Nintendo admirers FIFA Point can assuredly let out a aggregate draft of relief. The DS Lite will accomplish its admission in North America on June 11. [UPDATE] The assemblage will be priced at $129.99, the aloft bulk as the accepted DS, not $149 as avant-garde reported. (GameSpot abjure the error.) Admitting the DS Lite has been arise in white and two shades of dejected in Japan, the handheld will alone be attainable in "polar white" for the US launch. This doesn't necessarily beggarly it will be connected until DS Lite owners get the blues--Japan's DS Lite barrage was aswell belted to one color, with the dejected hues afterward one anniversary later. Abounding gamers had speculated that the DS Lite would be arise alongside a high-profile DS game. Some targeted the barrage of New Air-conditioned Mario Bros., now appointed for May 15, as a acceptable befalling for Nintendo to activation sales of the handheld and the game, but that isn't the case.
In fact, no DS abecedarian are anon appointed for absolution during the week. However, the DS Lite barrage will activity one anniversary afterwards two potentially big sellers are released--THQ's Cars and Nintendo's Big Academician Academy. Nintendo UK would not animadversion on absolution dates for the DS Lite alfresco the US. Nintendo has not yet arise the fate of the accepted DS model. But, like antecedent Nintendo handhelds, collectors should crop calendar that it will acceptable be phased out in the abreast future. Those who can't adjudge whether to adjournment or not can get some admonition from GameSpot's Buyer's Guide on the DS adjoin the DS Lite.