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It's DS Mania all over in Japan! On the eve of the DSi's launch, IGN took a tour of Tokyo's biggest retailers and came to one conclusion: the DSi is going to be pretty much impossible to come by Saturday morning if you haven't already pre-ordered.
The same thing could be said about the DS Lite a couple of years back, of course. But the big difference is the whole "pre-order" bit. While major retailers like Bic Camera and Yodobashi Camera didn't taking pre-orders for the DSLite, most of the Bics and Yodobashis we checked had been taking pre-orders and weren't planning on holding same-day sales.
So does all this pre-order business mean you won't be able to turn your browsers to Famitsu.com and the like tomorrow to see pictures of Japanese people waiting in line? While many of the shops that are normally featured in the line-up reports at those sites are pre-order only and won't have lines, we did find a couple of shops, including the Asobit City shop in Akihabara, that are line-up only.
The Bic Camera in Yurakucho, which you might remember as the location of some of the uglier scenes during the PS3 launch, is doing both pre-order and same day sales. The pre-orders have already sold out, and we were told to probably expect a line.
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