We here at Game|Life have been keeping tabs on Nintendo's dedicated apology page (Japanese), and there's an excellent one up today. I'm not gonna translate it word-for-word; just know that Nintendo, from the heart of their bottom, apologizes once again for the fact that you cannot, technically, buy their product.
However, they point out that even though they had promised 450,000 Nintendo DS Lites for the month of March, they are in fact on track to ship 550,000 of them, with an additional 700,000 units earmarked for April. If you think that this will result in you getting a DS Lite: you moron. I don't mean anything personal by this, only that if you think you stand a chance of buying one of these things any time soon, you are a stupid idiot. For one, recent reports indicate that the population of Japan is still 127,417,244 and rest assured that every one of them is gonna buy one of these suckers before you can.
While they were already apologizing, another bit of news was tacked onto the document: five pieces of anticipated productivity software, originally scheduled to ship this month, have been bumped back to dates in April. "Kanji Sono Mama Rakubiki Jiten", a dictionary in which you can write Chinese characters using the stylus to look them up, is delayed to April 13, five days before my birthday and now you know what to buy me. And a series of translator software that lets you travel to foriegn countries and communicate by touching will ship by the 27th.
In related news, import house Play-Asia said that this week, the Lite units will finally begin shippin' to those who preordered them back in January. The Ice Blue and Enamel Navy colors will ship first, followed by the considerably scarcer Crystal White later in the week. Knowing this, I am pretty sure you can guess which color I ordered. :(
Just so we can be reminded of what we're missing, here is a sneak preview of my interview with Animal Crossing designer Katsuya Eguchi:
I mean, holy hot damn would you look at that screen quality.
