TOKYO -- What happens to all of those millions of original Nintendo DS and PSP consoles that flooded Japan a few years back?
Many of them seem to be finishing out their lives here, in a bin in the Sofmap store in Akihabara. In this hospice for portable game machines rest stacks of bulky original model DS and PSP units, sold without accessories, with big scratches in the paint or broken touch screens, and without any guarantee that they will work. And yet the DS and PSP are still so popular in Japan that these bring in about $30 each for the wheezing DS Phats and an amazing $60 for the broken-down PSP-1000s.
Still, times have definitely changed since the era of the legendary Worst Nintendo DS in Japan, when one of these nearly-destroyed machines would have fetched $100.
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