European DS Cases to Go Cardboard?

If you’ve been living in Europe over the past few months, you’ve probably noticed that certain DS games have been selling out every week. Nintendo understands that too, so they’ve announced that a list of select titles will be shipped in cardboard boxes until December.

The affected titles:

Super Mario 64
Nintendogs Chihuahua & Friends
Nintendogs Dachshund & Friends
Nintendogs Labrador & Friends
Mario Kart DS
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Tetris DS
Nintendogs: Dalmatian & Friends
New Super Mario Bros.

While this does suck for everybody who loves those durable DS jewelcases, it will allow Nintendo to save some money and get copies of the games into stores at a faster rate.

This has only been confirmed for Nintendo Benelux, but it is strongly suspected that the rest of Europe will follow suit. Those in the affected areas can write in to Nintendo Customer Service and receive cases by the beginning of next year.

Nintendo goes cardboard for some DS game covers
(Image courtesy of Joystiq)