Child's Play receives a huge donation from Nintendo

[boatofcar]

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From DS Fanboy...

Nintendo sent out an avalanche of Nintendo DS handhelds and games to the Penny Arcade headquarters last week, donating the towering collection to Child's Play. The gamer-run charity has been donating toys, games, and other gifts to children's hospitals since 2003. Since then, the altruistic group has raised millions of dollars for its partner hospitals.

Nintendo made sure to provide something for everyone with its donation, delivering DS systems in every color and handing out hundreds of copies of Nintendogs, Big Brain Academy, Mario Kart DS, and many other titles. Gabe posted photos of the mountainous shipment and assured readers that the DS Lites will find their way to the gracious hands of kids in children's hospitals soon.

[Auxilla]

That was really awesome of Nintendo.Thats all I can say.

[Jorpho]

No denying it was a grand gesture and good publicity, but... do you think they were leftover refurb units maybe?

[Half Japanese]

No denying it was a grand gesture and good publicity, but... do you think they were leftover refurb units maybe?

I'd think Nintendo to be a little classier than that. Besides that, everything they donated is probably tax-deductible (but I'm no accountant).

[ProgrammingAce]

No denying it was a grand gesture and good publicity, but... do you think they were leftover refurb units maybe?

You know what? Even if they are, i don't think the SICK CHILDREN will care. It's a grand gesture by anyone, my hat's off to nintendo

[Half Japanese]

As it turns out, I just read that Nintendo didn't donate them at all, but sold them at a deep discount, according to Kotaku. I'm sure someone will spin this one way or the other, but it won't be me.

Linky-loo.


edit: I meant to add this completely unrelated bit...do the grammatical errors at Kotaku get on anyone else's nerves? They seriously need a full-time editor to make sure that what their staff has posted is legible and comprehensible. I can't tell you how many times I've had to re-read sentences there to try and figure out what the author MEANT to say.

[retroman]

I agree...way to go Nintendo. Way to give back!

[PSXferrari]

Not a big fan of the charity myself. Any charity that gives toys to dolls that come to life and kill people is not a worthy cause in my eyes.

[Kuros]

Not a big fan of the charity myself. Any charity that gives toys to dolls that come to life and kill people is not a worthy cause in my eyes.

WTF are you trying to say here?

[Bronty-2]

WTF are you trying to say here?

reference to the "child's play" movies.

[MrRoboto19XX]

Hats off to Nintendo, to me this is why they never came across as an evil empire, or anything of the sort. But thats me.

Either way, this was indeed generous of them.

[Oobgarm]

Well, if anyone was wondering where new copies of Tetris DS have been lately, there's your answer.

[jajaja]

Good thing done by Nintendo! Good adverticing too hehe

[FAN8228]

That's awesome! another reason why Nintendo rocks!

[cyberfluxor]

Kudos to the big N. Penny-Arcade is always awesome.

[ProgrammingAce]

[boatofcar]

Did you make that graphic ProgrammingAce? That's awesome!

[jajaja]

Haha nice

[ProgrammingAce]

Did you make that graphic ProgrammingAce? That's awesome!

I did, but a friend gave me the idea.

[Darren870]

You should make him diving into this:



... or maybe just laying on it.