They are ridiculously cute but if you were thinking of buying the £99.99 Nintendogs DS bundle for your girlfriend/cousin/mum for Christmas (like loads of my gamer friends were) it’s getting really hard to find these days and there’s no word from Nintendo as to whether or not they’ll be restocking stores before Christmas, but it doesn’t look good. Nintendogs by itself is sold out of most online retailers as well. MCV has quoted Nintendo UK general manager David Yarnton’s comment on Nintendo’s Christmas plans as “We have enough stock to meet demand”, “If someone wants to place an order for a Nintendo DS we can ship it.” and “That was the plan anyway, that we’d move from Nintendogs to the Mario Kart bundle.” Mario Kart isn’t quite the same target market though, is it?
You can still find the bundles in GAME stores as long as you don’t mind buying them with other games bundled in there. Today the bundles by themselves are going for around £150 on eBay, so if you see them in your local store there could be a nice little money-spinner there…
I got mine for my birthday over the weekend, thanks to a lovely and determined puppy-hunting boyfriend :) Review of Bobo the cute brown toy poodle coming tomorrow!
Update 8:40pm: Stuck my head in a few GAME stores on the way home and all the ones that were there last week are gone! They’re disappearing fast! Will keep my eyes open and let you know if I find any.
Update 16/12/05: Pink bundles spotted in stock! Keep an eye on this post for more store and contact details as we find them.
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May 2nd, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Last Christmas my Daughters ‘fairly new’ Nintendo DS developed a fault so I took it back to the store where I bought it. It came back from repair after 4 weeks with exactly the same fault. My daughter was getting numberous DS games from friends and relatives for Christmas so we didn’t want her to be without her DS. Absolutely nowhere had them in stock as there were mass shortages of all the DS’s in the UK. I ended up getting a new replacement a few days before Christmas as I went mad with them.
Here in the UK there are now big shortages of the Mario Kart game with the wii steering wheels, and also GTA4. Both of these games have just been released. Why don’t manufacturers make ‘more’ of the products at busy times of the year, when they know that there are always shortages, year after year. I can only assume that they do this for a reason?!?
Andy