Shield your eyes: Premium DS Lite spotted in the wild

by Chris Greenhough { Sep 15th 2008 at 7:18PM }

Remember those Club Nintendo "Premium" DS Lites that were revealed back in June? Well, Nintendo has now sent out the limited edition systems to the 3,000 lucky winners, and Japanese blogger Hatimaki decided to torture us by smugly photographing his Premium Silver model, which just so happens to be unbelievably, blindingly shiny. But pfft, like we care! Seriously: just imagining the finger prints on that makes us feel totally okay about not owni -- gaaah, who are we kidding?

If you're feeling flush enough, a selection of these have already appeared on eBay, priced around the $500 mark. It's an investment ... probably.

Gallery: Limited Edition Lites: A History of Sadness

[Via Kotaku]

Tags: club-nintendo, limited-edition, premium, silver

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

elsng @ Sep 15th 2008 8:08PM

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

lorddshadow @ Sep 15th 2008 8:17PM

or y'know you could just buy a ds and a bunch of good games...

matthew cobb @ Sep 15th 2008 8:42PM

SHINY!!!!

wakarukaya @ Sep 15th 2008 11:21PM

I'm confused. Isn't that shiny thing on the right just a Onyx DS with a cover? I have the same thing.

I don't think the silver DS is that reflective, but I could be wrong.

supa_s @ Sep 15th 2008 9:31PM

it's actually black not silver

elsng @ Sep 15th 2008 10:02PM

Yeah it's a fugly two-tone. Imagine a completely shiny silver DS.

BlackDS @ Sep 15th 2008 9:39PM

OMG!!!

It's so beautiful!

Must look away ... can't look away ...

Nintendo North America ... doushite???

Doushite??? (hurt look)

:(

aj @ Sep 16th 2008 2:27AM

Yo' DS has been pimped.

(Insert collar flip here)

No, seriously, that's hideous. I'm glad for the winners, but to win it didn't you have to prove that you purchased a certain number of games? So.....all 3,000 of the winners already had DS's. It just seems sort of pointless, really. Why not just have a contest where you could win 500$ so no one has to go through the pain of making an eBay listing for the things?

Pre-Pumpkin @ Sep 16th 2008 6:46AM

I love the Pikachu one and the one with Turtwig. ZOMG. I love it.

supa_s @ Sep 16th 2008 7:51AM

elsng: it's not two-toned. It's black. nothing silver about it.

supa_s @ Sep 16th 2008 7:51AM

elsng: it's not two-toned. It's black. nothing silver about it.

?kIlLeR BuNnY? @ Sep 16th 2008 12:58PM

looks brown to me!
But the touchpad is black

Frastoglegnia @ Sep 16th 2008 1:32PM

From the original Kotaku piece:

"There are only 3,000 of these cover plated 'Premium' DS Lites: 1,000 Premium Silver; 1,000 Premium Black; 1,000 Premium Rose. These are actually the standard-in-Japan 'Gloss Silver', 'Jet Black' and 'Metallic Rose' DS Lites treated with a special metallic plating cover."