Nintendo to officially open shop in Korea with DS

by Blake Snow { Jan 10th 2007 at 1:45PM }

Ruliweb has posted several images of the Korean-specific DS soon to be released on January 18. It should be interesting to see how well the DS, and upcoming Wii, can ultimately do in the MMO loving country. And could Nintendo be as ambitious for Korea as Microsoft is for Brazil?

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[via Kotaku]

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

NintendoFanbot @ Jan 10th 2007 2:10PM

This might sound off-topic, does anyone know how well iQue did in China?

It's been a long time since the brand-name (it now includes iQue DS) launched, so I'm wondering how Nintendo is doing in China.

Lijik @ Jan 10th 2007 5:14PM

If I recall, there will be a Maple Story port for the DS coming out in Korea. If it works well enough it could very well spur a portable MMO craze in Korea on the DS.

wiiboy2007 @ Jan 10th 2007 5:56PM

isnt south koria like a first world nation why they so behind with consoles its not like its north korea or something i find that strange

idioteraser @ Jan 10th 2007 7:46PM

Nintendo has never released data on the IQue sales.

South Korea for the longest time had laws banning imports of Japanese products including game consoles.

No game console ever had a prescense in South Korea. North Korea is the same.