Nintendo DS All In One Bundle $164.64

[Yolner]

This is going to be a good item for fleabay around xmas.

 

[Fant]

Does TOYSRUS take preorders? They always seem to get em first.

 

[shadow9d9]

"GC Advanced has reported from the Tokyo Game Show that the PSP will retail for $349.99. "

A Nintendo oriented company said a price target and you believe it? Give me a break... If it is official, why haven't MAJOR sites like gamespot or gamespy reported it? Do you know why? Because it isn't official...

This "deal" is not a deal anyhow.. why is this in this forum? It RETAILS for 150... and some more stuff for $15... NOT hot...

 

[Alexstarfire]

Hey, I never said it was a definant/official price. I have also seen others saying it could be as high as $500, although the lowest I've heard was the same price as the DS, $150. I don't believe it'll be $150 though. I mean think about what kind of stuff they are putitng into that little handheld and all the time that it's taking them. They'd lose so much money even if they sold 10,000,000. The handheld would simply cost to much to make. That's why I don't think $350 is that far off. We'll never know until it actually comes out though.

As for why the MAJOR sites don't have it yet just think about this. Where does most of this information start from, it isn't from any MAJOR site. It's always from a site like Slashdot or the Inquirer, not saying that they are always right though. There are reasons why they don't tell MAJOR sites, they don't want the people to know. I'm not saying that they told that site either, maybe they have some connections or something.

BTW, what is wrong with a Nintendo company telling us about something they heard at a game show convention? What you don't trust the competition?

 

[imported_supdog]

"Sony has addressed battery life publicly at E3, stating a maximum of 10 hours and a minimum of 2 hours of runtime, but has not yet released a benchmark of the average expected battery life. "

This is from the Final PSP Retail System Specs at ign
IGN LINK

 

[Alexstarfire]

See, that's a good source of information. I guess the question is though, what are they doing to get a max of 10 hours? Did they just leave it sitting there while it was on or where they playing a game? That minimum on 2 hours I guess we can assume it was while they were watching a DVD.

 

[TerryMathews]

Two things:
One, read the quote carefully

Standard battery life, which has never been a part of the retail or developer specs, are again left off the list -- Sony has addressed battery life publicly at E3, stating a maximum of 10 hours and a minimum of 2 hours of runtime, but has not yet released a benchmark of the average expected battery life.

If it's not on the spec sheet, it's still not official. Our Sony rep told us last week that the minimum battery life is now under two hours. I don't know, I guess you could say she was lying, but I don't know why a representative of Sony would claim the PSP was weaker than it actually will be...

Two, the maximum battery life is for games that load all their data directly into RAM and don't run off the disc. Think like Tetris. GT4 Mobile, you can be assured, will have the same run time as a DVD movie considering how much it will have to spin the disc.

 

[shadow9d9]

"Hey, I never said it was a definant/official price. "

You said you could CONFIRM the price... that means you know for sure, 100%... As I suspected, you are just contributing to rumors and using it as fact..

 

[Alexstarfire]

Yes, as in I can confirm the price that I saw. There is a difference you know. I never once said I can confirm what the MSRP is now did I? Please stop trying to flame other people, it is not necissary or wanted in the forums. Simply telling me you think otherwise should be good enough, but ya just gotta push it.

It doesn't really matter that much anyway. If anyone really took it that I meant it would absolutely be that price then I'm sorry for I didn't mean it to sound that way.

 

[shadow9d9]

Guys, I can CONFIRM that UFOs exist! Go to ufowatch.com(made up for this example)...

SEE!? I can confirm that people think that UFOs exist!


Didn't you know that confirming something means that you could confirm that someone else thinks something?





Seriously, you said,
"I can confirm that the PSP will cost $350, that's right MSRP $350 at release. "

That means that you know for a fact that it will be 350... not that one nintendo source that people have never heard of saw something... You were full of crap... and I called you on it... there was NO POINT in you saying that you saw it on ONE site...

