Nintendo today announced that the Nintendo DS Lite will launch in the US on June 11 for $129. Prior to this annoucement there was a lot of speculation that the system would cost $150-200. I figured that Nintendo would launch the system at $130 and drop the price on the Nintendo DS to $110 or $100. I’ve already seen the DS for as low as $120 at Walmart.com, so I think $100 is very possible in the next month or two. Anyhow, it’s just exciting for the DS Lite to finally be coming to America!

When I started this site a couple months ago, I planned on writing about rumors regarding technology. You know, Google, Apple, iPod, stuff that really gets the internet buzzing. So, I started writing about tech rumors and Apple annoucements and it was cool, but people didn’t really seem to care. Then, I wrote about Halo Online. That is when everything changed… (more…)

It seems like every time that a product or service hits it big - like the iPod, MySpace, or Craig’s List, hundreds of other companies or individuals try to copy the idea. Most of the time copycat products never do as well as the original did. Yet, even when the copycat product improves on the idea, it still doesn’t seem to catch on in the same way that the original did.

How does this happen? Well the reasons for copycatting are obvious enough. If something is successful, then people want in on the money and the success. Then, the obvious thing that people do is take the original product and make it better and cheaper. Conventional wisdom says that this should work. However, it doesn’t work and a whole generation or two of so-called “iPod killers” has proved this. You can’t just slap on new features and unseat the iPod or MySpace or Craig’s List. It just won’t work! (more…)