The first release will be the first movie in the series, Mewtwo Strikes Back, released over here as Pokémon: The First Movie. It will be released as a download for just 500 yen. Strangely, the rest of the releases -- four more movies -- won't be released as downloads (at least, they aren't planned to be for now), but as MicroSD cards preloaded with one movie each for 2,980 yen ($27) Lucario and the Mystery of Mew will be released as a special-edition package containing a DSVision card for 4,280 yen ($39).
This actually isn't AM3's first experiment in selling Pokémon video for play on Nintendo handhelds. The DSVision creator previously sold Pokémon movies on SD cards for play on their Advance Movie Adaptor.
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8-14-2008 @ 3:23PM
RupeeClock said...
Lucario is getting special DS flash cart merch?
Awesome.
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8-14-2008 @ 3:38PM
Flagg said...
Sounds cheap to me.
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8-14-2008 @ 6:00PM
David D. said...
2980 yen for a movie? On a cheap MicroSD card? Sheesh!
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8-14-2008 @ 8:12PM
ajwalker said...
I'm with you David;
That seems really pricey to me.
Watching movies on my DS is a pretty good idea, especially since I used to do that when I had my PSP, but *NOT* at $27 USD each movie.
I'm not into homebrew on my DS but it seems you could snag a Pokemon DVD off eBay and homebrew it onto the DS for a whole lot less than that.
8-14-2008 @ 9:45PM
aliquis said...
Btw, of course with a flashcart and regular content you won't be stuck with movies on a weird low quality format on bunch of microSD-cards you didn't needed either ...
I never get this "try to sell non standard format of information on non standard media", either sell DVD/BluRays or non-DRM open-format movie clips or don't sell at all.
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8-14-2008 @ 10:50PM
ramuji said...
August 20
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8-15-2008 @ 1:27AM
aj said...
You couldn't pay me to watch "Pokemon: The First Movie" again.
Did anyone else groan loudly every time a song started playing the first time you saw that movie? I did. And I was 12.
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8-15-2008 @ 11:17AM
Creciente said...
It would be just lovely if we could get a full video / audio playback features with the newest redesign of DS or it's successor. The movies are really expensive.
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8-15-2008 @ 11:31AM
aliquis said...
You already can?
8-15-2008 @ 11:35AM
Creciente said...
Built-in. Without the need of any extra devices to buy. Also, the video releases rarely get released outside of Japan.
8-15-2008 @ 1:07PM
BPM [MSN: BPMdotEXE @ hotmail.com] said...
Actually, the Advance Movie Adaptor used SmartMedia, not SD. Just a minor mistake there. :P
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartMedia
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