Apparently, you can't buy TDS anywhere anymore. I wonder why they stopped making them. Supposedly eBay has them for $60 and Amazon is selling as high as $80.
I think the point is that not enough people in the U.S. were buying it, so now it's out of print here. Which is really pretty crummy.
So THAT'S why I couldn't find it at Best Buy a few weeks ago. That would really suck, but with WiiWare Tetris coming out in the summer, I don't really care anymore.
I was waiting on someone to hint at this. Innocent understocking mistake... or evil Nintendo scheme to sell more Wii titles later on.
When I first read this message I looked like this: So in reply to this message, I've searched for the prices of Tetris ds in stores (here in the Netherlands, Europe). Here it costs 'only' 45, but in dollars that would be +/- $70,65. So probably the prices are so high because of the weak dollar
I hate how your games and consoles are so much cheaper than ours. 15 is like budget price for a current-gen game.
Tetris DS sales chart for weeks 1-99 after release: http://www.vgchartz.com/swlaunch.php?ga ... S%20-%20DS the sales from around week 17-99 are very consistent, and according to the Tetris DS page on the same site there have been 400,000 sales since week 99. to me it seems like a bad decision to stop production in the US. sure they're going to release tetris on Wii, but why not let people buy both? should i buy another Nintendo product without any guarantee a popular game (which i may or may not be interested in when it's released) will be available when i want to get it? what if i want to wait for a price to go down instead of up?
Likewise, weren't Tetris and Tetris 2 available on Game Boy after Tetris & Dr. Mario and Tetris 2 respectively came out on Super NES? Then you're in the same boat as people looking for Harvest Moon (SNES), Chrono Trigger (SNES), Rez (PS2) (before a third party fronted money for a reprint), and other games that have since become collectible. Wait until after you're dead; by then, the copyright should have expired.
this is wrong just on a philosophical stand point. I mean having tetris not readily available for a nintendo handheld is just sad.
it will happen in Japan too. one day Utada Hikaru will swap her TDS cart with Planet Puzzle League, and a couple hours later she'll be looking for her teeny tiny TDS cart, and she won't be able to find it, and she'll look in every store and won't find a new copy, and she'll be very very sad. (saddest looking Utada i could find)
Months later, I just realized something: From the release (1Q 2006) to the first post in this topic took about two years. I would imagine that such a two-year license is intended to let TTC update the guideline, such as removing rewards for kick T-spins.
Could it not just be that 2 years is a standard planned length of time for when sales will most likely no longer merit the production of the game?