Nintendo Announces Two New DS Bundles For Christmas

Andy Chalk

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Nintendo Announces Two New DS Bundles For Christmas


"Black Friday" will be a little brighter this year with the addition of two new Nintendo DS [http://www.nintendo.com/ds] bundles, each featuring a limited-edition color scheme and a popular game.

The first bundle, "Mario Red," will feature a bold red DS stamped with the familiar Mario "M," and will include the Brain Age [http://mario.nintendo.com/]. Both bundles will be released on November 28, and will sell for $149.99.

"Nintendo DS is both the most affordable and the most popular video game system in this generation," said Nintendo of America's executive vice president Cammie Dunaway. "These limited-edition bundles make great gifts for first-time Nintendo DS players and collectors alike."

Just what the world needs now: Another console from Nintendo that's immensely popular and nearly impossible to get. Despite Wii Fit [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/87568-Nintendo-President-Says-Third-Party-Publishers-Dont-Get-It] peripheral is guaranteed to be and now, in what's slowly becoming a holiday tradition, Nintendo has issued a warning that people who want one of these new DS bundles should grab them while they can. "Shoppers are encouraged to act fast if they want to get their hands on these limited-edition bundles," the company said in a statement.

No word on whether Nintendo plans to release something along the lines of a "Supermutant Green" model, complete with lifelike Eviscerated Eyeball Headphones (It's In Your Hair!) but I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

"Black Friday," by the way, refers to the day after the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, which is traditionally regarded as the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. The day is one of the busiest shopping days of the year, a fact retailers take advantage of by opening early and offering special deals and other promotions. The term "Black Friday" actually originated in Philadelphia in the 1960s, according to Wikipedia, as a result of the heavy traffic that typically occurred on that day, but more recently it's come to mean the period during which merchants earn their real profits - a reference to being "in the black."


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It would really be nice if they had a Scribblenauts bundle, or a Kingdom Hearts bundle. If Nintendo released one of those it might be a better incentive for me to dump my big ol' chunky original DS and get one of these fancy new ones.
 

jamesworkshop

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I always thought black friday was a refrence to how many people get crushed to death in the capitalist frenzy.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/29/wal-mart-blackfriday-shoppersstampede

http://www.nowpublic.com/world/two-killed-black-friday-shootout-toys-r-us
 

Graustein

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I've been seeing those for the last several weeks in EB Games stores in Australia. I never thought about it, but I figured that they'd be out elsewhere in the world as well. Or are they already out? It's weird, because I'm not used to the concept of us getting things before the US.

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*sees date on post*

Well damnit.