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Almost 4 million people want to watch TV on their DS


We knew that demand for the accessory was going to be high, as the servers crashed shortly after Nintendo opened pre-orders online. After checking out the device, we thought the thing looked nifty as all get-up. Now, news is the thing is even more popular than we could've ever anticipated.

J Cast Business News is reporting that the device has received almost 4 million pre-orders in Japan, causing us to thoroughly question the world around us and wonder if anything we took for a certainty before is still the same. This is just crazy-hard to believe on our end, because 4 million people is, like ... a lot of people. That's a third of the population of Buenos Aires and the number of e-mails Bill Gates gets every day.

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Cameron Mulder1

11-20-2007 @ 12:10AM

Cameron Mulder said...

to tell you the truth. This would be perfect for me.

I hope they release something state side.

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Garst2

11-20-2007 @ 1:35AM

Garst said...

Why won't nice things like this here in the US? Come on Pelican! Mad Cats! Ohter?! We want a small portable TV this this!

Oh! and the post above mine is spam and inappropriet. Don't click the link. There needs to be a way to report post like that.

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B1gC723

11-20-2007 @ 1:49AM

B1gC72 said...

this is probably so popular because of the large casual gamer base. old folks and business people would love to watch TV on the go on the off chance they're not training their brains.

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jgoreham4

11-20-2007 @ 2:45AM

jgoreham said...

I bet I could get around paying the tv license tax here in the UK if I had this because the DS is a battery operated device!!! :D

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Saphion5

11-20-2007 @ 5:16AM

Saphion said...

Trouble is, if it ever came out over here it would have to have Freeview or something built into it seeing as the analogue TV is shutting down soon. I really hope it's possible, though!

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Jamesology6

11-21-2007 @ 2:45AM

Jamesology said...

I said it once and I'll say it again, its ugly. Another thing is that this won't work in North America.

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