. Or not.

[PopeReal]

I still have my launch DS Phat for games that will scratch my screen.  My Cobalt Lite used for games that I won't touch the screen much.  Do I need a 3rd one?  No.  Will I get one?  Probably.

[Nick DiMola]

I still have my launch DS Phat. Maybe sometime next year I'll upgrade to a Lite. Or not.

Phatz4Lyfe

[KDR_11k]

150€ is too much for an upgrade like the DS Lite IMO.