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OffTopic > DS to sell early??

#29093 - mymateo - Thu Nov 11, 2004 10:45 am

I was going to list this in the DS section, but it has nothing to do with developing for the DS... unless someone has a flash card made already?? (I'd pay money just to touch it)

Anyways, I was snooping around the Gamefaqs forum earlier, and it seems that there is some speculation about the DS launching early. Personally, I think it's a little hoaxy, but several people have claimed to get a letter from Gamestop saying they will ship DS units to their pre-order customers on or around the 15th. Here's a link to a relevant story from a fairly reputable site:

http://ds.ign.com/articles/565/565138p1.html

I personally don't think the DS will ship early, but I can't help but get a little excited at the prospect. Your opinions are welcome, any official info to support or deny this rumor is helpful!

#29106 - Abscissa - Thu Nov 11, 2004 5:13 pm

What that might be is what I've seen places do a few times before. They'll ship it a few days before the release date so that it arrives for you *on* the release date. This way there's more reason to order online, otherwise people would figure, "Why order it online and get it a couple days late, when I can just pre-order and pick it up at the store on the day it comes out?"

Other speculation:
1. Retailers are known for making up release dates (particularly when they don't have an official release date, although that's not the case with the DS)
2. Maybe the people on gamefaqs are just bullshitting and IGN is just relaying what they said without much regard to reliability of the info.
3. The emails they received may have been sent by someone pretending to be Gamestop.

#29113 - zazery - Thu Nov 11, 2004 7:28 pm

Gamestop did have the release date as 11/15/2004, however they corrected this with a reply to everyone that pre-ordered them.

Here on the second post down it explains everything.