25 April 2009 21:25 by James "Dela" Delahunty

Nintendo will target the Mother's Day holiday in North America (May 10, don't forget!) this year with the release of a new DS bundle on May 3. While the company has not officially announced the bundle, it was accidentally available for pre-order on a Canadian Best Buy website for a while on Friday, but was removed when it got attention.

According to reports, it will include a lime green-coloured DS Lite with a copy of the Personal Trainer: Cooking title. It will also include a "fashionable carrying case". The Best Buy website had listed it for CAD $159.99. Whether the bundle will continue to be shipped past Mother's Day or if it will just be available around the holiday remains to be seen.

Back in January, Nintendo announced that the Personal Trainer: Cooking title had sold 1.68 million units worldwide, following an agressive holiday season-2008 campaign.

Source: http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/17778.cfm

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This should create a short bump in sales but lime green is a bad color choice, imo.

Here's the box image:

Already posted.

Funnily enough, I'm buying my mom a DS for Mother's Day! There's a few bad things about this bundle though:

1. There's no way I'm buying my mom a cooking game. Not only do I doubt she'd enjoy it, she might think I'm trying to suggest she's a horrible cooker.
2. I'd rather not get that lime green color.
3. I'm buying my mom a DS-i-, not a DSL.

Seriously Nintendo, get with the times, and give us better options!

I could see a slap coming out of this

Is it known whether cooking games are relatively popular among moms? Considering that my mom, and most moms (right?) cook, I doubt they'd want to spend their free gaming time doing cooking games. They cook all the time in real life, why would they want to do a simulation game?

Speaking on this subject, do professional sports players like playing sports games of their sport? Do Nascar drivers play the Nascar games?

I must be the only one who likesthe color lol

^^ I think it's a nice color too, personally.

In any case, I'm pretty sure my mom has no idea what a DS is.

First, I need to buy one for myself*. Then, I would want to convince my mom that she actually wants a DS.

I mean, the DS. Not this bundle.