Nintendo DS Europe launch date confirmed! :: News

Reported by Psythor on Thu 27 Jan 2005 19:39:28 UTC
Last updated by Psythor on Thu 27 Jan 2005 19:39:28 UTC

Nintendo have finally spilled the beans as to when Europeans will be able to send crudely drawn pictures of various aspects of the anatomy to each other wirelessly with their new handheld console!

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The DS will reach European shores on March 11th - that's the 20th (!) anniversary of Mikhail "Gorby" Gorbachev becoming leader of the Soviet Union.

The handheld, which features two screens- one of which is a touchscreen, will cost £99.99 - or in the rest of Europe, €149,99 - meaning that if you use pounds to pay, you're better off. It will presumably include the breathtaking demo of Metroid that came free with the US version.

Excitingly, Pokémon Dash, the first Pokémon game on the system will apparently be a launch game- we'll have more on this as soon as we hear something. Unfortunately, the critically acclaimed "Till Monkey simulator" does not actually exist.

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To get a full reaction to this news, we decided to ask our regular pundits, astronomer and evil UKIP patron Patrick Moore and former US President Bill Clinton.

I did not play games on that handheld.

Given the success of the recent probes to a moon of Saturn, I'd say that if Nintendo can cash in on this with some sort of badly thought out space gimmick, sales will rocket and Nintendo will be a long way into the black of both space and balance sheets.