Hi, my name is Basil (Je m'appelle Basil, ich heisse Basil) and I have a funny story about DS Lite.
I decided to get a DS Lite on the launch date, but couldn't find one (all the local shops were sold out). My fiancee laughed at how dejected I was feeling, as her opinion of video games is that they are seldom fun (but some are) and never important in any way. I managed to find one the next day, and, as is my wont, have been talking excitedly about it with her since then. Her response is normally to roll her eyes. She even complains to her girlfriends at work about it.
Yesterday, I took my DS Lite to her apartment to show her what I was fussing about. She opened the protective case, saw it, and her face lit up. She opened it, saw the simple, attractive screen and control layout, looked at me and said, "I want one."
Not five minutes later, we were in the car heading for the nearest Walmart. They had just gotten a shipment that day and I bought her a DS Lite and a copy of Nintendogs (Lab). When we got home she fired it up and I had a hard time pulling her away from it to show her some of the features she hadn't discovered yet. The shoe was on the other foot. Who's the obsessed one now?
She took it to work this morning, and had to face her friends. The result, within minutes, they were all raving about the cool look of the system and the cute puppy. They all want one too. (One of the friends is a 50 or 60 something Scottish woman, the other is a 30 something mother of two.) Nintendo definitely has succeeded in appealng to the non-gamer market with DS Lite.
It is worth noting that all of the above-mentioned people have iPods. Nintendo's best move was to only release the Polar White edition of DS Lite in the Americas.
I decided to get a DS Lite on the launch date, but couldn't find one (all the local shops were sold out). My fiancee laughed at how dejected I was feeling, as her opinion of video games is that they are seldom fun (but some are) and never important in any way. I managed to find one the next day, and, as is my wont, have been talking excitedly about it with her since then. Her response is normally to roll her eyes. She even complains to her girlfriends at work about it.
Yesterday, I took my DS Lite to her apartment to show her what I was fussing about. She opened the protective case, saw it, and her face lit up. She opened it, saw the simple, attractive screen and control layout, looked at me and said, "I want one."
Not five minutes later, we were in the car heading for the nearest Walmart. They had just gotten a shipment that day and I bought her a DS Lite and a copy of Nintendogs (Lab). When we got home she fired it up and I had a hard time pulling her away from it to show her some of the features she hadn't discovered yet. The shoe was on the other foot. Who's the obsessed one now?
She took it to work this morning, and had to face her friends. The result, within minutes, they were all raving about the cool look of the system and the cute puppy. They all want one too. (One of the friends is a 50 or 60 something Scottish woman, the other is a 30 something mother of two.) Nintendo definitely has succeeded in appealng to the non-gamer market with DS Lite.
It is worth noting that all of the above-mentioned people have iPods. Nintendo's best move was to only release the Polar White edition of DS Lite in the Americas.