Nintendo DS Release Date Moved?

galaxy300 writes "Apparently, the Nintendo DS is being released one week earlier than previously expected, on November 15th. Gamestop has updated the release information on their website, and there is discussion on the official Nintendo boards." Update: 11/10 16:52 GMT by Z : In the time it took for this story to crawl onto the games page, the Gamestop link was corrected and reposted with the original ship date. Hence the "?" in the original title. Sorry to get your hopes up.

Absolutely untrue

[Anonymous Coward]

Gamestop has changed its date back to 11/21. The Nintendo DS discussion board (which makes Slashdot posters seem downright intelligent) also admits today that it was all a mistake. The release date is 11/21, there is no doubt.

preorders

[Jane_the_Great]

Yup, it is true. Although, with Nintendo expecting to only have 1 million of them available before Christmas, these are likely to quickly sell out - especially given that many stores have stopped taking pre-orders.

I sent an email to EBGames asking about what kind of deal they might have going on a trade-in of a GBA SP for a Nintendo DS. If I could get a DS for ~$80, I'd take it. Nothing back from them as of yet.

Re:preorders

[Phisbut]

I sent an email to EBGames asking about what kind of deal they might have going on a trade-in of a GBA SP for a Nintendo DS. If I could get a DS for ~$80, I'd take it. Nothing back from them as of yet.

Since they're probably already out-of-stock and you didn't preorder it yet, chances are you won't be hearing from them.

Re:preorders

[Jane_the_Great]

Actually, I just got an email back. Thanks for believing you know everything and being incorrect on most!

Re:preorders

[ayersrj]

I ended up getting $48 for my GBA SP, but I traded it in last week to hopefully get a better price over at Gamestop. It'll probably be about $40 once the DS comes out. Not bad though considering new ones are going for $79.99 which means used ones will be going for $59-$69.

Re:Game prices

[galaxy300]

Again relying on Gamestop [gamestop.com], they've got Mario 64X4 listed at $29.99. A lot of the other games seem to hover between $29.99 and $50.

They also have the release date for the Mario game listed as 11/15. Hmmm...software and no hardware available? Either this is a major screwup at Gamestop, or something is afoot.

Re:Game prices

[MaverickUW]

Not really. I worked at a retail store when the X-box and gamecube came out. There were several games for each system out on the shelves before the systems were launched. Heck, I was able to buy extra controllers for my gamecube before it came out.

Re:Game prices

[Zangief]

I am suscribed to the mail list of nintendo.com. They send me eeer...advertising (not spam, because it was opt in) about their products.

They list Super Mario 64 DS as coming Nov. 21, so I guess that some shops get the game earlier, but are not allowed to sell it until Nov. 21

Re:Doesn't matter to me anymore...

[bic2k]

The GB and GBC ran at 13Mhz I believe, the arm9 processor should be able to emulate that with ease. After developers get the devkit for the DS working, it should be fairly easy to emulate GB games.

Re:Doesn't matter to me anymore...

[bluemeep]

You know, that actually got me wondering about those GBA flash carts... What would you say the odds are of them working with the DS? My knowledge of how they work is still fairly limited by their prohibitive cost. I'll always prefer to play the original game cart, but this could be a case in which I'd be willing to go with backups of my collection...

GBC emulation

[swerk]

I've been thinking about that too, but if you look at the different-shaped GBA and old-style GBC/GB carts, you'll see that a slot could be made to accept a GBA game but a GBC one physically wouldn't slide in. Nobody who's got their hands on a DS has revealed whether that's the case or not, at least to my knowledge.

I hope the physical limitation isn't there, so that a future DS card with emulation software on it could make classic GB/GBC games playable on the DS, but it wouldn't surprise me greatly if the

Re:Doesn't matter to me anymore...

[NanoGator]

" After finding out that the backwards compatability stops at GBA titles, I've lost a lot of interest in the thing. Most of my favorite titles are from the Gameboy and it's Color cousin..."

Err, why would you want a new system to play old games? I mean, if you don't want a DS, that's cool, but why would it being able to play games you already have a GB for suddenly make it interesting?

Re:Doesn't matter to me anymore...

[xenocide2]

For the same reason the ps2 is backwards compatible: I can sell the old one and only have to carry the new one around. Fortunately for me, I've already exhausted the DMG games, and the end is near for the GBA. The most appealing GBA games would be the ones that need what the DS is lacking -- link support. It would be great to play Advance Wars with someone who doesn't have a DS, but the link port has been removed in favor of new technology.

This is why Nintendo says its not a replacement for the gameboy. It

Remember

[SetupWeasel]

Nintendo allowed stores to sell the Gamecube early. I wouldn't be surprised if they did that again. As long as the games were in stores at the same time.

I mean how could it hurt them?

Odd release date?

[llevity]

Anyone else noticed how odd of a release date the 21st is? That's a Sunday. Considering most delivery trucks don't run on Sunday, they're either getting the system on Saturday, in which case they'll probably start selling it early (like the Gamecube sold early), or the 21st is a placeholder date, and they're not real sure when it's going on sale.

To clear things up, I think

[nicksthings]

The shipping date for the DS is indeed the 15th, which means they will probably arrive in stores on the 16th. HOWEVER, there is a street date of November 21st which is indeed a Sunday. Same goes for all of the launch games. I wouldn't be surprised if someone starts selling them next week...somewhere. Nintendo has yet to even give my store an interactive, which I had expected weeks ago. Oh well. We can all be using one soon enough!