Apprently so, seems that the shortage of DS systems in Japan has spawned few stores and yahoo auctions, to be selling DS system for over 200 usd, and few pure white systems going for as much as 360 unit!! Looks like brain game commands started ths mess.. The full story and pics can be found on Kotaku's site.
why not? It's actually getting games worth a damn now, which means people will want them. Then you see the psp with their many ps2 ports, and then an exclusive like Liberty City Stories being announced for a port to the ps2 and laugh.
http://ir.take2games.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=183286 just milking the GTA series a little more...
Well they tried $178 dollar system with an ISP contract; maybe they can start giving them away in cereal box's as prizes.