Bape puts its mark on limited edition DS Lites

It's not like there's any shortage of highly desirable DS / DS Lites out there, but we've all ideas this particular iteration will be one desired by many and acquired by (very) few. Japanese clothing company A Bathing Ape (Bape) has apparently signed on to put its spin on Nintendo's darling of a handheld, littering both a gold and white DS Lite with Milo characters. As for pricing, we'll just assume that those that need to ask should simply push this far from the forefront of their minds.

[Via DSFanboy]

[Ronald McD @ Feb 22nd 2008 11:02PM]

This is hot beyond belief.

[Rafer @ Feb 22nd 2008 11:05PM]

I never liked bape's styling theres just something about being clad in cartoon monkeys that doesn't push my buttons.

[Chino B @ Feb 22nd 2008 11:17PM]

lol this is gonna be so hype. Prepare for high prices.

[AKBlade13 @ Feb 22nd 2008 11:19PM]

Nice Pharell style cover.

Anyway, like somone said, it's going to be hyped beyond heck and totally expesnive...

But it does look nice.

AKBlade13

[rTwelve @ Feb 22nd 2008 11:39PM]

related note for the uninitiated:

A Bathing Ape is known as a Japanese hip-hop fashion brand that has been recently made popular in the US.

Kanye West and Pharrell are two such rappers that wear Bape's designs.

TEH MOAR U KNO

[AKBlade13 @ Feb 22nd 2008 11:44PM]

Did you know that Robin Williams and Clipse also wear Bape?

The more you know!

Anyway, I'm more into the Ice Cream/BBCs (which were co created by Pharell and DJ Nigo, the creater of Bape).

AKBlade13

[James @ Feb 22nd 2008 11:21PM]

Heck yes, I love my

Q3
...
S5

oh wait. I forgot the name :].

[phanbouy @ Feb 23rd 2008 12:12AM]

mario's mugshot. who knew?

[nick @ Feb 23rd 2008 12:35AM]

Bape isn't the only one coming out with a limited edition DS

http://www.highsnobiety.com/home/the_daily_news/archive/2008/february/20/honeyee_x_fragment_design_nintendo_ds_lite/index.htm

[bot @ Feb 23rd 2008 1:22AM]

I'd rather pay for a limited edition DS that has more RAM and can do WPA. All those fancy designs but still the same components.

[Ypoknons @ Feb 23rd 2008 1:39AM]

Fashion is important to some, though it might not be important to you.

[mahmud @ Feb 23rd 2008 1:45AM]

Watch me crank that nin-ten-do and supermario that OOH!

[dos @ Feb 23rd 2008 1:46AM]

I'd love to be in on the fashion scam, can you imagine the profits? You also get that warm, fuzzy feeling knowing you're not ripping off anyone who doesn't deserve it!

[jdmbo1 @ Feb 23rd 2008 2:08AM]

BAPE was cool maybe 3 years ago in Japan, the US is so slow to catch up with fashion trends, plus its over priced crap, you can get the same material fabric from any other brand, Nigo was smart enough to market a Cartoon money at about 300 a hoody, 150 a T-shirt. I donno about everyone else, but I rather get a white DS and put stickers I purchased from the dollar store on it, it'll look just as good as the BAPE version of the DS.

[mahmud @ Feb 23rd 2008 2:15AM]

haters get mad.

[jdmbo1 @ Feb 23rd 2008 11:54AM]

Hating because I don't want to bite on a 3 year old fashion trend? Please, I shouldn't even take your comments serious, especially from someone who thought "Watch me crank that nin-ten-do and supermario that OOH!" was a witty reply to this post. I bet your a 16 year old who would drop 500 for a hoody if it had little cartoon picture of a piece of shit on it repeated in rows; rocking it like its the next big trend. BAPE and Billionaires boys club designs look like they got the picture from the Microsoft word's clip art gallery and glued them to a shirt, ugly, horrible colors, but tweens love them.

[mahmud @ Feb 23rd 2008 9:16PM]

yea it was a play on the line "haters get made cause i got me some bathing apes" from the soulja boy song. in all seriousness, i don't think you're a hater. it was a joke. my line was witty if you knew the song. and i'd never pay 300 for any piece of clothing unless it was a badass suite. 16? i have a BS in biology and a BA in spanish, kinda hard to do that at 16. i really shouldn't have even answered.

[jdmbo1 @ Feb 24th 2008 8:12AM]

It's all good, I was just trying to emphasize the fact that these
horrible designs were sold to tweens, I apologize that I inferred
that you were one. I just find it ridiculous how this "special"
edition DS is going to be sold well above its value just because
theres a monkey on on it. Nintendo is just a greedy company pumping
over out priced special editions of their units every 2 weeks without
any major hardware changes.

[AKBlade13 @ Feb 24th 2008 11:36AM]

Okay I might be a teen and actually like some of DJ Nigo's designs...but I'll be the first (if not one) teen to say to you that they are rediculously expensive and I would not spend that much money one articles of clothes unless they dropped to around $20 max and even then that won't happen so I won't be getting Bape unless someone bought it for me.

AKBlade13

[Daza @ Feb 23rd 2008 3:08AM]

I must be the only one who absolutely hates Bape.

[monkfishbandana @ Feb 23rd 2008 4:33AM]

You are.

It's an adorable little cheeky monkey for Pete's sake! Look at his cheekiness! Cutchy cutchy coo!



*cough* Ehem.

[NG @ Feb 23rd 2008 7:44AM]

i also find this cartoon monkey very "gangster" too

[ssuk @ Feb 23rd 2008 7:18AM]

I wouldn't mind if they obmited media capabilities, but hell yes for a aluminium DS so long it uses the higher quality screens used in the DS phat. The DS lite ones are just... Ugh.

[Ray @ Feb 23rd 2008 11:27AM]

Hey what up?

[RoseGold @ Feb 23rd 2008 9:20AM]

i would buy it if i could find it here in the states................

[Mark @ Feb 23rd 2008 4:17PM]

Mario looks like he's stoned or something.

[Junior @ Feb 23rd 2008 7:16PM]

I want one

[quakingpig @ Feb 24th 2008 2:23PM]

The pricing of this NDS is goin to be around 160 US dollors.
However, just like other bape's limited edditions it's going to get
alot expensive if u r gettin one from ebay.