Demand high for DS TV tuner in Japan

They loves them some TV on the go ...

It really prints money!

Those wacky Japanese are at it again!

4,000,000 x 62.....

I so need to buy Nintendo stock.

So I guess if I imported this then it wouldn't do anything for me. My PSP also has an option for seg1. I was wondering what that was.

Game Gear had this like, 12 years ago

TV on the most popular portable game console on the market... WHO CAN HONESTLY REFUSE THAT??? (at an accessible price, even though 62 dollars is more than what we'd pay for for a DS game)

And the Turboexpress too.

I am fairly certain that the 4 million pre-orders number is incorrect. There are only about 20 million DS's sold in Japan, so that would be saying that 1 in 5 people who own a DS pre-ordered the one seg tuner. Furthermore, since Nintendo stated they did not really do any advertising that would mean that these 4 million pre-orders were also spread by word of mouth....

hmmmm...

by the way, handy dandy babelfish states that your four million number comes from a poll in a magazine called "Fami" which I am assuming stands for famitsu that 18.5% people would like to purchase it thus where the 4 million number comes in.

....logic..... hmm..

Damn, I really want this and the camera.

TRAIN YOUR FACE IN MINUTES A DAY

Does it work in american DS?
Here in Brazil we use 1seg, like in Japan

I can imagine this never coming in any form to the UK because of the license fee and how easy it could be to bypass it and watch tv without it.

Isn't this retailer pre-orders, not consumer-preorders?

1-seg sucks though. you only get 13 channels (no national networks either, just local/regional channels) and the majority of the programming is cooking shows, variety shows, a couple of soap operas, and anime very early in the morning.

I don't know why the japanese would even bother to watch such junk tv programming on their DS. imagine paying $62 to watch nothing but PBS, or PBS-like programs.