I could create a website right now that says that the DS will be changed to the retail price of $700 and then say to this board that I could confirm it by linking to the site...

 

[Alexstarfire]

Man, Shadow9d9 you got some issues to work out. I didn't mean to say it just like that. I really was trying to get at the fact that I had also seen the price of $350 mentioned. As for your web site, I believe there is a difference in it being a personal web page than like a bigger company web site. If you want to feel better I can go edit the first line in the post. Would that make you hapyp? Your sentence/question is worded so strangely that I can't even understand the point your trying to make with it.

I believe I have every right in the wrold to say I saw it on that site. You can't stop me from saying that cause it's called freedom of speech. I don't think you have a right to deny that to anyone considering your this n00b member. You've spent your entire time on this one thread, how sad can that be? Please stop with this flaming before you get banned. It says in the rules not to flame people.

 

[Nikodem]

Lots of fanboys on this thread. Anyways, not to feed the flames, but here is an eToyChest article talking about the price in Yen, it says that if it stays that price it will be over $300 USD.

 

[xobitx]

The PSP will debute in Japan for $350 and be launched in the US 6 months later at $299, twice the cost of the DS. They wont sell as many as they would like probable 1 to every 5 DS's sold. Until they drop the price then they will sell better. Nintendo will win the overall war due the fact the cost of the DS is very small compared to the PSP. Sony will be battling cost constantly just to break even, Nintendo already is selling a version of the DS in china for a while now called the ique or some other. Its a N64 controler all in one console with av out something like the all in one atari controllers, etc. The shrunk the N64 chipset onto one chip and stuffed it in a N64 controller and its rumured to be the exact chip in the DS and the iQue thing sells for $60 or so with no lcds. So you know NDS price will always be half that of psp and attract more buyers and developers. but i think i will still get a PSP but not for 300 maybe 200. I also plan to get a couple ds's for the kids when they drop to $99 next christmas. I just prefer a larger screen than Nintendo is offering the should have made it a VR type thing one lcd for each eye now that would be awesome a vitual boy /advanced/64/cube, maybe next gen.

 

[TooRude]

wow someone actually dared to say the psp has the same amount of features. first off I was unaware that the PSP had touchscreen instant messaging capability, a wifi system, and stylus setup to allow so many different future applications to be brought to life that... ya I just creamed my pants.. sorry. Any way.. my point is, all that sony has ever done is take nintendos base and just pump it with steroids in the graphical dept, all they care about is bigger faster etc. Nintendo has always been the driving force for innovation(dont say ps1 with cd games because nintendo opted out in full knowledge of using them too). Look at the psp, they made a 7 inch screen so they could say wow look its a big screen, and you can watch dvds on it. why spend possibly 350 on a PSP to watch dvds when online you can find great deals on a portable dvd player with more region capabilities and a better screen for maybe 50 dollars more? Even if your a big sony fan you have to give it to the Nintendo R&D team for their visions of future game systems. because its not weather it looks amazing or how big your screen is, its weather or not its FUN to play, and I can bet hands down the Nintendo DS will give people one of the most enjoyable experiences on a hand held ever yet thought imaginable. (I cant wait to be in a lecture class messaging a friend with a skribbling of a characature of our professor, or joining up wirelessly to play heads up against them)

 

[Arkitech]

Originally posted by: AlexPton
even if the PSP is $100, I'd rather get the DS.

Nintendo makes better games, the DS is much more novel and creative, and I can't even play my damn old PS1 games in the PSP.

That is the most insane statement I've heard on this site in a long time. If Nintendo was making good games they would'nt have such a hard time making money on the Gamcube.

