With increasing stories of Fake DS lites beight bought and/or seized: http://shoppingm8.co.uk/wordpress/ http://whatconsumer.co.uk/forum/technology/2032-fake-ds-lite.html One begs the question: What about these is fake? All reports say they play and perform exactly the same as it's original, just there's some minor cosmetic differences. I'm beginning to think that they are Genuine DS consoles, re-cased in "Limited Edition" cases to increase their value. Am I on the money here or is there more to it than that?
You're on the money. I'm pretty sure that's exactly what is happening. They take a regular DS and just resell it as a genuine LE console when it isn't. Hence I wouldn't buy an LE DS from HK.
From those reports, the machines look and work exactly the same - the ONLY thing that is different is the power supply. Extra factory stock perhaps? It would be very hard to 'fake' a DS - sure, it's possible but probably not economically viable - they'd have to physically set up a factory and clone all of the parts. Getting hold of surplus stock from a legit factory would be much easier, and makes more sense. This would also explain the lack of an 'official' psu.
It seems these are real DS consoles and from what i understand they may be re-cased in various colours (real DS colours or not??) and obviously sold with unoffical psu's. I wouldn't think they make their own DS as it would probably be much harder then say making something like NES/SNES/MD..etc.
They probably aren't even fakes, Just imports that included some of the colours we didn't get in Europe/USA.
