REPORT: Nintendo Begins Shipping DS! November 05, 2004 by: Casey Ayers Two weeks until launch... The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is reporting that Nintendo began shipping Nintendo DS units from their North Bend distribution center to retailers yesterday. This comes as exciting news for Nintendo fans, eagerly awaiting the November 21st launch of the new portable console. Nintendo expects to sell one million DS units in North American, and two million units worldwide. It will retail for $149 in the USA, and will include the bundled application Pictochat and a demo of forthcoming title, Metroid Prime: Hunters