 

[Fant]

Wow this thread has gotten out of hand. Yes nintendo has been more innovative as far as hardware. However in the software area, they have their talented team of developers but they no longer have the cream of the crop in 3rd party developers. Sony and Microsoft have all but bribed all 3rd party developers to make games for their consoles. Nintendo makes great hardware and great innocent games. When u want a serious game you have to look to 3rd party and this is where Nintendo's battle will be. This was why the Gamecube failed. You get tired of the cutesy games after awhile. Nintendo has always kept their systems priced moderatly and same goes with the DS. Frankly I think a device like the DS with dual screens, touch capability, wifi, and 3d games is amazing for $150 considering that a pda with the similar hardware cost 2-3 times as much. As for the original deal this thread was started on....$164 is not such a great deal as I'm betting these will be available at plenty of stores retail. Nintendo is gonna cash in heavy on this xmas season.

 

[pxc]

I'd rather have a PSP for $199 than a DS for $149, but that probably isn't going to happen. The PSP owns the DS in virtually every hardware spec, but it's going to cost a lot more.

That said, the DS is a lot more than just a GBA with another screen and touchpad (ignoring the wireless features for now). The graphics are amazing and the new StrongARM9 is a huge upgrade over the GBA. See the graphics here: http://forums.nintendo.com/nin...ge.id=91106&page=1

I was skeptical of the DS at first (and disappointed that the GB and GBC games weren't compatible), but it looks like it's going to be an awesome system. I'll probably grab one next month. My only gripe is that I wish it had ONE higher resolution screen instead of 2 low resolution screens. :|

 

[VietDude]

I'd rather get the psp over the ds, playstation has way more quality games

 

[abaez]

Originally posted by: Arkitech

Originally posted by: AlexPton
even if the PSP is $100, I'd rather get the DS.

Nintendo makes better games, the DS is much more novel and creative, and I can't even play my damn old PS1 games in the PSP.

That is the most insane statement I've heard on this site in a long time. If Nintendo was making good games they would'nt have such a hard time making money on the Gamcube.

Insane? The number of systems sold is not a measure of the quality of games on a system. Metroid Prime and Zelda are two of the best games to come out on ANY system recently (please try to quantify that statement as insane.) Along with Viewtiful Joe and Eternal Darkness and most recently Paper Mario. Granted some of those aren't made by Nintendo, but they are exclusive to the console, which is basically the same thing.

 

[shadow9d9]

N64 + GC = 5 rpgs... PS1 + PS2= 40+... Why would I ever buy a Nintendo system?

 

[Alexstarfire]

We not even trying to persuade you. Just voicing our opinion. At first I was very dissapointed by the GC. I got it for the new Super Smash Bros game, as I'm sure a lot of other people did. I was kind of mad at the fact that it wasn't nearly as good as the first game. However, after I played Tales of Symphonia I was extremely satisfied. If you want any real quality RPG games don't look into 3D consoles, almost all of them suck, except for Tales of Symphonia and Star Ocean 3. The SNES, GB, and GBA have all the RPGs you would ever need. I still play games from the SNES because they have excellent game play. People now-a-days are too hung up on graphics. It's rather sad. I mean, the only game type where graphics really matter are FPSs. FPSs suck on every console except the N64. The controller was just right for any game, not sure why they changed it.

 

[TerryMathews]

Originally posted by: Arkitech
That is the most insane statement I've heard on this site in a long time. If Nintendo was making good games they would'nt have such a hard time making money on the Gamcube.

Go read a stock report; Nintendo is making money hand over fist. You've made the very common mistake of equating mindshare with profitability.

 

[abaez]

Originally posted by: shadow9d9
N64 + GC = 5 rpgs... PS1 + PS2= 40+... Why would I ever buy a Nintendo system?

How many of those 40+ RPG's for playstation are actually *worth* playing. You also forgot the GC is the best systems for a group of people.

 

[corinthos]

all i gotta say is... SEGA!

 

[shadow9d9]

So... Alexstarfire... ready to eat your words?

PSP is OFFICIALLY $185... I cannot STAND people who use rumors as fact!