Well, indeed it does cost more. With the price drop of the DS, the DS Lite has takent he original price of $150 (at least, so far we speculate) The funny thing is, even though the DS Lite is coming out, people in Japan are rushing to get ANY DS they could find, store owners are becoming desperate enough to buy off a USED DS with Box and manual for full price! Crazy japanese people o.o

It's really more a year and a half later but I know what you mean. It's not really a bad thing, Nintendo IS a company after all, and companies are made to make money. XD