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Nintendo UK boss David Yarnton reckons we've no reason to moan about the ridiculous price of the 3DS in this country, despite paying nearly ?100 than our colonial cousins across the pond.

"It's still really good value. The fact it's a 3D entertainment device ? you can't get anything that's 3D at that sort of price without having to wear glasses as well. Get that one in.

"If we go back a few years, when we first launched the DS in 2004, 2005, people looked at us and said, wow, this is unusual, it's got a touch screen. Who's going to buy this at whatever price it was at the time?"

It was ?100 David, have you forgotten? Or didn't you want folks to be reminded how much more expensive the 3DS is?

Source: Eurogamer

Nintendo has announced today that the 3DS will launch in Europe on March 25th with an initial price set by retailers. Pre-orders are already appearing and the price is varying between a ridiculous £219 and a slightly more ridiculous £229.

Meanwhile the 3D handheld will be released in North America March 27th for $249 - which is around £155, so we'll have no truck with folks saying the European price is just about VAT.

Games on this side of the pond are £30-£40.

There were lots of other details announced, but given the stupid price of the handheld and games I really can't be bothered. I'm going to give my baby son a cuddle instead.

If reintroducing WiiWare demos wasn't enough, Nintendo has now released a Sonic Colours demo for DS. What a fun-filled week!

To access the taster you must use the DS Download service on the Wii's Nintendo channel, transferring it your handheld with DS Download Play.

As with DS Sonic games before it, Sonic Colours is to remain strictly 2D, presumably to appease fans of the originals.

Personally, I don't care what anyone says: I loved Sonic Adventure 2.

Nintendo has announced that, as of Friday, demos of WiiWare titles will once again be available for download.

The service makes a comeback with tasters of Furry Legends, Jett Rocket, ThruSpace and Zombie: Panic In Wonderland, and will update and refresh on a regular basis.

Unlike the WiiWare demo trial period Nintendo set up last year to boost sales, which ended in January, the new service should be sticking around.

Reports have surfaced today of the technical specifications behind Nintendo's latest handheld console.

According online reportsthe 3DS will be powered by two 266MHz ARM11 CPUs, a 133MHz graphics processor, 4MB of VRAM, 64MB of RAM and 1.5GB of flash storage.

Many devices get by with just one ARM11 processor so the 3DS is sounding like a pretty powerful portable if the source is correct.

Source: IGN

The latest promo video for arcade racer Blur takes a swipe at Mario Kart. I don't know, these young upstarts think they own the place.

Despite Blur's shiny graphics, is it really so differing from the classic Nintendo game?