Wal-Mart has a pre-order page for the Nintendo DS that lists the price as $199.82 with a promised delivery date of November 30th. With something as widely-distributed as the DS, leaks like this are usually indicative of the real deal, so assuming that there are no production or supply issues, it looks like the $200 DS is going to be in our pockets before December.

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A few of you have written in to point out that EB and some other people are tentatively listing the price at $200, too, which sort of tempers some of my iron-clad certainty that this is going to be the legitimate date, doesn't it? Now you kids get off my lawn.

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